Field_Notes is a week long artist residency and field laboratory that takes place every second year at the Kilpisjarvi Biological research station in Finland. This year, five groups looked to the heavens to work on exploring and evaluate a range of concepts that blend art and science through a hands on and interdisciplinary approach in an effort to answer questions above the ground. The outcomes of this residency are presented as a blog on the Bioart Society website
Our group, Space Earth Space was hosted by Andy Garcie, and involved inter disciplinary artists and practitioners alongside me - Minna Långström, Melanie King, Kira O’Reilly, Flis Holland.
"The Space-Earth-Space group will explore the tangible and conceptual connections and exchanges between Space and Earth in the realms of the physical, the informatic, the phenomenological and the material. How can the theatre of space performance inform our explorations of the Earth? How can we use the Earth to simulate an experience of space? What change in significance happens when something comes from or returns from space? In a series of readings, discussions, observations, and situated experiments we are interested in what kind of material is being exchanged between Earth and Space and how to devise methods on how to track, record or visualise such material and the process of exchange. We are searching for marks which the space environment leaves on the terrestrial environment and look into ways how the terrestrial environment around Kilpisjärvi can be used as a space analog."
SPACE-EARTH-SPACE group
Scenes from the Field Lab Residency through my lens

Tapping into ionospheric Very Low Frequencies though our VLF receiver
Our Kota for the night as we star and satellite gaze on the dark side of Saana fjell
A slice of a meteorite that landed in Russia

Consuming a meteorite

Setting up our astro telescope with hope for clear skies
Journey to the dark side of Saana fjell
Hunting for micro meteorites
Meditating with meteorites and rocks on top of Saana fjell

Our research station in kilpisjarvi - 69°03'07.7"N 20°47'12.9"E

Our night at the kota on the dark side of Saana fjell

Auroras of the night above our research station - 69°03'07.7"N 20°47'12.9"E

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