Welcoming artist Rikke Luther, the first NAARCA resident at Artica

Images: Rikke Luther, More Mud, Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, 2021

This month we are very pleased to welcome Rikke Luther a Danish artist based in Copenhagen.

Her current work explores the new interrelations created by environmental crisis as they relate to the Earth System. Those relation compass themes related to landscape, language, politics, financialisation, law, biology, geology and economy, that expressed in drawn images, photography and film. Over the course of two years (2022-24), Rikke will embark on a research project entitled More Mud which will include residencies at Baltic Art Center (Sweden), Skaftfell Art Center (Iceland), Artica Svalbard (Norway) and research trips to Finland, and Greenland. From these field studies, NAARCA has commissioned a new film to be completed in Spring 2024.

More Mud  has its roots in Luther’s PhD Concrete Aesthetics: From Universal Rights to Financial Post-Democracy and will be a part of the Post Doc The Ocean-Lands: Mud Within the Earth System under ‘Queen Margrethe’s and Vigdís Finnbogadóttir´s Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ocean, Climate, and Society’ (ROCS), The GLOBE Institute, Danish Natural History Museum and Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Copenhagen University.

Rikke has been nominated by Nordic Alliance of Artists’ Residencies on Climate Action (NAARCA) for the residency at Artica. You can read more about Rikke here and listen to a recent interview in episode four of the NAARCA podcast, Testing Grounds which is available wherever you get your podcasts.