October 27, 2026
How to Listen to a Mountain – a Symposium
How to Listen to a Mountain
A Symposium at Skaftfell Art Center
November 7 · 10:30–17:00
How to Listen to a Mountain is an intimate, one-day gathering centred around Strandatindur, developed as part of Julie Lænkholm’s practice-based PhD research.
Taking the mountain as a point of departure, the symposium brings together different forms of knowledge, experience, and artistic practice to explore our relationships with the natural world.
Through geology, climate science, local memory, embodied knowledge, art history, walking, music, filmmaking, and collective storytelling, we will listen to the mountain, the fjord, the river, the weather, the soil, and the people who live alongside them.
Rather than approaching the mountain as an object to be studied, the gathering asks wh...
