A windmill delivers electricity to this «perpetual» motion machine. The street organ plays as the wind blows. A small drill is installed underneath the street organ and makes the turn wheel spin and the music play. A sail is placed in front of the street organ and works as the conductor and controls the speed of the music. The stronger wind is, the faster music is. No wind means silence.
Stefano Cagol’s solo show “Concilo” is a Collateral Event of the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia .
Dmitri Vilensky and Olga Egorova from Chto delat? (an artists’ collective from St. Petersburg combining political theory, art and activism) is on the way to Kirkenes.
The Nordic Days program includes a range of exhibitions that deal with vital and contemporary issues in the North.
Where is Norway in relation to the other countries around the North Pole? Why is the industrial development at its peak, while the settling level is very low in the High North?
The Barents Spektakel 2011 festival was formally opened by the Queen on Wednesday evening in the Kirkenes town square. In her speech Queen Sonja spoke of future opportunities for closer cooperation between Norway and Russia: