Field_Notes – The North Escaping groups include professionals and practitioners from various backgrounds, who will travel to Kilpisjärvi for two-weeks of intense field work. The groups are hosted by Erich Berger, Till Bovermann and Elizabeth McTernan.

Jacek Smolicki spent two weeks at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station within the North Escaping residency. During his stay, he engaged in a series of listening excursions, soundwalks and field recording sessions exploring past, present and future soundscapes of this unique environment.

We are looking for interns to join our small team of four for autumn, spring and early summer.

Antti Tenetz is a visual artist situated at the interface between media and arts, biological art and urban art. During his residency in Japan, Tenetz will explore symbiotic, other-than-human relationships.

Yvonne Billimore joins the Bioart Society as the new Artistic Director whilst our long-term senior producer Piritta Puhto starts as our new Managing Director.

The Critical Garden Collective spent two weeks in residency at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station searching for bipolar mosses and working with hybrid creatures, named Cybryonts.

Aino Johansson spent three weeks in Ars Bioarctica residency working on her soil and forest related projects with chromatographies, butoh dance, forest mapping, activism and environmental education.

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.

In these times of hurries, constant haste and immediacy, there are still places where you must arrive slowly.

aRzu and Maria Lepistö are having their North Escaping residency at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station. They are planning to create an augmented sound expedition and will present their work at SOLU Space on 24th of May.

Three open calls for Ars Bioarctica residency programmes at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station. Deadline for applications 2nd June 2023.

aRzu and Maria Lepistö are having their North Escaping residency at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station. They are planning to create an augmented sound expedition and will present their work at SOLU Space on 24th of May.