wait and hear in kilpsjärvi

— listening, extending, performing

2023 — Till Bovermann, Alicja Staniszewska, Bart HM Vandeput, Jan Christian Schulz, Joshua Le Gallienne, Mari Mäkiö

How do we deal with the retreat of the North as we know it? How do we navigate the ever-approaching uncertainty and wickedness of change?

During Field_Notes: The North Escaping, the Wait and Hear group proposed an open exploration based on listening. It extended an invitation to encounter, experience and comment on Kilpisjärvi — the region, the lake, the settlement, the living — as what we refer to as Organism(s), through which a manifold of consequences and influences of human intervention, their diffusion, and their interrelations are starkly noticeable. While we spent time in the field and critically analyzed our surroundings, ourselves, and our interrelation to the different forms our surrounding presents itself, we tied to resist the urge to immediately engage for as long as possible.

Instead, we gathered on fells listening to wind, stones and water. We observed the hustle and bustle of the border town with all its social and cultural clashes. We engaged with various stakeholders that are entangled within the Organism(s) themselves.

Our gathered insights unfolded into collaborative experiments and in-situ interventions, offering possibilities to encounter, provoke, comment, and interact with our environment.


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Field_Notes the north escaping, 2023