Skip to content

Nordic Summer University Summer Session 2020

Tracing the Spirit – NSU 70th Anniversary

NSU Summer Session 2020 Schedule
- Pending schedule updates
About the Nordic Summer University
NSU History in 10 Art Projects
Summer Session 2020 Study Circles
Keynotes
Children’s Circle
Virtual General Assembly NSU 2020
Register / Become a Member!
FAQ
Contact Us

tracingthespirit

TRACINGTHESPIRIT #6: Future Echoes Lene Zachariass

TRACINGTHESPIRIT #6: Future Echoes
Lene Zachariassen wrote the seventh letter of Future Echoes in Norwegian to Ruth Aaqqii (to read more, link in bio).

Lene Zachariassen is an artist and leather tanner. Her workshop is in an old herring factory in Hjalteyri, Iceland. Her projects and work are born from different raw materials which are processed locally. Old horsehair-work in Iceland has long been important in her creativity. Many of her works interface skins and horse hair together.

This autumn, the letters of Future Echoes are planned to appear, with English translations, in an artist book documenting the project.

#tracesofnorth @the.nordics

TRACING THE SPIRIT #6: Future Echoes @josefina_mor

TRACING THE SPIRIT #6: Future Echoes
@josefina_morell wrote the sixth letter of Future Echoes in Icelandic to Lene Zachariassen (to read more, link in bio)

Josefina Morell is a painter, farmer, mum, schoolbus driver, runs a horse rental & does all kinds of handcraft in Reykholt, Iceland. This summer she has done mural painting in Syðri-Gegnishólar:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CChbo0qA0af/

This autumn, the letters of Future Echoes are planned to appear, with English translations, in an artist book documenting the project.

#tracesofnorth @the.nordics

TRACING THE SPIRIT #6: Future Echoes Frida Keisu

TRACING THE SPIRIT #6: Future Echoes

Frida Keisu @artkeisu wrote the fifth letter of Future Echoes in Swedish to @josefina_morell (to read more, link in bio).

Frida Keisu is a realist painter based on the rugged coastline of Northern Sweden. She’s born and raised in Tornedalen, very close to the wild nature of this area. Everything she creates today is fuelled and inspired by the raw spirit of this beautiful landscape. Awareness and connection to nature and its animals are crucial for her, and this deep awe is translated via her brush strokes to her meticulous paintings. Painting and art has always played the major roles in Frida’s life. And today she both works as an independent artist as well as an art teacher and lecturer at the University of Technology in Luleå.

This autumn, the letters of Future Echoes are planned to appear, with English translations, in an artist book documenting the project.

#tracesofnorth @the.nordics

TRACING THE SPIRIT #6: Future Echoes @hennikitti

TRACING THE SPIRIT #6: Future Echoes

@hennikitti wrote the fourth letter of Future Echoes in Finnish to Frida Keisu @artkeisu (link in bio).

Henni Kitti is a visual artist and writer. Her work is an evolutionary process in which elements from images and text continually form new entities. Natural science and physical phenomena are often the starting point for her work; how we experience reality with our limited senses, and what we cannot achieve. Kitti’s first novel Elävän näköiset (Lifelikes) was published in 2014 as an extension of one of her drawing series. It studies the ways in which we understand and utilize nature and environment, by depicting amongst others natural history museums, mining industry and merchant sailing.

This autumn, the letters of Future Echoes are planned to appear with English translations in an artist book documenting the project.

#tracesofnorth @the.nordics

TRACING THE SPIRIT #6: Future Echoes Laima Nomeika

TRACING THE SPIRIT #6: Future Echoes Laima Nomeikaite wrote the third letter of Future Echoes to @hennikitti, in Norwegian and about moving between languages. To read more, see link in bio.

Laima Nomeikaite is a researcher, human geographer and physical improviser. She works at the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research, where she currently researches street art as intangible heritage. Her research interests center on the interplay between heritage, arts, cities and space/place. Laima is also part of the improvisation company "På Stående Fot" led by choreographer Kristine Nilsen Oma.

This autumn, the letters of Future Echoes will be collected with English translations in an artist book documenting the project.

#tracesofnorth @the.nordics

TRACING THE SPIRIT #6 Future Echoes @kirstinereffs

TRACING THE SPIRIT #6 Future Echoes
@kirstinereffstrup wrote the second letter of Future Echoes in Danish to Laima Nomeikaite (to read more: link in bio)

Kirstine Reffstrup's debut novel "Jeg, Unica" was published in 2016 in Denmark and Norway. The novel was nominated for several prizes. Reffstrup later translated Unica Zürn’s "Hexentexte" together with Norwegian poet Aina Villanger. Reffstrup holds an MFA in Literary Composition from the Art Academy Valand in Gothenburg, Sweden.

#tracesofnorth @the.nordics

TRACING THE SPIRIT #6: Future Echoes @hildborchgre

TRACING THE SPIRIT #6: Future Echoes @hildborchgrevink wrote the initial letter of Future Echoes in Norwegian, to the Danish writer @kirstinereffstrup (to read more: link in bio)

This autumn, the letters of Future Echoes are planned to be collected with English translations in an artist book documenting the project.

Hild Borchgrevink studied musicology, creative writing and fine arts. Her MFA in Art and Public Spaces explored how the collections of Oslo's local libraries change over time. Later, she has created a series of projects that in different ways deal with archives, language and time.

#tracesofnorth @the.nordics

TRACING THE SPIRIT #6: Future Echoes The above pub

TRACING THE SPIRIT #6: Future Echoes
The above publication grew out of an early collaboration between feminist movements of the Nordic countries, starting in NSU’s summer session in 1971. Independently echoing this, writer and artist @hildborchgrevink has initiated a chain of letters in multiple languages between female writers living and working in the Nordic countries today. Future Echoes as a project, and each new letter, continue a chain and at the same time turn it in a new direction – a double perspective inspired by Victoria Browne’s discussion of feminist temporalities in her book Feminism, Time, and Nonlinear History (2014). During NSU’s summer session 2020, one writer and her letter will be presented each day here at @tracingthespirit. Later this autumn all letters are planned to appear with English translations in an artist book documenting the project. #tracesofnorth @the.nordics

NSU Competition! Win an original book from our com

NSU Competition!
Win an original book from our commission to the fantastic letterpress artist @redplatepress. He has been binding a unique collection of prints inspired by the Nordic Summer University archive, together with collaborators @luiseblackbird and @bogtrykkeren.
To be in with the chance to win one, answer the following question with a post, and tag @the.nordics #Tracesofnorth and @tracingthespirit.

Question: what has Nordic summer university meant to you, and why should it continue?

This can be answered in the form of a strong memory, an image, a manifesto, or simply recalling a conversation with a fellow NSU member on a windy Nordic beach.

(If you are new to NSU, you can answer “What does Nordic-ness mean to you?”.)

See the website in our description for more info, and how to enter on Twitter or Facebook, if you prefer.

Can creativity be automated? What the future of #t

Can creativity be automated? What the future of #tech hold?

CALL FOR ARTISTS AND RESEARCHERS to explore the human-technology relationship.

Apply to #NordicSummerUniversity
Grants available for your #scifi or #artsresearch pieces! Follow the link in the bio

What counts as home? Nordic Summer University invi

What counts as home? Nordic Summer University invites scholars, emerging researchers, artists and activists to be part of our Summer Symposium! Study Circle no. 1 investigates the relationship between home and belonging.
Follow the link in our bio to find out more :-) #cfp #research #arts #home #belonging #urban #university

CALL FOR arts research traces! The #NordicSummerU

CALL FOR arts research traces!

The #NordicSummerUniversity are offering grants for events, discussions, #readinggroup s, experiments end #artsresearch pieces.

Follow the link in our bio for ideas drawn from our 70 years of #artsresearch and scholarship.
Be inspired by our explorations of Nordic-ness, Nordic identity and NSU’s tempestuous history, through the #tracesofnorth project by @the.nordics.

#grants #research #cfp #nordic #university #arts #artsfunding #researchfunding #play #playfulness #documentary #photography #drawing #theatre

CALL FOR feminist philosophy traces! The #NordicS

CALL FOR feminist philosophy traces!

The #NordicSummerUniversity are offering grants for events, discussions, #readinggroup s, experiments end #artsresearch pieces.

Follow the link in our bio for ideas drawn from our 70 years of #feminist activism and scholarship.
Follow our explorations of Nordic-ness, Nordic feminism and NSU’s tempestuous history, through the #tracesofnorth project by @the.nordics.

#grants #research #cfp #feminist #nordic #university #arts #artsfunding #researchfunding

When listen to someone’s voice, one is shaken. L

When listen to someone’s voice, one is shaken. Literally. If it is a rattle or a sway, a quiver or a surge, a swell or a drop... Follow one of our artist/researchers exploring the materiality of sounds, voices and aural soundscapes.

tracingthespirit.com

#arts #research #voice #sound #tracesofnorth

One of our artists @giulia_mangione lets us into h

One of our artists @giulia_mangione lets us into her process:

For my project Oleana I decided to work with analog film photography. The process is a bit lengthy but, in my opinion, totally worthy. In my working flow I alternate digital and analogue techniques to reach the final print. After the rolls of film have been developed by the photo lab, I usually go to the darkroom to make some contact sheets. On these prints I can see small reproductions of the entire negative on one sheet of photosensitive paper. Through these, I make a rough selection of the images I think are more interesting or better framed, and mark them. After that I move to the digital lab and I scan the images I selected in high resolution in order to see them in large size on my computer screen. After making the very final selection, I go back to the darkroom and print only the one image from one shooting session that I think looks best.
#tracesofnorth #arts #research #photography #darkroom #archive @the.nordics

View and explore EŦNICITY INC - the extraordinary

View and explore EŦNICITY INC - the extraordinary relic crafted for NSU's Anniversary Project!

The piece is based on a Saami spoon and questions homogenous notions of ‘Nordic’ identity. Stories are carved into the clay, showing the complexities of #sustainability when intersecting with ethnicity. Follow the link to read the whole story.

This piece is part of arts-research piece 'Into the Forest', Nathanael Le Bret and Luka Zabret have crafted a relic that will be incorporated into a VR installation exploring a future post-human vision of the #NordicSummerUniversity.

Our Summer Session in Norway just got even more exciting... https://tracingthespirit.com/category/into-the-forest/

#TracingTheSpirit #Nordicness #TracesOfNorth
@nathanael.lebret @the.nordics

What is the experience of (not) being a keynote?

What is the experience of (not) being a keynote?

One of our arts-researchers is mixing memories of #NSU with themes of journeying and everyday life. The #openness of the Nordic Summer University has always allowed playful subversions of “normal” academic practice.
Known for their “flat hierarchies”, #Nordic countries embody a tension between the desire to succeed and humbleness in the wake of traditions of superiority - like the elusive position of being a keynote... The latest film by @zu.thun_und.lassen can be found at tracingthespirit.com/2019/12/16

#tracesofnorth @the.nordics #arts #research #humbleness #nordic #keynote #uni #artsresearch #film

* Letterpress Printer / Artist wanted! If you kno

*
Letterpress Printer / Artist wanted!

If you know someone with a unique letterpress practice, who is excited about experimental collaborations, Nordic-ness and research, share this unique opportunity with the #NordicSummerUniversity.

Find out more on our Opportunities page. You can also see more from the leader of this project @redplatepress
#tracesofnorth @the.nordics #academia #research #archive #arts #artsresearch #artsfunding #letterpress #printing

What brought a Norwegian violinist to this log-cab

What brought a Norwegian violinist to this log-cabin?

Our documentary photographer @giulia_mangione is finding #tracesofnorth in the experiences of those who emigrated with #OleBull.

Notes from her journey:
The major challenge of the Oleana project is to find a way to visually recreate the parts of the story that are buried deep in the past. Oleana was founded in 1852 at a time where photography was in its infancy and it was still quite rare to see photographs reproduced in newspapers. In addition to this, the colony lasted only a little over a year, which made it difficult to find some time to document it.

#art #research #archives #photography #nordicsummeruniversity #NSU #norway #usa #utopia #oralhistory #emigration #history

“I guess I’m trying to subjectify the world, b

“I guess I’m trying to subjectify the world, because look where objectifying it has gotten us” - Ursula K Le Guin
Follow the link in our bio to find insights from our Lake Vättern research - tracing Nordic values using Arts/Research. .
Our @jagjord_jagvatten project tells the story of Sweden’s largest supply of sweet water, and the communities fighting to protect it. Follow Arci and Phil as they create an original documentary and explore what drawing up a ‘Bill of Rights’ for the lake tells us about Nordic and international networks advocating for environmental harm to be recognised as such legally.
#TracesOfNorth #arts #research #ecosystem #advocacy #nordic #ecology #film #filmmaking #documentary #billofrights #earthrights #environment #climatechange #ursulakleguin #lakevänern

Load More… Follow on Instagram

C9: Wrap up

Wrap up the week and future of the circle

Post navigation

Previous Previous post: C2 Lou Cantor: The Oracle. Workshop (2/2)

Next Next post: C2 Final circle meeting

Powered by WordPress.com.