In 1896, the first paper on greenhouse effect and carbon dioxide was published, where Svante Arrhenius counted carbon doubling in the atmosphere leading to a 5-6 degree warming. 1909 John Henry Poynting named the phenomenon described by Arrhenius as a greenhouse effect. 1938 Guy Stewart Callendar recalculated Arrhenius’s greenhouse effect theory. He found evidence andContinue reading “A Short History of Climate Change”
Category Archives: Research
Humans Move: Bodies at Risk
Jessie Brett – Dance artist: On Saturday 20 June 2020 we did something new, we performed live from 4 countries Ethiopia, Spain, England and Wales online. It was a new experience and experiment for all of us. We were surprised that it felt like performing live, just that we couldn’t hug or meet after theContinue reading “Humans Move: Bodies at Risk”
Talking Dance
When dancing; how much are our minds wondering? How much of our understanding of the world is built on how we fantasized the world to be as we grew up? We are often told to be in a ‘now’ from a performative perspective, but what is this ‘now’ built of? How do we construct itContinue reading “Talking Dance”
KARLSØYA E MIN PLASS, IKKE KAPITALISTAN SIN DASS
Performance tonight at Karlsøyfestivalen, 19:30 Norwegian time Remix of MITT OPPRØR MOT OPPDRITT / RAGE AGAINST THE FISH FARM MACHINE and a work in progress for my piece in OUT OF URGENCY. THIS IS MY LAND KARLSØYA E MIN PLASS, IKKE KAPITALISTAN SIN DASS! Watch it here: Forsiden Photo: MITT OPPRØR MOT OPPDRITT / RAGEContinue reading “KARLSØYA E MIN PLASS, IKKE KAPITALISTAN SIN DASS”
OUT OF URGENCY: Æ elske måsen!
Da e vi i full gang med MOVING BARENTS: OUT OF URGENCY Det e mye klaging på måsen for tida, så hær kommer en dans til ære for måsen! Menneskan Menneskam
Mordor vs Nangijala
The Trolls are gathering The earth has for long been a battle field for the clashes of light and shadow, hope and dreams, despair and destruction. Every light with its shadow / every shadow from its light. The trolls has for long been pushed to the side. Just like the other spirits of the earthContinue reading “Mordor vs Nangijala”
DACHA PROJECT
Susanna Voiushina & Dmitrii Melnikov (Arkhangelsk | RUS) Many of us (especially at the time of Covid) were trying to escape from big cities and move to the countryside.We are willing to live closer to nature, feeling it makes us healthier and happier.We prefer to stay in our own house with some small garden insteadContinue reading “DACHA PROJECT”
The Most Polluted City in Europe
Jessica Bateman writes for the BBC about young people living in Skopje in North Macedonia, where pollution levels are so high that they all want to leave. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200701-skopje-north-macedonia-the-most-polluted-city-in-europe
OUT OF URGENCY: THIS IS MY LAND
OUT OF URGENCY THIS IS MY LAND I am super happy to be part of this project, feels like a perfect fit! Last year I premiered my art-activism -project MITT OPPRØR MOT OPPDRITT which can be translated to RAGE AGAINST THE FISHFARM MACHINE, a little bit about MITT OPPRØR MOT OPPDRITT: Cross-border art and activismContinue reading “OUT OF URGENCY: THIS IS MY LAND”
Want to Slow the Climate Crisis? Don’t Use Single-Use Plastics.
Annie Leonard writes in The Nation The fossil fuel industry is in trouble and has a sneaky idea for saving itself: It wants to produce lots more plastic. Many people don’t realize it, but almost all plastic is made from fossil fuels. So the same oil and gas companies whose products have overheated the planetContinue reading “Want to Slow the Climate Crisis? Don’t Use Single-Use Plastics.”
Coronavirus is just a dress rehearsal for what is likely coming next
An Australian perspective on the crisis state of the world by Crispin Hull writing in the Canberra Times: Just as the bushfire crisis was a flaw-exposing dress rehearsal that helped Australia deal with the COVID-19 crisis, the COVID-19 crisis should itself be a dress rehearsal for possibly worse things to come. And the most recentContinue reading “Coronavirus is just a dress rehearsal for what is likely coming next”
Tomi Knuutila: Dances with Datafeeds
Information has been used in artistic practises for quite some time. For simplicity’s sake in this post I mostly talk about information (or data) visualisation and sonification (changing data to sound). This should be thought of as a smaller subset of a bigger, amorphous field of creative practices, often referred to as Information Arts, orContinue reading “Tomi Knuutila: Dances with Datafeeds”
Mindfulness
Yesterday John asked me to post some thoughts I had shared with Tanja and him via Email. They had just informed us all the residency I would present to next week had been cancelled because of coronavirus. In my Email reply to the news, I wrote: I remember a dream I had many years ago,Continue reading “Mindfulness”
“The power game in the Arctic” on Swedish Radio
Ryska Nikel riskerar att bli giftig spökstad
Den lilla ryska staden Nikel, som ligger bara några mil från norska Kirkenes, håller på att tömmas på folk. Detta då stadens nickelfabrik ska läggas ner, en fabrik som gjort staden till en av de giftigaste platserna i hela Arktis. Vår korrespondent Jesper Lindau reste dit för att prata med de kvarvarande byborna. – Situationen är mycket allvarlig.Continue reading “Ryska Nikel riskerar att bli giftig spökstad”
Woolly Mammoths – Over a dinner
Over a lovely dinner with two of my best friends a few days ago we had a wide discussion about climate change. They both work quite specific with climate change, in two different ways. One of them has worked within Greenpeace Nordic for the last, lets say 15 years, and the other is running aContinue reading “Woolly Mammoths – Over a dinner”
Weather Blankets
People Are Knitting, Crocheting, and Weaving Tangible Records of Temperature Changes In an effort to make the ongoing effects of climate change more visible, needleworkers around the globe are creating temperature blankets and scarves that track local weather patterns. Earlier this month, writer Josie George began an expansive Twitter thread about the project, motivating others to share their similarContinue reading “Weather Blankets”
Tony Rice-Perttunen
Tony will be running a session with us in Oulu in March. He has set two tasks for the artists in preparation for his workshop. 1 Devote a few minutes, at least weekly – preferably daily – in concentrated intention.Your intention will be to call upon your deepest creative self.You must call it with allContinue reading “Tony Rice-Perttunen”
Keith Larson
Keith is a scientist based at the Abisko weather station in Northern Sweden. Here he shares some of his vast knowledge on Arctic climate change.
Marit Shirin Carolasdotter
https://dotraproductions.com/ Marit ran a dance class each morning in Luleå and gave a presentation of her work, focussing on her residencies in Japan and her current project: Humans and Soil
Dancing on the Margins of Climate Change 