Collaboration and contempt: Birds Eye Views
The Conference of the Birds is a transdisciplinary, polyphonic and socially engaged art project with collaborations between artists,…
Can people and birds be friends?
As part of the exhibition We love seagulls at Tromsø Centre for Contemporary Art in 2023, The Conference…
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…
More-than-human art for endangered birds
Artist Kåre Grundvåg and artistic and general manager at Tromsø Centre for Contemporary Arts, Camilla Fagerli have together…
The Conference takes shape
The Conference of the Birds was initiated and its foundations shaped by artist Eva Bakkeslett and drama pedagogue Heli Aaltonen in…