Annette Arlander

Annette Arlander is an artist, researcher, and pedagogue, one of the pioneers of Finnish performance art (1980s) and artistic research (1990s). Professor at Theatre Academy (2001-2013), University of the Arts Helsinki (2015-2016) and Stockholm University of the Arts (2018-2019). AVEK, Media Art Prize 2014, State Prize for Multidisciplinary art 2018.

Her artistic practice, performing landscape, is often focused on vegetation, in the border zone between performance art, media art and environmental art. Recent projects: Performing with Plants (2017-2019), Meetings with Remarkable and Unremarkable Trees (2020-2021) Pondering with Pines (2022-2024) and the podcast Talking with Trees (2022- ).

https://www.av-arkki.fi/artists/annette-arlander/

 

Image: Video still from Levande eller död - Dead or alive, 2022.