How does dis/comfort materialize in the North?
Through a 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. Artists share encounters and intimacies with the North through video, photography, carving, embroidery, an interactive card game, a protest poem, and two-dimensional works printed on photo transparencies. A range of experiences and stories unfold, asking viewers to consider their own comfort and reflect on the broader contexts of how dis/comfort shapes living in and visiting the North.
Featured artists: Kelsey Aho, Catherine Baumhauer, Mia Bennett, Anna Berrino, Minik Bidstrup, Ada Pilar Cruz, Vincent DeZutti, Mel Durrett, Eley, Lena Johansson Fahlén, Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich, Somer Hahm, Wen-Hsi Harman, Loes Heebink, Julia Hechtman, Katelin Hiller, Sarah Mehl 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, Marte Lill Somby, Essie Somma, 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.