REGN RAIN SADE – TRANSLATION IN PROGRESS
Summary
The Climate Art project REGN/RAIN/SADE is addressing the issue on what role art can play in the creation of ecology awareness and action, especially in the Nordic areas.
Supported by
Vague Research Studios
Description of project
VESI
Kellarit täyttyvät vedellä. Nurmikot muuttuvat mataliksi vihreiksi lammikoiksi. Kaksi viikkoa myöhemmin sade rauhoittuu. Seuraavana päivänä sataa jälleen. Sataa yksi, kaksi, kolme, neljä, viisi. Ja vielä kuusi, seitsemän, kahdeksan, yhdeksän viikkoa. Sade ei lakkaa.
REGN/RAIN/ SADE, in the Relate North exhibition, is investigating language, storytelling, reading aloud and voice as a breathing language. The reading aloud is a way to enter into the story through a breathing language via voice, and to become an active part of the Climate-fiction. The group reading creates a trust through common experiences, and common rituals that brings forth the RAIN and opens a temporary place for experiments to be tested, executed and acted out in. Building on the ongoing art based research project RAIN, which took its start in 2010, the art installation and translation; TRANSLATION IN PROGRESS REGN/RAIN/SADE is taking the project in yet another direction. Global climate change needs to be addressed in many regional and local situations and contexts. By starting with an ongoing translation in progress, in this case translating the text of RAIN into Finish (SADE) and into an art-installation, the project REGN/RAIN/SADE connects itself to a broader international context. By using the local example of RAIN in other local contexts such as SADE in Rovaniemi, Finland, the art based research project is revitalized, transformed and stays relevant with up to date questions and ideas concerning climate change and local impacts. The installation in question was produced by material from the RAIN –archive but presented in a new and not before explored setting and composition. It showed the cards of the RAIN-deck laid out on a table; ready to be read in one way or another. A thin semitransparent silk fabric placed on top of the cards gave the installation a dimension of distance and presence at the same time. The same kind of paradox a contemporary talk about climate change can have; being both a real threat and at the same time not taken serious enough to manifest real change in our ways of living. On the wall behind the table four posters with the RAIN text translated into Finish was presented. One important part of the installation and the project SADE has been the connection between languages, reading and people. By asking nonprofessional translators to translate the text RAIN into Finish and SADE a discussion in and about climate change from the perspective of languages and the arts emerged. The use of translation and language to deepen the understanding of different local and regional impacts of climate change has been given a new central position in the project. Not only by opening the text for more people from different language backgrounds, but also by the differences between these translations and the differences in understandings of the text made by these translations. Small scale discussions of values between words between the languages took place. These obstacles or complexities in differences between languages, in connection to the theme of an endless rain and climate change, open up for a deeper understanding and new understandings of how to tackle and live with ongoing climate change in everyday life. The Climate Art project REGN/RAIN/SADE is addressing the issue on what role art can play in the creation of ecology awareness and action, especially in Nordic areas. In the Relate North exhibition REGN/RAIN/SADE is especially investigating group readings, language, storytelling and voice as a breathing language.
Description of work included
Installation and texts. Posters, artist book, translated RAIN story, art print cards, silk fabric
http://regn-rain.se/
Type of work
Artistic work, installation and translation in progress, part of the International collective group exhibition Relate North – Art and Design for Education and Sustainability 2017
Published in
11 November – 30 November 2017,
Art Galleries: Hämärä, Kajo, Lyhty, Kilo, Kopio, Lovisa & Seinä, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi; Finland
International collective group exhibition Relate North – Art and Design for Education and Sustainability 2017
Svenska, Finnish, English
Link to web site
http://www.asadnetwork.org/rn-2017-catalogue.html
https://www.uarctic.org/news/2017/11/relate-north-2017-art-and-design-symposium-kicks-off-in-rovaniemi
https://www.ulapland.fi/news/Relate-North--nayttelykokonaisuus-avautuu-Lapin-yliopiston-paakampuksen-gallerioissa/gzi2agxi/f54d7850-9cc5-4222-bf60-86f2a2335f6f
Other description
" The exhibition ´Relate North 2017 – Art and Design for Education and Sustainability` shows the rich field of artistic strategies and methods that artists, artists-teachers and artists-researchers use to interface Arctic environment and communities. The exhibition tour leads you into artistic and art educational practices that aim to describe or to give a respose to the challenges in the chancing art. Environmental issues, growth of industries and tourism and immigration are some the backgrounds for the artworks shown in this exhibition. " p. 7 Maria Huhmarniemi, Relate North 2017, ART AND DESIGN FOR EDUCATION AND SUSTAINABILITY, Publications of the Faculty of Art and Design of the University of Lapland Series © Overviews and discussion 55
Date
2017-11-11Creator
Gunve, Fredric
Eriksson, Kajsa G.
Keywords
regn
rain
sade
climate change
climate art project
art education
environmental education
translation
Publication type
artistic work