Art Alliance Arctic South in conversation with curator and UmArts Director Ele Carpenter
This event is held in collaboration with eXpression Umeå at Umeå Arts Campus. Short presentations will be followed by a conversation that the audience is welcome to join.
Topics include: the role of academic institutions in local and global cultural ecologies, how to thrive as an artist on the ‘periphery’, what the pandemic has done to feelings about location and to the art world(s), FOMO, how to find one's tribe and how get your work out there in a changing art world.
A-A-A-S (Art Alliance Arctic South) is a newly formed artist collective born out of a vibrant artist community scattered across a vast expanse of Northern Scandinavia. A-A-A-S are supported by The Nordic Culture Fund in the initiative Mapping the twist, a project enabling knowledge exchange between artists and curators on the 63rd latitude and above, and the dissemination of emerging art from the area.
We are joined by Ele Carpenter. Carpenter is a curator, a Professor of Interdisciplinary Art & Culture and the director of UmArts- the new Research Centre for Architecture, Design and the Arts at Umeå University. The centre aims to create an exciting interdisciplinary arts research environment in the visual arts, architecture, design, and creative studies, in partnership with Bildmuseet and within the regional context of Northern Sweden as well as nationally and internationally.
Participating A-A-A-S artists:
Heidi-Anett Haugen (NO)
Dragos Alexandrescu (RO/FI)
Lotta Lampa (SE)
Madelaine Sillfors(SE)
Linnea Therese Dimitriou (SE)
About eXpression
We are a business incubator that enables the development of driven creators with ideas, innovations or companies in the artistic, cultural and creative industries. We offer efficient and innovative methods, a creative coworking environment and world-class prototype labs. Together, creative industries are showing the way to the sustainable growth of the future – creative minds unite.
