The symposium and art exhibition will bring together
artists,
educators and researchers from across the Arctic Fringe to explore ways in which art, innovation and creativity can help build
sustainable communities in the North. It's exciting to host it in Shetland - previous Relate North conferences have been held in Anchorage, Alaska (2015); in
Kautokeino, Norway (2014); in Reykjavik, Iceland (2013) and in Rovaniemi,
Finland (2012).
This
year’s theme, Practising Place: Art &
Design for Creative Communities, brings together internationally-renowned contemporary
artists and designers, art educators, ethnographers and cultural historians. The
event, a
collaboration between the Arctic Thematic Network on Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design (ASAD), the University of the Highlands and Islands and the University of Lapland, will include representatives from many
of the eight countries of ASAD – Scotland, Canada, Finland, Iceland, Norway,
Russia, Sweden and the United States.
This year the project I took part in in Iceland in August, Northern Exchange: Cold War Histories and Nuclear Futures, will be featured in both the exhibition and symposium. There is a team of organisers, led this year by Roxane Permar, reader at Shetland College UHI, with Ásthildur Bjorg Jónsdóttir (Iceland) Elina Härkönen and Glen Coutts (Lapland). Roxane has been arranging venues and participants, while Elina has designed the catalogue. I volunteered to help with the preparations, and have drafted a media release and the catalogue entry for Northern Exchange. I will be flying up to Shetland before the event begins, to help with last-minute organisation and with the hanging of the exhibition. This is all very relevant to my Professional Practice 2 module, and it's great to have this opportunity. I am really looking forward to learning as much as possible about hanging artwork and the practical running of the event.
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