“Image/s of the North in Russian and European art” Interdisciplinary scientific conference

Междисциплинарная научная конференция

On November 30 - December 1, 2023, an interdisciplinary scientific conference “Image/s of the North in Russian and European art” was held, organized by the State Darwin Museum and the State Institute of Art History. The first day of the conference took place in the cinema hall of the museum. The participants and guests were greeted by Tatyana Sergeevna Kubasova, Deputy Director for Research. She noted the importance of the first experience of cooperation between the two institutions. Yana Gennadievna Shklyarskaya, the initiator of the conference on the part of the museum, emphasized its connection with the GDM project “Voice of the North”, which since 2018 has united researchers and lovers of the North and the Arctic from various fields of culture and science.

Twenty participants from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Prague and Oslo spoke in person and online on the first day of the conference. They touched upon the problems of preserving the traditional architectural and natural environment of the Russian North, the influence of northern wooden architecture on Russian and European architects of the early twentieth century; features of fine art of the first decades of active development of the Arctic, as well as motifs of the North in advertising graphics and contemporary art and, in fact, contemporary art of the indigenous peoples of the North of Europe and Russia. The second part of this day was devoted to northern motifs in Russian literature of the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as the theme of the North in European, Russian and aboriginal cinema. At the end of the program, there was a viewing and discussion of the film in the Nenets language “Seven Songs of the Tundra” by Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio.

On December 1, the conference was held online and in person in the reading room of the library of the Institute of Art History. On this day, messages from twenty participants were devoted to the landscape, myths and existential perception of the North in the visual arts and literature of Scandinavia, Eastern and Western Europe and Great Britain. As well as options for the musical experience of the North by composers from the south and north of Europe and Russia. The evening ended with a concert by Alexander Matochkin, a folklorist, collector and performer of songs and antiquities of the Russian North. He performed Mezen, Pechora, Pinega, Zaonezh folk songs and epics, and answered numerous questions from listeners.

We thank our co-organizer for the inspiring experience - the State Institute of Art Studies https://sias.ru/ and personally the director Natalia Vladimirovna Sipovskaya and the head of the art sector of Central European countries Ilya Nikolaevich Proklov.

Full conference program here: https://bit.ly/3Ri687x

Video recording of the conference on November 30: https://vk.com/video-39575430_456239729

Video recording of the conference on December 1:

https://sias.ktalk.ru/recordings/ToXAukgRuBWkCI0gzpOG

https://sias.ktalk.ru/recordings/sYUINmvstIZYaBBLOgb4

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