How does dis/comfort inform what is unknown or misunderstood about the Arctic?
Through an open call for submissions and by invitation, dis/comfort asks how Northern identity, colonialism, and climate change can be imagined and interpreted through layers of comfort and discomfort.
Featured artists: Kelsey Aho, Catherine Baumhauer, Mia Bennett, Anna Berrino, Minik Bidstrup, Ada Pilar Cruz, Mel Durrett, Eley, Lena Johansson Fahlén, Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich, Somer Hahm, Wen-Hsi Harman, Loes Heebink, Julia Hetchman, Katelin Hiller, Sarah Histand, Birte Hoelscher, Jenny Irene, Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi, Gali Kaner, Ashley G. Kidner, Nina Sikkersoq Kristoffersen, Sandra Kruisbrink, Salla Kuoppamaa and Tetua Pashnjari, Rosalind Lowry, Klara Maisch, Alia Malley, Kathleen Menke, David McCain, Jérémie McGowan and Amund Sjølie Sveen, Clay Mohrman, Ellen Mueller, Andrea L. Nelson, Aaron Olson-Reiners, Daniel Papke, Austin Parkhill, Claire Paugam, Laura Prochilo, Ela Przybylo, Kimberly Ritchie, Andrew Schwartz, Mikhail Siskoff, Clint Sleeper, Essie Somma, Marte Lill Somby, Liz Toohey-Wiese, James Westwater, Madeline Witek, Suz Yeremyan, Heejoon June Yoon
This exhibition is part of my research in the Arctic & Northern Studies MA program at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.