What role can art play in the context of ongoing climate change? How does art embody human transformations of the earth, the sea and the atmosphere in art and visual culture? Welcome to an open seminar and book release organised in collaboration with the Master Programme in Environmental Humanities.

The evening’s programme

– Conversation between Mårten Snickare, director of Accelerator, and the book’s editors Dan Karlholm and Anna-Maria Hällgren.
– Conversation between researcher and curator Caroline Elgh and artist Ingela Ihrman about the sea in contemporary art.
– Conversation between Anna-Maria Hällgren, art historian and editor of the book, and Catharina Nolin on landscape architecture and sustainability.

Accelerator Café
Thursday 3 October
18:00 – 20:00
Language: Swedish
Free entry, no registration required

Participants

Mårten Snickare, Professor of Art History at Stockholm University, Administrative Director of Accelerator
Dan Karlholm, Professor of Art History at Södertörn University, editor of the book
Anna-Maria Hällgren, Senior Lecturer in Art and Visual Studies at Umeå University, editor of the book
Caroline Elgh, curator, PhD student at Linköping University
Ingela Ihrman, artist, winner of the DN Culture Prize 2024
Catharina Nolin, Professor of Art History at Stockholm University