Hurricanes and Scaffolding

Introduction

This themed issue will revisit works presented at the Hurricanes and Scaffolding: Symposium on Artistic Research, organized in Umeå in December 2024. The selected works will explore and represent different aspects of the dynamic interplay between more-than-human forces and culturally resilient structures, from a perspective of artistic research. Drawing inspiration from Nora N. Khan’s contrasting concepts of “hurricanes and scaffoldings” as developed in her essay “Towards a Poetics of Artificial Super Intelligence”, artistic researchers have been invited to identify the frameworks, practices, perspectives and themes that their practice can bring to the broader discourses of society, environment, technology and politics. Organizers of the event are Swedish Research Council in collaboration with UmArts, a Umeå University’s partnership between Umeå School of Architecture, Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå Art Academy, the Department of Creative Studies in Education and Bildmuseet.