Tanya Busse and Emilija Skarnulyte visited Pikene på Broen to scout locations and conduct research for their upcoming project that will be unveiled at the Barents Spektakel 2017.
Ina Otzko and Kjetil Berg hit the road for a tour of central Finnmark and the Kola Peninsula with Pikene på Broen and BAR International. The study trip took the artists from Karasjok via Karigasniemi, Kaamanen, Sevettijärvi, Neiden, Kirkenes, Nikel, Zapolyarny, Titovka, Kirovsk, Kandalaksha, Monchegorsk and Murmansk.
Emily Newman continues her research into the cold war history of the north during her socond artist in residecny journey with Pikene på Broen and…
Pikene på Broen took to the road to Karasjok last week with Russian and Norwegian artists to attend the Sami Center for Contemporary Art and the Office for Contemporary Art Norway’s event ‘Thinking at the Edge of the World. Perspectives from the North’.
This is Alexis’ second trip to the north and he has been drawn back to further understand the economy and industry of this place.
Norwegian visual artist Marius Moldvær travelled with BAR International through the Norwegian borderlands and into north-west Russia as he conducts research and field experiments for his upcoming project for the Barents Spektakel 2017.
Norwegian artists Shwan Dler Qaradaki and Sigfrid Hernes have been exploring the border; from the rushing waters of the hydro-power station at Skogfoss in the south to where the border meets the Barents Sea at Grense Jokobselv in the north.
The nomadic library of Joar Nango and Tanya Busse brings together the informal publications and texts created in the Barents Region. Through books, dissertations, zines, pamphlets and other publications the artists explore underground publishing initiatives that exist outside mainstream culture and institutions.
Nadya Gorokhova’s art practice involves sound and video works which act as explorations into acoustic environments. Based in Saint Petersburg, Nadya uses the everyday sounds to create immersive audio environments which are then overlaid with her own inputs from electronic and traditional instruments. This overlaying is Nadya’s response to the audio inputs that she hears and the result is a distinctive soundtrack to everyday life.
Norwegian artists Thale Fastvold and Tanja Thorjussen visited Pikene på Broen as part of ongoing research into the project Arctic Hysteria for the curator collective and independent gallery space, Locus. Their BAR International residency with Pikene på Broen took the artists from the windswept fishing village of Teriberka on the Russian Barents Sea coast to the mystical Tranestein stone in Mortensnes on the shores of the Varanger Fjord.