SKH hosts artistic research summer school

Between 17 and 22 August, 18 doctoral researchers and nine supervisors from Sweden, Finland, and Norway gather in Kiruna for the Summer Academy for Artistic Research (SAAR 2025). The aim for the week is to provide a stimulating environment where participants can develop their artistic research projects, share ideas, receive feedback, and explore new perspectives together.

This year’s programme has been developed by Petra Bauer, Professor of Film and Media for the profile area Art, Technology and Materiality, and Hanna Husberg, Assistant Professor of Performative and Media-based Practices, from SKH, in collaboration with the SAAR Steering Group and Kin Museum of Contemporary Art.

In dialogue with sites in and around Kiruna, the participants reflect on how artistic practices interact with social, cultural, and political processes. 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.

Throughout the week, presentations and discussions take place at different sites in Kiruna, in collaboration with local communities and actors.

The SAAR network is coordinated by Uniarts Helsinki and governed by a joint Nordic Steering Group.

The full programme is available on an external website where the public can also read more about all participants: Read more here