The Conference of the Birds
The Conference of the Birds is a transdisciplinary and socially engaged art project exploring creative ways to coexist with birds in a more-than-human world. The project reflects on different bird cultures in the Nordic countries. We examine our shared human-avian histories to create new lines of thought and action to ensure the continuance of our co-existence in an uncertain future.
Nests
The project consists of a series of site-specific collaborations between artists, bird researchers and local partners called Nests. The artworks have hatched out of these collaborations, exploring topics relating to birds and their habitats. The works are exhibiting in the participating countries or together as a group show.
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Österängen konsthall
Österängen konsthall and Jönköpings Fågelmuseum 1 June — 1 September 2024 The exhibition at Österängen konsthall and Jönköping…
Singing as numerous as space, measureless as noon 8. 11. 2024 – 2. 3. 2025
The exhibition Singing as numerous as space, measureless as noon at the Museum of Fine Arts, Liberec in…
How words can change the life of birds.
In this video PhD Katri Aholainen talks about her research and the impact art can have on bird…
Birds in Finnish literature
For the Winged Words Nest the Finnish literary scholar Karoliina Lumma has contributed with an essay that was…
Sensing Birdpoetic Worlds
Jessica Sunnebo’s Master thesis from 2023 explores the Swedish poet Nina Södergren’s (1924–2015) poetry through an ecocritical and…
Chorus sinensis at Hanaholmen Cultural Centre
Chorus sinensis was exhibited at Hanaholmen Cultural Centre in Espoo, Finland 15. March – 1. September 2024. The…
Ahoo Ahoo – a film in the making
Selvær is an island of the Helgeland archipelago on the coast of North Norway. For centuries the islanders…
I-the Duck
Mesmerized by the magical qualities of eiderdown Eva is making an eiderdown suit inspired by the “sleeping pyjamas”…
Collaboration and contempt: Birds Eye Views
The Conference of the Birds is a transdisciplinary, polyphonic and socially engaged art project with collaborations between artists,…
Birds Eye Perspectives / Fugleperspektiver
How can art and science work together to make room for birds? In Norway, we have lost more…
Varelse / Værelse
31 August – 2 September 2023 in Gothenburg, Sweden Guided bird and landscape architecture walk and workshops in…
Can people and birds become friends?
As part of the exhibition We love seagulls at Tromsø Contemporary Art Society (Tromsø kunstforening) in 2023 The Conference of the Birds held an interdisciplinary seminar on how to coexist with kittiwakes.
How can artists and more-than-human perspectives be included in future social planning?
As part of the symposium Can People and Birds be Friends in Tromsø Centre for Contemporary Arts Eva…
An endangered bird seeks refuge in the city
Tone Reiertsen, Researcher at NINA, talks about the kittiwake and why it has fled from the bird cliffs…
It’s all about coexistence
Artist Irene Kaltenborn talks about her work with the kittiwakes as climate refugees and asks: What is a…
Fuglan Veit – how can research, art, traditional knowledge and dialog be united?
Associate Professor Bente Sundsvold and Professor Anniken Førde from the University of Tromsø talk about the interdisciplinary seabird…
What kind of consideration and dialog do you have to have as an architect and designer when the customer is a bird and the client is a municipality?
Architect Kjeld Nash and artist Lawrence Malstaf talk about the process of planning, designing, communicating and mediating between…
How a book saved the whooper swans in Finland from extinction
PhD Katri Aholainen talks about her research and the impact art can have on bird conservation through the…