Welcome to a lecture traditional reindeer herding in exploited forest landscapes, in conjunction with the exhibition Eight Degrees / Contemporary Art on the Forest at Bildmuseet. The speakers are Lars Östlund, Professor of Forest History, and Elle Eriksson, PhD candidate in Forest History, both from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
Free admission, limited seating
Language: Swedish
The event is a collaboration with SLU.
Eight Degrees / Contemporary Art on the Forest
The exhibition brings together contemporary art exploring our complex relationship with the forest, ranging from ideas of an inviolable intrinsic value to the conception of something to be utilised as an economic asset or a space for recreation. What is a forest? And what pressing questions about it are relevant here and now?
Participating are Matti Aikio, Gerd Aurell & Micael Norberg, Malin Arnell & Åsa Elzén, Toms Kokins, Norrakollektivet, Elia Nurvista, Uriel Orlow, Edith Marie Pasquier, Jörgen Stenberg, and Lena Ylipää. Through photography, film, sculpture, drawing, textiles and sound, they invite us to reflect on the forest, observed and depicted from various perspectives and with diverse experiences. Their works provoke questions about tradition and the future, forestry practices, land conflicts, biological diversity, and the forest as a sacred space.
