Residency is documented as a day-by-day journal on Bioartica's blog. 

 

In recent years, the concept of atmosphere has gained increasing attention across various disciplines in the humanities and the arts. Scholars have explored how atmospheres are staged, their lasting effects on individual and collective experience, and their ontological status. Though indeterminate, ambiguous, and difficult to define, atmospheres undeniably play a crucial role in shaping the social and the political.

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Atmospheres transcend the traditional subject-object dichotomy. They are not intrinsic to objects themselves, but rather emerge in the relational space between them. As the German philosopher Gernot Böhme suggests, "ecstasies" are the ways in which something extends beyond itself, making its presence perceptible. Atmosphere, then, arises as a holistic and inseparable phenomenon bound to a specific time and place.

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The growing interest in staging atmospheres within contemporary art opens new pathways for exploring perception and embodied experience. These investigations often unfold through affective encounters with artworks that invite empathy and emotional resonance.

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This composition was created using field recordings and data from the aurora borealis, captured with a VLF radio.

 

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​Kilpisjärvi, Finland 2015. Finnish Society of Bioart.