Sunday 17th February – Barents Spektakel 2019

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Alessandro Rolandi
Social Sensibility R&D Department

Social Sensibility R&D Department is an artist collective based in Beijing and Paris. It addresses fundamental questions about the nature of art-making and place of the artist in the contemporary socio-political context. For “The Worlds Northernmost Chinatown”, Ronaldi presents three video works that represents the collective’s work and practice. In one video-piece, worker and performance…

Máret Ánne Sara in collaberation with Elin Már Øyen Vister
Pile o´Sápmi: ealáskan

How do we relate to land and how do we read it´s history and presence? Kirkenes/Girkonjárga is part of core Sápmi and is situated on Eastern Sámi, Sea Sami as well as Northern Sámi shared land, colonised by the Norwegian state for centuries. Today the young town is flirting with a new massive invasion of…

Peter Fend
Arctic Action

For ten years, Peter Fend has conducted tests finding our if ten tonnes of marine or aquatic biomass can be harvested by a small team in one hour, meaning that 100 tonnes could be harvested in one day. Such a yield, if sustainable every year, would allow for commercial development of macro algae-to-energy industries. Fend…

Olga Zhitlina
Polar Shanghai

Almost from the very beginning of Murmansk’s history, right up until 1940, there was a Chinese district that was referred to as “Shanghai”; with the Chinese population making up the second largest diaspora after the Tatars. From where did they come from and where did they disappear? In Olga Zhitlina’s video work, we follow this…

Susanne M. Winterling in Collaboration with Máret Ánne Sara
Sensors of Change

Sensors of change is a site-specific installation including biomass, bio resin casts, stereo sound, HD projection and public intervention Triggered by climate change, different forces will arrive from the north. Biomass and invasive species will map and sense the change. While there is a monetary excitement about the Chinese investment, its up for speculation what…

Ilia Dolgov
aliexpressnordgarden

September was used to collect plant seeds in Sør-Varanger. In October the shipment came from Aliexpress, China. And so, the process of creating a garden from the north, 1000km from its north, began. Ilia Dolgov presents aliexpress-north-garden. A video work that documents the process of developing a northern garden in the artist`s studio in St…

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