"Climate Just Worldings" meets "Water is (non)life"

During the spring of 2024, we are holding weekly interdisciplinary research seminars that are organised and led by professors in the research profile areas. A new theme is discussed each term. 

WRS welcomes all SKH teachers, senior researchers, PhDs, MA students, and an invited public, WRS are SKHs primary context for encountering the research happening within and in relation to SKH.

WRS provides a regular time and space for internal and external researchers to come together to share a variety of practices, perspectives and approaches, to identify affinities and differences, to raise common lines of enquiry, and to engage in critical discourse and intersubjective dialogue across an array of themes, subject areas and artistic disciplines. 

Read more about this seminar serie here: Spring 2024: Wednesday Research Seminar series 

"Climate Just Worldings" meets "Water is (non)life": generative dilemmas in documentation

Who: Lina Persson and mirko nikolić
Subject area: Film and media / Climate art research 
Host: Hanna Husberg

Lina Persson and mirko nikolić have both carried out VR funded artistic research projects with focus on environmental and climate issues. During this seminar they will reflect and discuss challenges, possibilities and dilemmas in documentation and dissemination of climate art research. The context in which they will address the topic is that of an inter-institutional space of funding, knowledge creation, sharing and exhibiting. At the same time they are embedded within a naturecultural space of relations, commitments and accountabilities. Their respective practices operate in these spaces through specific mobilisations of discourses and concepts of responsibility, representation, rights, autonomy, sovereignty. The approaches share concern with practice as a form of document in its own right.
 
Bios

Lina Persson makes situated interventions through narrative storyworlds and animated worldbuilding. Her art often brings some conditions attached that transform the routines of the environments she enters, as a way to “world” them. She works through the science fiction genre, exploring how science and mythology shapes the future and how human storytelling and technological ideology are shaping our planet. Lina is pursuing her doctoral research Performative Storyworlds at SKH and has just rounded off the Research Council funded research project Climate-Just Worldings.
 
mirko nikolić works through text, place-based performance and cultural organising - often in collaborative constellations - oriented towards climate and environmental justice. The principal focus of his/their activity has since 2015 been on tracing the impacts of so-called “mining booms” in North and South-East Europe, and alternatives from below. mirko holds a PhD from the University of Westminster and is finalising the Swedish Research Council funded artistic research project "Water is (non)life: de-extractivist poetics in the semi-periphery," hosted at the Institute for Culture and Society, Linköping University.

Schedule

13:00 - 13:05 Welcome
13:05 - 14:15 Introduction by Lina Persson and mirko nikolić 
14:15 - 14:45 Pause 
14:45 - 16:00 Short video meditation by Lina Persson followed by discussion amongst the presenters and the audience