Using slow travel from all corners of the Nordic-Baltic region, the GRASS Fellow programme, supported by Nordic Culture Point, invites artists with a particular focus on sustainability issues to Campus Gotland for three-month residencies in 2025-2026. The aim of the residency programme is twofold: for the artists to deepen their practice in dialogue with researchers and students, and to enrich the campus environment with artistic experiments, field trips, workshops and artistic interventions that contribute to increased curiosity, awareness and knowledge about sustainability issues. To immerse the artists in the academic environment, a workspace will be provided on campus for the duration of the residency. The programme also provides resources for visiting artists to organise public events on campus.

Nikhil Vettukattil will bring his research on what a healthy, affordable and climate-friendly diet could look like in the Nordic countries to Gotland. The artist will continue to develop the website cantina.earth, which makes available a series of recipes that are experimental writings divided into sections on the themes of disaster, survival and resistance. In parallel, the artist will explore local produce on Gotland and ways to contribute to cooking and eating on Campus Gotland through social events around food.

My work often takes the form of serial, mixed media and research-based installations. I use a lot of found materials in my work and see my practice as a kind of editing process applied to sounds, images and spaces. My recent projects have explored the ways in which news media, art objects, popular music and cinema mediate the way we experience history and interpret our own everyday worlds. I am interested in making art as a way of social critique that can intervene and disrupt acquired habits of seeing, behaving and consuming, and that can propose other ways of living.