This is the blog for the ArsBioarctica residency. For more info on ArsBioarctica residency and Finnish Bioart Society go and visit http://bioartsociety.fi/
There was a small incident in Kilpsijärvi that was widely published in the national Norwegian Medias. Link: http://www.itromso.no/nyheter/krim/article528738.ece
The Finnish Medias ignored this story totally? Not a single sentence was written even in the local papers? Is Kilpsijärvi not interesting for the Finnish audience?
My week passed by to fast. I meet a lot of nice people and taped many interesting interviews.
This service was quite good in predicting northern lights:
http://www.storm.no/nordlys/
It´s a Norwegian site that obtains it´s information from the Norwegian Spacecentre , Unis and University of Alaska. I also downloaded an application called “Aurora Buddy” for my phone. It´s should wake me when aurora activity is discovered on my cordinates. Let´s see if it works?
Meet by Northern lights on my way to Kilpisjärvi. The spectacular magic dance on the sky lasted for several hours. I shoot 4 timelapse sequenses and it took me 4 hours. The sky’s where clear and it was very cold. When I had finished packing my gear I discovered that I could not feel my toes. My toes where effectively cured by the sauna at the Kilpisjärvi station.
Looking forwards to more clear cold nights.
I’m back home now, although in my mind I’m still in Kilpis…. not only to look back at all work initiated, partly completed and partly unfinished, but mostly to look back in regret. Wish I could stay longer! Wish I was still there! Wish I didn’t had to leave at all…
Winter was truly coming when I left, while autumn has just started here in Belgium. Driving south felt like driving the wrong direction – back in time. Here in Hoegaarden, looking at the green grass outside and all the green leaves still attached to the trees, I cherish another wish: I WISH TO GO BACK!
Today I tried to catch a reindeer, but all I got was his nose….
The very inspirational and also exhausting Field_Notes workshop is almost completely digested by now… This week I have visited the local school, have been to Kautokeino, seen the first snow, studied my Circumpolar Studies course, made many new entries for the FOOD RELATED platform and even made plans to come back in July to give a workshop at the Riddu Riddu festival! In between all these activities, I did some old-school homework with fabrics and a needle: two new logo’s for my Arctic picnic blanket that express my appreciation for being allowed to work here.
During a field trip that was part of the Field_Notes workshop, I catched a lemming!
There are many of these small rodents this year, it is almost impossible NOT to see one when you’re out hiking. Usually they disapear as soon as possible in one of their holes, but if you are lucky no entrences nor hiding sides are available for the creature. Then you have the possibility to catch it! This is how to do it:
Run as fast as you can after it, with big steps but with a good focus on the direction it is heading. Be prepared that it can change direction quicker than you, so try to predict its movement. BELIEVE that you won’t miss when grabbing it, KNOW that you won’t let it escape if it reacts nervously. Then just jump towards the ground, more or less throwing your body downwards and catch the animal with both hands. Enjoy a good look of it!
Today I gave my first FOOD RELATED workshop….. in Small Projects in Tromso. It was nice. Just a few people showed up, but we have enjoyed ourselves, inspired each other and made a very usefull mapping while discussing the online platform.
And…. we ate almost al berries that I picked in the Kilpisjarvi-backyard yesterday!
I am working on my cultural probes these days… creative questionnaires for a workshop that I am hoping to give for Saami. This is all part of my artistic PhD, more specifically a project called FOOD RELATED. If you want to know more: www.foodrelated.org
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