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Glasgow based artist Elina Bry will undertake a month long residency in May/June in Ii at Kulttuurikauppila Art Centre through Photo North – Northern Photographic Centre in Oulu as part of their 'Adaptation' project. In this she will 'slow travel' by land and sea to Northern Finland to undertake the residency.
Bry will explore the relationship between humans and nature in our time of climate anxiety and climate change. The final result will address the topic through moving images, sound and performance. In Ii, Bry also aims to bring the voices and feelings of local people about nature to a larger audience. During the residency, Bry will organize workshops for locals where local nature is explored through movement and sound. As half-Finnish, Bry has a strong relationship with Finnish nature, which she has also addressed in her previous work Is The Earth Chronically Ill? (2023-2024).
Bry, who works in lens-based art and performance, has previously held residencies in the UK, Australia and Vietnam, among others. Read more about Elina Bry's previous projects on her website: https://www.elinabry.com/
The Adaptation project is part of the Oulu2026 cultural programme when Oulu is the European Capital of Culture in 2026. Overall it will include residencies for artists and researchers at the Oulanka Research Station (Kuusamo), the Art Centre KulttuuriKauppila (Ii) and the Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory (Sodankylä), as well as a research and development laboratory at the Oulanka Research Station. Work produced will feature in a main exhibition which will open at the Oulu Art Museum in October 2026.
Street Level are partners in the project alongside the University of Oulu's Oulanka Research Station , the University of Oulu's Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, the KulttuuriKauppila Art Center, and the Oulu Art Museum. We are delighted to continue our partnership with Photo North in Oulu also, who we collaborated with in a residency exchange in early 2020, which led to a solo exhibition by Kotryna Ula Kiliulyte at Street Level during Glasgow International 2024.