Image above: Birch to Birch (video still)
 
Out right now
“Citizen Pine – conversation with city trees”, Ruukku Studies in Artistic Research vol 25 (2026) Dreaming the city for real

Ongoing events
Talking with Trees – Puhetta Puille – Talar med Träd a podcast on Soundcloud, here
Animal Years via qr codes on location on Harakka Island, see map here

Upcoming events
“Birch to Birch” in Performance festival Performance studies in Sapmi, Nordlandsmuseet Bodø, 28.6.2026 https://www.nordlandsmuseet.no/en/hva-skjer-oversikt/performance-studies-in-spmi
“Performing on Islands in the Baltic Sea”, lecture-performance at the PSi (Performance Studies international) conference in Jakarta 15-18.7.2026 https://www.psi-web.org/psi-conference-31/

Upcoming talks and presentations
“What does my practice do – effects and side-effects” as part of the Performance as Research Working Group of IFTR (International Federation for Theatre Research) at the conference in Melbourne 6-10.7.2026 https://iftr.org/conference-2026/

Forthcoming publications
“Video Essays with Trees – Four ‘Models’ and Some Examples” in Critical Filmmaking: Creative Practice Research in the Screen Industries, edited by Dr. Catherine Gough-Brady and Dr. Alexander Nevill.
“Revisiting the Pines” in a book edited by Dr. Mira Kallio-Tavin and Mirka Koro PhD.

Current engagements
Visiting researcher at Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki, see here

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Recent exhibitions, events and performances
performing in “Merkityksen Päivä” by Kekäläinen & comp. in Laterna Magica 27. and 29 May, 3. and 4. June. See https://www.kekalainencompany.net/wp/en/news/merkityksen-paiva-laterna-magica-27-5-2026-2/
The Slow Goodbye – With the Juniper on Harakka, exhibition in the Telegraph gallery on Harakka Island 12-17.5.2026 open noon to 5 pm see https://harakka.fi/annette-arlander-4/
Artists-in-Residence with Wind, Trees and Breath with Annette Arlander and Amaara Raheem, Wednesday 6th May 2026 – 10am
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3022557/3979879
“With the Juniper on Fredhäll Cliff” (performance response) in the Artistic Research Working Group of PSi (Performance Studies International) at the PSi #30 conference XXX – Cruzo, Cruising, Crossroads in Fortaleza, Brasil 11-15.12.2025.

Recent talks, papers and presentations
“At the Edge of Disciplinary Conventions – Asking Trees for Advice” at Art in Context, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway 10-12.6.2026 https://www.artsymposium-uia.com
“The Slow Goodbye – With the Juniper on Harakka” NfAR (Network for Artistic Research) event at Uniarts Helsinki 20.5.2026
“Documenting and Sharing – two examples”, Norwegian Artistic Research Program seminar 2, Stavanger 4-6.5.2026
Joining Junipers – presentation, University of the Arts Helsinki Research Institute 21.1.2026.
Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene podcast. Episode 52 Annette Arlander’s Talking with Trees. Link: https://on.soundcloud.com/Sn13SXF2eqnMjkl0m7
In this episode, Kate Brelje interviews Annette Arlander about her podcast art project, Talking with Trees.

Recent publications
One of the HCAS (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies) alumni of the month https://www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-collegium-advanced-studies/news/alumni-month-annette-arlander-and-kirby-deater-deckard
“Duration through Repetition – Revisiting as Method”, HUB – Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society, 5 (2025) https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2797281/2797282/0/0
“Walking in the Woods.” Global Performance Studies 7 (2) (2024). https://doi.org/10.33303/gpsv7n2a122
Arlander, Annette & Pilvi Porkola “Performance” in Karin Murris & Mirka Koro (eds.) Interpretation in Qualitative Research. Key Concepts in Qualitative Methods Routledge 2026, 75-79. (See here)

Completed projects
Participating in Gifts from the Sentient Forest, see project website and my personal archive on the RC
Pondering with Pines (2022-2024), see Uniarts website separate blog and an archive on the RC here
Meetings with Remarkable and Unremarkable Trees (2020-2021), see Uniarts website, a separate blog and an archive on the RC here
How to do things with performance? – Miten tehdä asioita esityksellä?, a four-year (five year) research project funded by the Academy of Finland, with Hanna Järvinen, Tero Nauha and Pilvi Porkola (2016-2021). More info on the Uniarts website of HTDTWP with links to blog and an archive on the RC.

Previous engagements and rewards
One of the three Uniarts alumni of the year 2023, see news here
Member of the Committee for Artistic Research at the Swedish Research Council 2018-2021.
Member of the editorial board of Ruukku – Studies in Artistic Research 2012 – 2021.
Professor of performance, art and theory at Stockholm University of the Arts Research Centre (2018-2019),
Member of the board of the Norwegian Artistic Research Program (2015-2018)
State Prize for multidisciplinary art 2018 see notice