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Dr. Annetten Arlander

Annette Arlander is an artist, researcher and a pedagogue, one of the pioneers of Finnish performance art and a trailblazer of artistic research. She graduated from the department of directing at the Theatre Academy 1981, and as Doctor of Arts in 1999. She was professor of Performance Art and Theory at Theatre Academy 2001-2013, professor of artistic research at University of the Arts Helsinki 2015-16 and professor in performance, art and theory at Stockholm University of the Arts 2018-2019.

She received the AVEK, Media Art Prize 2014, and the State Prize for Multidisciplinary art 2018. At present she is visiting researcher at Academy of Fine Art, University of the Arts HelsinkiPerforming landscape is the overall theme for her artistic practice, which recently is focused on vegetation, especially trees, and often involves site-specific work, performances for camera, recorded speech, video installations and various experiments concerning the environment, and which takes place in the border zone between performance art, media art and environmental art.