Artistic Visions of the Anthropocene North

Gry Hedin is curator and researcher at Faaborg Museum and holds a PhD from the University of Copenhagen in Scandinavian Studies. Ann-Sofie N. Gremaud holds a PhD from the University of Copenhagen in Visual Culture. She is part of the international research project ‘Denmark and the New North Atlantic’.

List of Color Plates

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List of Contributors

Introduction: Artistic Visions of the Anthropocene North: Climate

Change and Nature in Art

GRY HEDIN & ANN-SOFIE N. GREMAUD

PART I

Interaction between Art and Science

1 Anthropocene Beginnings: Entanglements of Art and Science in Danish Art and Archaeology 1780– 1840

GRY HEDIN

2 A Montage of Notes from Svalbard: Mediating the Arctic through

Artistic Research

EVA LA COUR

PART II

Changing Narratives of the Anthropocene and the North

3 Northern Landscape and the Anthropocene: A Long View

MARK A. CHEETHAM

4 "We All Have to Live By What We Know": Activating Memoryscapes in the North Baffin Inuit Drawing Collection to Understand Arctic Environmental Change

NORMAN VORANO

PART III

Media and Blurred Boundaries between Nature and the Human

5 Conversations between Body, Tree and Camera in the work of Eija-Liisa Ahtila

KATARINA WADSTEIN MACLEOD

6 Toril Johannessen’s In Search of Iceland Spar: Truth and Illusion in the Anthropocene

SYNNØVE MARIE VIK

7 From within the Porous Body: Modes of Engagement in Björk’s Biophilia Album

ANN-SOFIE N. GREMAUD

Bibliography 156

Index 169