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Artist Elena Mazzi will give a talk on Complex Geographies<\/em> sharing her\u00a0doctoral research exploring the territorial and cultural landscapes known as the Polar Silk Road. Asking – how can posthuman visualities bring to light the deep environmental, social, political, and economic changes that are currently affecting the Arctic regions? As the Arctic seas become increasingly navigable due to global warming and the consequent melting of the ice sheet, access to new resources is drastically enhanced, as promoters now get to lay their hands on no less than 20% of the world\u2019s oil, gas, uranium, gold, platinum and zinc reserves. The aim of this research is to develop research-based speculative encounters between geopolitics and visual culture in relation to the Polar Silk Road commercial project, by considering how exploring through art the current political conflict might slow down or drastically transform this plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arctic Regions are complex to define from a geological perspective and subject to rapid changes. Here, intricate relationships between natural resources and humans are interwoven. That is why art practices are fundamental in analyzing the entanglement between economy, geopolitics, ecology, and mobility, using an inclusive approach to different perspectives that go beyond dominant cultural groups and challenge colonial legacies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mazzi, through her own work, aims to investigate new tools to visualize the complex relationship between geopolitics and geography, taking into consideration that Arctic regions have devoted particular attention and care to environmental issues and sustainability in the last decades. With this project, she wishes to bridge the gap between the academic world and artistic communities, by opening transdisciplinary spaces for encounters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The researcher and artist will be in dialogue with Maria Luna Nobile. This talk will be the occasion for a dialogue organised in the framework of the work of the Research Group Designing the Contemporary City<\/a><\/em> at Ume\u00e5 School of Architecture and Elena Mazzi residency at UmArts studio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elena Mazzi<\/strong> <\/a>(1984) is a visual artist, working with specific geographical and socio-political contexts. Her poetics deals with the relationship between human being and the environment in which he\/she lives and with which he\/she must reckon on a daily basis. This analysis, which often follows an anthropological approach, investigates and documents an identity which is at the same time personal and collective, and gives rise to forms of exchange and transformation. She studied History of Art (Siena), Visual Arts (IUAV, Venice) and Fine Arts (Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm). She is currently a PhD candidate at Villa Arson and Universit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d’Azur, Nice. Her works have been displayed in many solo and collective exhibitions all over the world. She attended several residency programs, and she is the winner of various art prizes. In 2015 she started to lead workshops for young artists, teachers and general public in collaboration with Institutions, Schools, Academies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maria Luna Nobile<\/a><\/strong> is an Associate Professor at Ume\u00e5 University in Architectural and Urban Design at Ume\u00e5 University School of Architecture, she is architect and PhD in the same field. Her research focuses on the project of the contemporary city, deepening the theme of the reuse and reactivation of existing buildings and abandoned areas in Italy, Europe and more recently in Sweden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more details contact: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

UmArts research coordinator Clara West at clara.west@umu.se<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UMA Associate Professor Maria Luna Nobile at maria.nobile@umu.se<\/a>   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event is part of Elena Mazzi\u2019s research project \u2018Complex Geographies’ granted by the Italian Council program (2023), promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The UmArts Displacement and Hospitality working group brings together researchers from different disciplines exploring the relationships between host and guest in relation to migration and displacement in the north of Sweden.  Several researchers across UmArts are investigating the urgent relations of hospitality and care involved in moving between countries and cities, from the physical process of moving a house, to rethinking Swedish Building standards, and the challenges of addressing issues of migration and the right to work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022 the \u2018Moving North\u2019 project was awarded a New European Bauhaus \/ ArkDes Vision I Norr fund for developing proposals to increase social integration in the city by exploring forms of reciprocity between migrants, refugees and host communities.  Moving North was a cross-sectoral team consisting of an artist, a curator, architects, a cultural geographer, architecture students and the organization Hej Framling. Based on a strong foothold in northern Sweden and with experience of both collaboration and participant-based methods in places with increased migration and relocation, Moving North critically explored how different placemaking processes can promote social participation and social sustainability. Their findings are recorded in the short film 'Folketstad: A city of many parts' 17:40 which address the challenges of restrictive migration and labour laws on people's well-being at a time when the North is rapidly expanding and recruiting a new workforce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Moving North group presented their research at the Transformations 22 Conference<\/a> 'Artistic Research in a Time of Change' at Vetenskapens hus, Lule\u00e5 University of Technology, 17-18 November 2022; and at the European Conference in Ume\u00e5, February 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Geopolitics of the Forest working group meets regularly to share their research on the geopolitics of the forest across art, architecture, political science and landscape ecology. The group are exploring how to develop holistic and interdisciplinary understandings of the human \/ forest relationship that can represent multiple, overlapping and conflicting interests. They aim to develop a shared critical space for new collaborative artistic research projects which deal with the ethical complexities of forestry in relation to the climate crisis, to reconsider the language and aesthetics of sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The meetings investigate multidisciplinary approaches to the human and nonhuman entanglements of the forest in Northern Sweden. Research questions investigate the ethical aesthetics of different kinds of woodlands and their material and geopolitical networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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