Artistic Visions of the Anthropocene North Climate Change and Nature in Art

In the era of the Anthropocene, artists and scientists are facing a new paradigm in their attempts to represent nature. Seven chapters, which focus on art from 1780 to the present that engages with Nordic landscapes, argue that a number of artists in this period work in the intersection between art, science, and media technologies to examine the human impact on these landscapes and question the blurred boundaries between nature and the human. Canadian artists such as Lawren Harris and Geronimo Inutiq are considered alongside artists from Scandinavia and Iceland such as J.C. Dahl, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Toril Johannessen, and Björk.

List of Color Plates List of Figures 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

Gry Hedin is curator andresearcher 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’.