Klöse Festival - KF Huset
Expanding upon Luis Berríos-Negrón’s work during the research residency, international artists Ida Boman and Anastasia Savinova came to KF Huset for another month-long residency in Klöse, this time with the intention of producing an artistic representation of the community in collaboration with the Film Academy. The artists worked with the Film Academy students on a production that explored how abandoned farms and their traditional Västerbotten architecture can become locations of cultural production for the surrounding region.
The artists also worked with locals, some who had lived all or most of their lives in the area and some who had recently relocated there, in an effort to learn from their unique perspectives and wealth of knowledge. Through a series of community-based workshops, the artists and local participants came together to develop a deeper understanding of the River Lögdeälven and the way it interacts, both socially and ecologically, with local abandoned farms and the Västerbotten architecture the region is known for. Through the lens of filmmaking and other art forms, the participants explored questions of territory and periphery from an ecocentric and feminist point of view, digging beyond human exceptionalism to reclaim rural identity from a new perspective.
In rapidly urbanising countries such as Sweden, there is a distinct lack of cultural expression and representation originating in rural areas. There is a dire need for new perspectives and more extensive rural representation, especially through the eyes of young people living in remote and peripheral areas. This residency developed the possibility of establishing cultural production, including film production, in the village of Klöse and surrounding or similar rural areas. This process equipped KF Huset and its fellow organisations in the field of art with methods that connect the production of art and film to a constantly-transforming rural identity.
The art project was presented as a film production at the Umeå European Film Festival in November 2021 and was followed by a seminar explaining the process of its creation and the art project as a whole. The project was also displayed at an art exhibition in KF Huset’s Art Gallery, Klöse, and in the Väven Exhibition Hall, Umeå.
Funded by the European Union
Expanding upon Luis Berríos-Negrón’s work during the research residency, international artists Ida Boman and Anastasia Savinova came to KF Huset for another month-long residency in Klöse, this time with the intention of producing an artistic representation of the community in collaboration with the Film Academy. The artists worked with the Film Academy students on a production that explored how abandoned farms and their traditional Västerbotten architecture can become locations of cultural production for the surrounding region.
The artists also worked with locals, some who had lived all or most of their lives in the area and some who had recently relocated there, in an effort to learn from their unique perspectives and wealth of knowledge. Through a series of community-based workshops, the artists and local participants came together to develop a deeper understanding of the River Lögdeälven and the way it interacts, both socially and ecologically, with local abandoned farms and the Västerbotten architecture the region is known for. Through the lens of filmmaking and other art forms, the participants explored questions of territory and periphery from an ecocentric and feminist point of view, digging beyond human exceptionalism to reclaim rural identity from a new perspective.
In rapidly urbanising countries such as Sweden, there is a distinct lack of cultural expression and representation originating in rural areas. There is a dire need for new perspectives and more extensive rural representation, especially through the eyes of young people living in remote and peripheral areas. This residency developed the possibility of establishing cultural production, including film production, in the village of Klöse and surrounding or similar rural areas. This process equipped KF Huset and its fellow organisations in the field of art with methods that connect the production of art and film to a constantly-transforming rural identity.
The art project was presented as a film production at the Umeå European Film Festival in November 2021 and was followed by a seminar explaining the process of its creation and the art project as a whole. The project was also displayed at an art exhibition in KF Huset’s Art Gallery, Klöse, and in the Väven Exhibition Hall, Umeå.
Funded by the European Union
