SAAR 2025 in Kiruna!
Over the course of the week the participants will share and discuss their individual doctoral research projects.
SAAR 2025 is taking place in August in Sápmi in Kiruna (Northern Sámi: Giron; Finnish: Kiiruna; Meänkieli: Kieruna). The host is Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) and it is organised in collaboration with Kin Museum of Contemporary art.
Theme and program
In dialogue with sites in and around Kiruna, participants 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.
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