SAAR 2025!

13.1.2025 0 Like 0 kommenttia Michaela Bränn

SAAR will take place in Sápmi in Kiruna, in Sweden, 17–22 August 2025

Summer Academy for Artistic Research (SAAR) is a joint Nordic project supporting doctoral artistic research practice facilitated by partner countries Finland, Sweden and Norway. The SAAR network partner universities have opened an internal call for participants for the next SAAR week in August.

SAAR 2025 will take place in Sápmi in Kiruna, in Sweden, 17–22 August 2025 at Malmfältens Folkhögskola. SAAR 2025 is organised by Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH). The program and working methods are planned by Petra Bauer and Hanna Husberg with the support of SKHs research centre and research office.

In dialogue with sites in and around Kiruna, we will reflect through the different doctoral projects on how artistic explorations and ways of knowing intra-act with the social, cultural and political processes in which they are situated, and how they are complicit and implicated. Kiruna exists at the intersection of different ways of knowing; where the mine, natural and cultural landscapes, urban, military, and technoscientific infrastructures, Sámi- as well as Tornedalian/Kven/Lantalaisian and Swedish majoritarian-culture and traditions coexist and create tensions, conflicts, and different understandings of the past, present and future.

SAAR 2025 proposes questions around practices of place-making, belonging, self-determination and ownership, legitimation and power imbalances, complex knowing and not knowing, learning, and unlearning and the position and response-abilities of artistic research and researchers in complex worldings. Over the course of the week the participants will share and discuss their individual projects, hosted by different sites, communities and individuals in Kiruna.

The venue Malmfältens Folkhögskola, is Sweden’s northernmost folk high school is a folk education centre in Sápmi/Barents region.

6 doctoral candidates and 3 supervisors from each of the three countries have the opportunity to attend the summer academy. Each institution will choose their participants.