- Residency period: Autumn 2017
Annette Kristina Arlander, DA, born 1956 in Helsinki. Artist, researcher and a pedagogue, one of the pioneers of Finnish performance art and a trailblazer of artistic research. Former professor of Performance Art and Theory at University of the Arts Helsinki and Stockholm University of the Arts. AVEK, Media Art Prize 2014, State Prize for Multidisciplinary art 2018.
Performing landscape is the overall theme for her artistic practice, which recently is focused on vegetation, especially trees, and often involves site-specific work, performances for camera, recorded speech, video installations and various experiments concerning the environment, and which takes place in the border zone between performance art, media art and environmental art.
Annette Arlander, Sunday with a Pine, 2017, video still. Courtesy of Annette Arlander.
Annette Arlander, Day with Old Tjikko 1, 2019, video still. Courtesy of Annette Arlander.
Annette Arlander, Dear Deceased, 2020, video still. Courtesy of Annette Arlander.
Annette Arlander, Dearest Pine, 2021, video still. Courtesy of Annette Arlander.