{"id":8189,"date":"2023-04-29T05:30:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T05:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/episode-4-of-naarca-testing-grounds-podcast-is-up-featuring-the-baltic-art-center-in-gotland-sweden-english-only\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T13:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:01:39","slug":"episode-4-of-naarca-testing-grounds-podcast-is-up-featuring-the-baltic-art-center-in-gotland-sweden-english-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/episode-4-of-naarca-testing-grounds-podcast-is-up-featuring-the-baltic-art-center-in-gotland-sweden-english-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 4 of NAARCA Testing Grounds podcast is up! Featuring the Baltic Art Center in Gotland, Sweden [English only]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Episode 4: Baltic Art Center \u2013 Artists\u2019 Role in an Age of Climate Crisis\u00a0https:\/\/naarca.art\/testing-grounds-podcast\/<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

What role can, and should, artists play in an age of the climate crisis? What opportunities do artists have in this context, and what \u2013 if any \u2013 are their responsibilities?<\/span><\/p>\n

Baltic Art Center (BAC) is NAARCA\u2019s Swedish partner. It\u2019s based in Visby, the main town on Gotland, an island in the Baltic Sea. Gotland is a popular tourist destination known for its beaches, its medieval history, and \u2013 increasingly \u2013 its water shortages. The reasons for these shortages are complex \u2013 industries such as agriculture and chalk mining have played a part \u2013 but there\u2019s little doubt that climate change is exacerbating the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

Helena Selder is the Artistic Director of BAC. She introduces us to Visby, to Gotland, and to our three contributors: artists Rikke Luther and Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, who work together as Urbonas Studio. All three artists are engaged with water, but in very different ways \u2013 Urbonas\u2019 focus is on swamps, and Rikke Luther\u2019s is on mud. They explore their shared interest in human-nature interactions and climate change, their contrasting approaches to their work, and the potential for art and artists to help us navigate our current reality \u2013 and, perhaps, imagine a different one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Find out more:<\/span><\/p>\n

Baltic Art Center: <\/span>balticartcenter.com\/home\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

GRASS Fellows programme: <\/span>balticartcenter.com\/projects\/grass-fellow\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Swamp Observatory app: <\/span>nugu.lt\/us\/?p=1687<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Swedish Art Residency Network: <\/span>swanresidencynetwork.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Contributors: <\/span>Helena Selder, Artistic Director, Baltic Art Center; <\/span>Rikke Luther, artist and researcher (<\/span>rikkeluther.dk\/<\/span><\/a>); <\/span>Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, artists and educators, Urbonas Studio (<\/span>nugu.lt\/us\/<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n



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Episode 4: Baltic Art Center \u2013 Artists\u2019 Role in an Age of Climate Crisis\u00a0https:\/\/naarca.art\/testing-grounds-podcast\/ What role can, and should, artists play in an age of the climate crisis? What opportunities do artists have in this context, and what \u2013 if any \u2013 are their responsibilities? Baltic Art Center (BAC) is NAARCA\u2019s Swedish partner. It\u2019s based […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[420],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}