Tuesday, August 19th – Thursday, August 21st, 2025
Carolina Park & Uppsala University English Park Campus
Coinciding with the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) 2025 Climate Histories Conference, the Local Organizing Committee has curated a 3 day program of artistic events, creative workshops, and art interventions. The art interventions program is an open format – it is free and invites the general public to participate in the theme of the conference in the evenings on Tuesday, August 19th and Wednesday, August 20th from 18 – 21, as well as during the day on Thursday, August 21st from 11 – 19. The art interventions will be held in Carolina Park and the Uppsala University English Park Campus. Food trucks will also be stationed in Carolina Park and an exhibition oriented towards youth will also be provided by the Uppsala Peace Museum.
One aim of the ESEH conference is to explore how academia and the arts can collaborate to investigate environmental experiences. We have incorporated many creative activities into the schedule – for instance a sound art workshop and a poetry workshop – in order to encourage attendees to consider how artistic methods, sensory stimuli, and bodily presence can be used to assist in environmental history research. In the Climate Histories Art Interventions event, the focus is on exploring the contemporary and historical experiences of living with climate changes. The art interventions are also available to those that register for online attendance at the conference.
With generous support in funding from Nordic Culture Fund an Future Earth, we were able to fund two long term artists to engage with the Climate Histories theme. We also hosted an open call where we selected seven additional artists to fund to enact art interventions that will be performed, exhibited, and activated during the art interventions evenings. Finally we have funded three video artists for an on-site and virtual video room exhibiting their works, as well as one filmmaker to screen their film.
Find out more about the artists.
The full program can be downloaded and read below.
The following is the schedule for the event. Please see the program (above) for a detailed description of artists and events.
Tuesday,
August 19th, 2025
18:00 – 19:30 Anna Pehrsson
Mountainbuilding
House 22 Courtyard
With introduction by Rebecka Wigh Abrahamsson, Curator of Contemporary Art Exhibitions at Uppsala Konstmuseum
Art Intervention (Performance)
18:00 – 21:00 C. Grace Chang
lemóni lemon lymun citron
Carolina Park
Art Intervention (Participatory artwork)
18:00 – 21:00 Eliza Evans
Hellfire Holdings
Carolina Park
Art Intervention (Participatory artwork)
18:00 – 21:00 James Webb
There is No Place Called Home
Carolina Park
Art Intervention (Installation)
18:00 – 21:00 Lynn Cazabon
Losing Winter
House 22, Room 1009
Art Intervention (Installation)
18:00 – 21:00 Julia Lohmann
Department of Seaweed Drop in Workshop
Carolina Park
Art Intervention (Workshop)
18:00 – 21:00 Signe Johannessen with Erik Rören
Solastalgia Pangolin
Carolina Park
Art Intervention (Workshop)
18:00 – 21:00 Video Art Room featuring
Davey Whitcraft
To Those Who Create the Future
Tina Willgren
Halvklart
Kristina Frank
2Rabbits in Purgatorio
House 22, Room 1017
Art Intervention
18:00 – 19:30 Stefania Barca
Earthcare in the Anthropocene: voices of
counter-colonial conservation
Humanities Theatre
Roundtable
19:30 – 21:00 Niklas Wallenborg
Climate Time Capsule
Humanities Theatre
Art Intervention (Digital Work)
19:30 – 21:00 Eduardo Abrantes and Laura Hellsten
Using sound art and performance to explore embodied engagement with climate narratives
House 22, Room 0031
Sound Art Workshop
19:30 – 21:00 Erica Mukherjee and Anna Antonova
Once upon a Time: Telling Stories of Climate and Environment ‘Campfire’ storytelling
Carolina Park, Speaker’s Corner
Storytelling Workshop
Wednesday, August 20th, 2025
18:00 – 21:00 C. Grace Chang
lemóni lemon lymun citron
Carolina Park
Art Intervention (Participatory artwork)
18:00 – 21:00 Eliza Evans
Hellfire Holdings
Carolina Park
Art Intervention (Participatory artwork)
18:00 – 21:00 James Webb
There is No Place Called Home
Carolina Park
Art Intervention (Installation)
18:00 – 21:00 Lynn Cazabon
Losing Winter
House 22, Room 1009
Art Intervention (Installation)
18:00 – 21:00 Julia Lohmann
Department of Seaweed Drop in Workshop
Carolina Park
Art Intervention (Workshop)
18:00 – 21:00 Signe Johannessen with Erik Rören
Solastalgia Pangolin
Carolina Park
Art Intervention (Workshop)
18:00 – 19:30
Après Ski. Book lounge and mingle on Snow with Sverker Sörlin
Humanities Theatre
Book Lounge
18:00 – 19:30 Mirko Nikolić
Practices of critical-creative writing: poetry as witnessing and documenting environmental in/justice
House 22, Room 1017
Creative Poetry Workshop
19:30 – 21:00 elieli
Heavy Metal Clouds
Humanities Theatre
With introduction by Rebecka Wigh Abrahamsson, Curator of Contemporary Art Exhibitions at Uppsala Konstmuseum
Art Intervention (Performance)
19:30 – 21:00 Vlady
L’Isola Finita
House 22, Room 0031
Art Intervention (Looped Film screening)
19:30 – 21:00 Jordan Gass-Poore’
Hazardous: How to Bring a Community Together to Build a Podcast
House 22, Room 1017
Workshop
Thursday, August 21st, 2025
11:00 – 12:30 Julia Lohmann artist talk
About the Department of Seaweed
Carolina Park
Art Intervention
12:30 – 14:00 Signe Johannessen with Erik Rören
Communal inauguration Workshop:
Engaging in embroidery and branding techniques
Carolina Park
Art Intervention (Workshop)
17:30 – 19:00 Signe Johannessen with Erik Rören
Joint cooking and shared dining fest of eternity oriented exoskeletons
Carolina Park
Art Intervention
17:30 – 19:00 Julia Lohmann
Department of Seaweed Drop-in Workshop
Carolina Park
Art Intervention (Workshop)
17:30 – 19:00
Nordic Climate Histories: Impacts, Pathways, Narratives
House 22, Room 0031
Book Launch
Art Interventions Committee
Nicole Miller, (curator) Uppsala University/Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Anneli Ekblom, Uppsala University
Art Interventions Selection Committee
- Nicole Miller, (chair) Artist and Environmental Historian. Research Assistant at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Conference Manager for the ESEH 2025 Climate Histories Conference, and Curator of the Art Interventions
- Rebecka Wigh Abrahamsson, Curator of Contemporary Art Exhibitions at Uppsala Art Museum
- Anneli Ekblom, Professor of Archaeology at Uppsala University and Conference Chair for the ESEH 2025 Climate Histories Conference
- Hampus Thörnqvist, Student Representative from Uppsala University’s Global Environmental History MA Program
- Julia Lohmann, Artist. Associate Professor of Design at Aalto University
- Signe Johannessen, Artist. MA, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway