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Writings with Arctic Tundra
Claudio Filho had his Ars Bioarctica residency at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in June 2025 where he wrote with places, things, and beings.
Guest post | Claudio Filho | 22 August 2025
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Notes on rewilding the botanical gaze
Agáta Marzecová spent two weeks in the Rewilding Cultures residency in June 2025. She explored ways to rewild her ecological sensibilities through walking, field notes, and attentive observation of plants.
Guest post | Agáta Marzecová | 15 August 2025
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Exploring the Atmospheric Biosphere
During their Ars Bioarctica residency in May 2025, Frouke Wiarda and Judith van der Elst delved into the fascinating dynamics of the atmosphere.
Guest post | froukewiarda | 9 July 2025
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On the Colour of Melting Ice.
Laura Lowe spent a few weeks in May – June 2025, at the Ars Bioarctica residency conducting artistic research for her ongoing body of work "The Strcutural Colour Paintings". Lowe was gathering visual material of melting ice and embedded 'black carbon' pollution through the iridescent colours these materials reveal under polarised microscopy, as well as, by capturing the ice's surface with gelatin prints. She travelled across a thawing landscape of glaciers, tundra lakes, cascading waterfalls, and the Arctic Sea collecting her samples of ice.  
Guest post | Laura Lowe | 19 June 2025
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Learning from the Mountain
Dancers Gesa Piper and Paula Kramer were in Ars Bioarctica residency in February 2025. They focused on outdoor movement practice in relationship to temperature, cllimate, light and the rotation of panet Earth, partly accompanied by photographer Venla Helenius.
Guest post | Paula Kramer | 9 May 2025
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Ars Bioarctica selections made for 2025–2026
12 transdisciplinary artists and artist groups have been selected fo Ars Bioarctica residency for 2025–2026.
26 March 2025
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Ars Bioarctica open call for 2025–2026
We are happy to announce our yearly open call for Ars Bioarctica residency program at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station. Deadline for applications is 19th January 2025.
17 December 2024
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The changing nature of field studies
In November 2024 Ellen Bjerborn spent time at Kilpisjärvi Biological station, observing the changing nature of field studies in a new era. Much of the field work at the station is no longer done by human hands but rather by machines, and the staff at the station function to service the machines that monitor and collect samples.
Guest post | Ellen Bjerborn | 13 December 2024
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Wind Machine
In the fall of 2024 Lauri Linna studied the wind and its life, observing the arctic atmosphere at the Rewilding Cultures residency at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station.
Guest post | Lauri Linna | 29 November 2024
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Carbon Synthesis
Donna Franklin, Tracy Hill and Sarah Robinson were in Ars Bioarctica residency at Kilpisjärvi in September working on their long-term Carbon Synthesis project.
Guest post | Donna Franklin, Tracy Hill & Sarah Robinson | 31 October 2024
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Ars Bioarctica selections made for 2024–2025
16 transdisciplinary artists and artist groups have been selected fo Ars Bioarctica residency for 2024–2025.
3 June 2024
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Ice and soil as an open skin layer
In March 2024, Jean Danton carried out a field study on permafrost in an area of peat mounts (palsas) around Kilpisjärvi. He extracted soil and ice samplers while explored the ecological network in interaction with the permafrost thawing process. Permafrost is, in some way, a bioindicator of both atmospheric temperatures and social dynamics of the globalization; a trace of impermanence from a distant latitude. A geo-somatization that reveals a dispossession, an epochal swerve.
Guest post | Jean Danton Laffert | 17 April 2024