If you are in Helsinki on 21st June – this event is a must! The Eco-and Bioart Lab has been part of the State of the Art Network project over the past several years and we have also taken part in the creation of the terrific book State of the Art – Elements for Critical Thinking and Doing , which is coming out really soon.

For more on the book launch itself – see the info below shared via Bioart Society:

State of the Art – Elements for Critical Thinking and Doing
on 21st June 2023 at 17:00 EEST
SOLU Space, Panimokatu 1 (3rd floor), Helsinki

Join us for the launch of State of the Art – Elements for Critical Thinking and Doing publication.

The publication wraps up the State of the Art Network (SOTAN) collaboration project. SOTAN has been a Nordic-Baltic transdisciplinary network of artists…

During the second half of March 2023, The Eco- and Bioart Lab, Queer Death Studies Network and Tema G (the unit of Gender Studies) at Linköping University (LiU) have a pleasure to host our guest and visiting researcher Prof. Patricia MacCormack (Anglia Ruskin University, UK).

We are thrilled to hold several local, hybrid and online events, where you can tune in and engage with the work of Prof. MacCormack. One of these events is the Tema Genus Higher Seminar taking place on 29th March 2023 at 13:15-15:00 CEST.

Pleas, see details below!

Tema Genus Higher Seminar on

“Occult Ahuman Pedagogy: Death to the Anthropocene by Witchcraft”

Speaker: Prof. Patricia MacCormack (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)

Where: Faros, Tema huset, Campus Valla, Linköping University & on Zoom

When: 29th March 2023, 13:15 – 15:00 CEST

BIO:

Patricia MacCormack is Professor of Continental Philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge. She has published…

In care you cannot make it for our symposium on 23rd March in Norrköping, or if you are still thirsty and wish to explore the theme further, you are warmly invited to join us – in a bit altered line-up – for this online event:

Welcome to The Posthumanities Hub & The Eco- and Bioart Lab Webinar

“Ecologies of Death, Ecologies of Mourning vol. II: A Roundtable”

30^th March 2023, 13:15 – 15:00 CEST

Where: on Zoom

Our starting point for the international symposium “Ecologies of Death, Ecologies of Mourning: vol. I” (taking place on 23^rd March 2023 in Norrköping, SE) is the context of planetary environmental disruption, slow and abrupt environmental violence, and the ways in which ecological, more-than-human dimensions of death have traditionally been underplayed in public debates. During the symposium, we emphasise that what is urgently needed – now more than ever – is the…

Dear all – it is our pleasure to draw your attention to a new exciting call for papers, which has been announced by the journal Research in Arts & Education.

Abstract submission deadline is soon: 9th November 2022.

In order to learn more, please CLICK HERE.

CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECIAL ISSUE ON DEATH

Death studies have been a discipline since the 1970s. Currently, death is a topical issue not least due to the war in Europe. Also, Covid-19 made the idea of death a little less remote in peoples’ ordinary life. But death does not concern only humans. The ongoing extinction prompts us to ponder if there are deaths we dismiss as not worth enough of our attention.

Death is an aesthetic, ethical, and ecological issue. Graveyards might be historically meaningful places as in Ulla Taipale’s environmental installation The Other Side in Barcelona 2018, but they take up space…