We are happy to announce that Anniken Huitfeldt, the Norwegian Minister of Culture, will open the Barents Spektakel 2012 festival. Welcome to the festival opening! February 8, Wednesday, Kirkenes Town Square…
Luba is in Madrid, curating the program of the Russian performance art at the Art Center «La Casa Encendida». It takes place in November 24-26, and is arranged as a parallell program within the exhibition Red Cavalry:…
Eva Bakkeslett has just been here to do research for an art project she will produce for Barents Spektakel 2012. The artists´ main focus is on environmental issues and traditional skills, such as crafts and bread…
Pikene på Broen have lended the art work «Games of Barents Minds» by the artist group Blue Noses to Bjørnevatn Primary School.
In the project «Arctic Cargo» that Ilya Mukosey is developing for Barents Spektakel 2012, the artist in a way refers to the Melanesian «cargo cults»: after the WWII the natives in Melanesia used to build mock airstrips and airports, real size, believing that airplanes would come and bring them CARGO – boxes full of miraculous western goods, which would make life better.
Kahviland (Coffee-Land) is a performance art project by Kristina Junttila and Leena Kela, taking place as a laboratory for a week at different locations in Northern Finland, Sweden and Norway during 2010 and 2011.
Last week Jan Gunnar Skjeldsøy and Christian Hummelsund Voie left Kirkenes after three weeks stay in the Bar International Residency Program. During that time we had been to Russia, staying at the…
“Arctic Tactics” by electronic artists duo Magali Daniaux and Cédric Pigot is a sonic immersion into political, economic, geostrategic and urban issues of the contemporary Arctic.
Dear friends! Barents Spektakel 2012 web page is opened, and it means, you can stay tuned and follow the updates of the festival program! There are not many names, dates and prices announced yet, but we are…
Welcome to the exhibition opening at Sør-Varanger Library on Wednesday, August 3rd, 12:00! Come and play the game about the future of the Barents Region! The project “Barents at Risk Resources…