Elin Tanding Sørensen

Norway (citizenship) °1970
research interests: artistic research, artistic method, architectural research, urban blue, more-than-human, more-than-human care, urban ecology and water-management, co-creational practices, experimental archeology, marine landscape architecture, marine biology, ecological engineering, ethic of wonder, nature as mentor, multispecies urbanism, undisciplined
affiliation: Matter, Gesture and Soul research project: University of Bergen, Faculty og Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD)
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Elin T. Sørensen is a visual artist, animator and landscape architect, trained in Norway, Finland and Estonia. Her practice happens at the intersection between visual arts, urban development, landscape architecture, and ecology: with a deep interest in the possible interaction between human activity and wild-life—especially with life below water.

Correspondence contact information: elin@urbanhav.no

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  • Matter, Gesture and Soul (last edited: 2024) author(s): MATTER, GESTURE AND SOUL, Eamon O`Kane, Geir Harald Samuelsen, Åsil Bøthun, Elin Tanding Sørensen, Anne-Len Thoresen, Dragos Gheorghiu, Petro Keene connected to: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    A cross disciplinary artistic research project that departs from, and investigates several encounters and alignments between Contemporary Art and Archaeology. Its primary goal is to create a broad selection of autonomous and collaborative artistic, poetic and scientific expressions and responses to Prehistoric Art and its contemporary images. It will seek to stimulate a deeper understanding of contemporary and prehistoric artistic expression and the contemporary and prehistoric human condition. The participating artists and archaeologists will create autonomous projects, but also interact with each other in workshops, seminars and collaborative artistic projects. The secondary goal of Matter, Gesture and Soul is to establish an international cross disciplinary research network at the University of Bergen and strengthen the expertise in cross disciplinary artistic and scientific work with artistic research as the driving force. The project is financed by DIKU and UiB and supported by Global Challenges (UiB)
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  • Multispecies Neighbourhoods in Urban Sea Areas (last edited: 2021) author(s): Elin Tanding Sørensen This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    “Multispecies Neighborhoods in Urban Sea Areas,” concerns the interface between art, marine ecology, landscape architecture, and urban development. The explorative action research is motivated from a need to act, and to help people discover a hitherto invisible landscape: creating awareness of its spatial qualities, colours, the smell of low tide and the myriad of lifeforms within this symbiosis of sea and shore. The aim is to expand the horizon of those building into this watery world. With a desire to co-create diverse and liveable urban bluescapes, the work has emerged in- and through a state of wonder. Image: Moss animals (Bryozoa). Scanning electron microscope (SEM) micrograph acquired at the Imaging Centre NMBU by Lene Cecilie Hermansen with Zeiss EVO50 EP. Sørensen © BONO 2020. Ph.D. 2016-2020 at the School of Landscape Architecture. Faculty of Landscape and Society. Norwegian University of Life Sciences NMBU
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  • H A V (last edited: 2021) author(s): Elin Tanding Sørensen This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    HAV evokes the spatiality of the undersea landscape together with the colours and lifeforms within this hidden, fluid realm. HAV has many co-creators: barnacles and marine biologists, porcelain, sugar kelp, saltwater, ceramicists, crabs, clay, annelids and many more. HAV was orchestrated by artist and landscape architect Elin T. Sørensen as part of her doctoral project “Multispecies Neighborhoods in Urban Sea Areas,” the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, NMBU. Curated by Annike Flo and staged at the Norwegian BioArt Arena NOBA Vitenparken Campus Ås 2020. Image: Barnacle (Semibalanus balanoides). Scanning electron microscope (SEM) micrograph acquired at the Imaging Centre NMBU by Lene Cecilie Hermansen with Zeiss EVO50 EP. Sørensen © BONO 2020.
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