Hannah Wiker Wikström travels to Kilpisjärvi mid-July for The North Escaping residency. During her time in Kilpisjärvi, she will continue her ongoing research on post-industrial heritage in a Nordic context through the prism of fetal-maternal microchimerism and the troubling of time and scale.

Neal Cahoon writes about his experiences in the North Escaping residency in Kilpisjärvi Biological Station.

Bioart Society member artists will be having their residencies from July until October.

We're looking for a new addition to join our team in October. Deadline for applications is 26th August 2024.

Lau Kaker is an artist and curator from Belgium based in Helsinki, Finland, working with projects exploring the collective and fictional meaning of home, shaped by their research on the concept of belonging. They'll dedicate their time in Japan to their ongoing research on interspecies communication revolving around the indigo color tradition.

16 transdisciplinary artists and artist groups have been selected fo Ars Bioarctica residency for 2024–2025.

Christine Hvidt travels to Kilpisjärvi over the weekend for The North Escaping residency. During her residency, she will be approaching Kilpisjärvi as an entwined network of electrical bodies.

The Rewilding Cultures network partners issued 8 grants to support mobility, projects and experiments which conribute to the rethinking of mobility and cultural exchange in novel ways.

Second Order was one of the groups of Field_Notes – The North Escaping. Second Order group members embed themselves into the other groups with the aim to document their work, gain insight into their approaches and offer counter perspectives. The aim is to critically look at the groups methods and practises of the field, which might include the encouragement to step out of predefined schemes or even to violate traditional field norms in order to experiment with new ideas.

Hilde Methi and Neal Cahoon are currently in Kilpisjärvi in The North Escaping residency, following up some curatorial threads from their previous work together.

Antti Tenetz writes about his experiences in the Tokyo Art & Science Research Residency. Tenetz travelled to Japan to have his residency in Decembr 2023.

In March 2024, Jean Danton carried out a field study on permafrost in an area of peat mounts (palsas) around Kilpisjärvi. He extracted soil and ice samplers while explored the ecological network in interaction with the permafrost thawing process. Permafrost is, in some way, a bioindicator of both atmospheric temperatures and social dynamics of the globalization; a trace of impermanence from a distant latitude. A geo-somatization that reveals a dispossession, an epochal swerve.