Oil Topography: Weaving the World of Oil
Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies
Vol. 13 No. 1 (2022): Critical and Creative Engagements with Petro-Media
July 1, 2022
Ruth Beer and Tomas Borsa
Journal Articles
A Different Pitch: Listening to Water Through Contemporary Art in a Time of Extraction
Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2019): Open Issue
December 30, 2019
Ruth Beer and Caitlin Chaisson
A Canadian Selvage: Weaving Artistic Research into Resource Politics
Art/Research International: Transdisciplinary Journal
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2019): Making as method: Reimagining traditional and indigenous notions of “craft” in research practice
February 2, 2019
Ruth Beer and Caitlin Chaisson
Research and creation: Socially-engaged art in The City of Richgate Project
International Journal of Education through Art
Volume 6, Issue 2 (p. 213 – 227)
March 2019
Ruth Beer, Rita Irwin, Kit Grauer, Gu Xiong
On the Energy Humanities: Contributions from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts to Understanding Energy Transition and Energy Impasse
SSHRC Imagining Canada’s Future Initiative, Knowledge Synthesis Grants: Energy and Natural Resources
May 13, 2016
Ruth Beer and Imre Szeman
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Books + Book Chapters
Shifting Ground: Art Exhibition as Informal Pedagogy on Changing Arctic
Relate North
Relate North: New genre Arctic art education beyond borders (pp.38–60)
November 2024
Ruth Beer and Maria Huhmarniemi
Read Here
Full PDF Coming Soon
DOI: 10.24981/2024-RNNGAEB
Far From Home: Experiences of Northern Canadian Students in an Urban Art/Design University
Relate North
Relate North: Possible Futures (pp. 14–36)
November 2023
Ruth Beer
Read here
DOI: 10.24981/2023-RNPF
The Potential of Art and Design for Renewable Economies in the Arctic
Renewable Economies in the Arctic
(pp. 62 – 80)
December 2021
Timo Jokela, Glen Coutts, Ruth Beer, Svetlana Usenyuk-Kravchuc, Herminia Din, & Maria Huhmarniemi
Read here
DOI: 9781003172406-4
Re-mapping Distances
Relate North
Relate North: Distances (pp. 50–68)
November 2021
Ruth Beer and Guillaume Saur
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DOI: 10.24981/2021-RND
Mapping New Genre Arctic Art
Arctic Yearbook
Arctic Yearbook 2021, Section VI: Art & Culture in Identity (pp. 497 – 530)
November 2021
Timo Jokela, Maria Huhmarniemi, Ruth Beer & Anna Soloviova
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Arctic Yearbook 2021
ISBN: 2298-2418
Gas Station
The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea
Issue 4: Shoring (pp. 16–17)
May 2019
Ruth Beer
Dam nation: Disrupting the currents of energy and extraction in Northern Canada
Relate North
Relate North: Practicing Place, Heritage, Art, & Design for Creative Communities (36–55)
December 2017
Ruth Beer and Caitlin Chaisson
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ISBN:978-952-310-949-0
Press
Major Solo Shows + Publication Spotlight Ruth Beer’s Artistic Exploration of Relationship Between Humankind and Industry
January 9, 2025
Shifting Ground – Muuttuva maa at the Rovaniemi Art Museum
University of Lapland
September 2, 2024
Exhibition “Shifting Ground – Muuttuva maa” at the Rovaniemi Art Museum
UArctic
February 9, 2024
Rovaniemen taidemuseon uudessa näyttelyssä arktinen alue muuttuu peruuttamattomasti, mutta toivoakin on
(In the Rovaniemi Art Museum’s new exhibition, the arctic region is changing irreversibly, but there is hope)
Lapin Kansa
January 31, 2024
Lindsay McIntyre Named Sundance Institute and Forge Project Fellow
June 11, 2024
New Film by Lindsay McIntyre Wins Oscar-Qualifying imagineNATIVE Award
November 23, 2023
‘Shifting Ground’ Brings Nuance to Climate Change Conversation
December 2, 2019
Conferences
Petrocultures 2024
UCLA, Los Angeles
May 15-18, 2024
Activism, and Climate Crisis Panel with Ruth Beer
Relate North 2023: Beyond Borders
Umeå University, Sweden
November 13 – 17, 2023
Speculative Energy Futures: FluxKit Beta Tests
The Square, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
November 7 – 11, 2022
Petrocultures 2022: Transformations
Stavanger, Norway
August 24-27, 2022
Ruth Beer Presentation: Convergences: Research Creation Project, An interdisciplinary artwork/speculation
Arctic Arts Summit 2022
University of Lapland
June 21, 2022
Panel moderated by Timo Jokela: Artistic Creation through Research: Looking Back / Looking Forward
Learn more here
Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit Conference 2021
University of Lapland, Rovaniemi
November 16 – 17, 2021
Relate North 2021: Everyday Extremes
November 10 – 12, 2021
Conference Website
Exhibition Page
Ruth Beer Presentation: The Problematic of Images of the Canadian Arctic Landscape Depicting Everyday Extremes
November 11, Session 2
10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences
Arkhangelsk, Russia + Online
June 15 – 20, 2021
Conference Proceedings
Exhibition Page
June 17, 2021 Session with Ruth Beer:
Arctic Art: Best Practices from the Geographic Periphery
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences: Northern Relations
University of Alberta
May 27 – June 4, 2021
Presentation: Power Shift: Energy Transition and Energy Futurity
With invited panelist Ruth Beer
UArctic Congress 2021
Reykjavik, Iceland + Online
May 15-18, 2021
Panel with speakers including Ruth Beer and Timo Jokela:
The Potential of Art and Design for Renewable Economies in Northern Communities
Arctic Arts Summit 2019
Rovaniemi, Finland
June 3 – 5, 2019
Petrocultures 2018: Transition
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
August 29 – September 1, 2018
Ruth Beer Panel 6G. August 31
Shifting Ground and Open Water: Mapping Energy through Artistic Practices and Creative Resources