Prof Lise Autogena to present in Hallam’s Space and Place Group Lecture

Prof Lise Autogena will present in Hallam’s Space & Place Group’s first lecture series: Perceiving Climate Change #1: Ice: Greenland – what next? Local Perceptions of the retreating ice. In Greenland, the melting glaciers is already impacting on traditional ways of life and Greenlanders are experiencing a huge influx of climate researchers from around the world who come here to […]

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Prof Lise Autogena joins Advisory Board for the Swiss Polar Institute

Prof Lise Autogena, in her role leading Narsaq International Research Station, has been invited to join the Advisory Board for the Swiss Polar Institute’s four-year flagship programme: Greenlandic Fjord ecosystems in a changing climate: socio-cultural and environmental interactions (GreenFjord).The GreenFjord programme aims to examine the impact of climate change on ecosystems in the southern region of Greenland. Scientists from a […]

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Professor Lise Autogena exhibiting in the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton

Kuannersuit; Kvanefjeld still

Professor Lise Autogena will exhibit her and Joshua Portway’s video installation Kuannersuit; Kvanefjeld (2016) as part of the major retrospective exhibition Pia Arke: Silences and Stories at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton 16 January – 11 May 2024. The exhibition includes film works that examine environmental issues and colonial legacy within present-day Greenland by contemporary artists working in various contexts across Greenland […]

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HavObservatoriet: Professor Lise Autogena’s sea observatory art installation in Vejle, Denmark

HavObservatoriet: Credit to Jean Bidlot and Lise Autogena.

This post is from the Latest News on the Sheffield Hallam University press website – find this online here. Update: Lise Autogena was a guest on BBC Radio York and Lincolnshire to discuss her sea observatory art installation in Denmark. Listen back from 1:11:51. HavObservatoriet (“sea observatory”) is a public space which displays a simulation of the current sea conditions around […]

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Prof Lise Autogena’s Foghorn Requiem holds Guinness World Record

A REQUIEM FOR THE FOGHORN, PERFORMED BY SEVENTY FIVE BRASS PLAYERS, A FOGHORN AND AN ARMADA OF SHIPS A project by Danish artist, Lise Autogena, in collaboration with Joshua Portway and composer Orlando Gough. Ships horns from an armada of vessels off-shore, seventy five brass players on-shore and the Souter Lighthouse Foghorn performed a Foghorn Requiem, an ambitious musical performance to mark the disappearance of the sound of the foghorn from the UK’s coastal landscape. Conducted and controlled from a distance, ships at sea sounded their horns to a musical score, that will took into account landscape and the physical distance of sound. The performance took place by Souter Light House by South Shields, UK with 8-10.000 spectators and more than 50 ships off-shore.

Foghorn Requiem, a landscape-interactive musical composition by artists Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway and composer Orlando Gough, has been selected for the Guinness World Records. It holds the record for Most ship horns in a piece of music. The piece was performed by three brass bands, 60 ships at sea and Souter Lighthouse Foghorn. The Guinness World Records entry reads: […]

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HavObservatoriet artwork by Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway launched at Vejle Klimapark, Denmark

HavObservatoriet

‘HavObservatoriet’ is a new artwork by Prof Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway for Vejle Klimapark. The artwork uses the latest forecasting data to create a visual representation of the predicted state of the ocean surrounding Denmark. It was launched on 31 October 2023 at Klimaparken, a major landscaping programme in the city of Vejle that prevents the city from flooding. […]

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Professor Lise Autogena to speak at The 2023 Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland

Arctic Circle Assembly 2023 Rekjavik

Professor Lise Autogena will speak at The 2023 Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland this month. The assembly takes place 19-21 October 2023 and is the largest annual gathering on the Arctic, attended by more than 2000 participants from over 60 countries. It is attended by heads of state, indigenous leadership and others from the growing international community of partners and […]

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‘Curating matters of care in the Arctic: what does knowledge co-creation look like for policymaking’ – Professor Lise Autogena to present at workshop with The European Commission’s Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy

Courtesy of Lise Autogena I

Professor Lise Autogena will present at the Curating matters of care in the Arctic: what does knowledge co-creation look like for policymaking workshop organised by the Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy on 26 May 2023, at the JRC in Ispra, Italy. Autogena will also present her online archive work Kuannersuit; Kvanefjeld: the mountain that became the epicentre for […]

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Professor Lise Autogena speaks at ‘Art, Community & Identities in the Arctic – Best Practices for Children, Young People & Families’ conference

Professor Lise Autogena speaks at ‘Art, Community & Identities in the Arctic – Best Practices for Children, Young People & Families’ conference at Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland (10- 11 May 2023). Lise Autogena, Professor of Cross-Disciplinary Art, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and founder/director of Narsaq International Research Station: Speaking across the Sea – an art project of children’s participation in […]

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