The Green Zone series: Image, Friction and Relationality along the Ångerman River

Seminar

Date: Thursday 23 October 2025

Time: 15.00 – 17.00

Location: Accelerator

How do different types of image-making forge different relationships with the world and how might they articulate and create relationships of care that can facilitate positive futures for the planet?

Andy Jones, Christina Fredengren, Hannah Sackett and Jonas Monié Nordin, Stockholm University will present.

Abstract

This project explores this question through an examination of Nämforsen and the Ångerman River (Näsåker, Sollefteå kommun, Västernorrland County, Sweden), where the extensive prehistoric rock carvings of elk, boats, people, birds, fish and abstract images (carved between 6,000–3,800 years ago) were almost destroyed in the 1940s by the construction of Nämforsen Power Plant. The documenting of that rock art by Gustaf Hallström (1934 - 1939), and the intervention of the riksantikvarien (national antiquary) Sigurd C urman were decisive factors in the relocation of the planned power plant, which was built by Vattenfall between 1944 and 1947.

Nämforsen is viewed as a site of friction (Tsing 2005) in which the needs and priorities of the river, of the humans and more-than-humans that dwell in and around the river, of archaeology, heritage, tourism and industry have rubbed up against one another over time. These frictions are explored through specific processes of imaging (including prehistoric carving, archaeological survey, and contemporary art practice) that have formed and remade relationships at Nämforsen over the course of 6000 years, and through investigation into what these images include and what they have omitted and pushed aside.

The Green Zone Seminar Series Autumn 2025 at Accelerator Art Hall

Welcome to the higher seminar in Environmental Humanities at Stockholm University.

23/10 kl. 15.00 - 17.00 The Green Zone seminar series: Figuring Nämforsen: Image, Friction and Relationality along the Ångerman River

6/11 kl. 15.00 - 17.00 The Green Zone seminar series: Extinction Remains: The challenge of displaying contemporary mass extinction

27/11 kl. 15.00 - 17.00 The Green Zone seminar series: Narrating Transhumance and the more-than-human: Folklore and Sustainability

Christina Fredengren, Lotten Gustafsson-Reinius, Lars Kaijser and Karin Dirke.

Join the Environmental Humanities and Speculative Fiction Reading Group

The reading group will explore places where environmental humanities, archaeology and speculative fiction overlap. During the meetings, the group will read and discuss a range of texts - academic and fictional - and may write their own texts about possible futures. The reading group is open to everyone who would like to join.

Environmental Humanities and Speculative Fiction Reading Group

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Last updated: October 7, 2025

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