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Liza Molodtsova
Liza Molodtsova (RU) lives and works in Nikel. She runs the Nikel Art Center and the non-profit organisation Collaboration which organises social and cultural projects such as the Pure Water project in Zapolyarny.
2016Cecilia Jonsson - Prospecting: A Geological Survey of Greys
Prospecting: a Geological Survey of Greys is an interdisciplinary, site-specific art project that appropriates the scientific geological methods of extracting, analysing and categorising mineral specimens. In doing so, the project addresses the distinctions between objective scientific methods and subjective influences.
Justin Bennett & HC Gilje - Mikro
Mikro is a series of improvised collaborative performances between HC Gilje (video) and Justin Bennett (sound) that draws its raw material from the immediate surroundings. On the last day of the Dark Ecology Journey, Bennett and Gilje will perform the latest version of Mikro using material gathered over the course of the Journey.
Arthur Roeloffzen
Arthur Roeloffzen (NL) designs books, magazines, posters and exhibition graphics for various cultural institutions, including Archiprix, Baltan Laboratories, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Perdu, Utrecht Manifest and Sonic Acts Academy, as well as for artists, architects and designers such as Tal Erez, Aliki van der Kruijs, Serge Onnen and Studio Makkink & Bey.
Nickel van Duijvenboden - Echolocation (Session)
Echolocation (Session) is a new work by Nickel van Duijvenboden. Following his micro residency in Kirkenes, Nickel van Duijvenboden will give a performative reading inside a disused communal space belonging to the Kirkenes mine. Van Duijvenboden blends speech with sound recordings and live instruments in a loosely arranged setting, creating a parallel narrative based on a prior visualization of the location and a psycho-geographical exploration of the surroundings.
Nickel van Duijvenboden
The work of Nickel van Duijvenboden (NL) centers on the question how to visually represent a writing practice. The word ‘writing’ here should be understood in its broadest sense, including reading, speech, script, correspondence, translation, reproduction, archiving, broadcasting...
Rick Everts
Rick Everts (NL) is based in Amsterdam and is part of the Sonic Acts production team. When not working for Sonic Acts, Everts lectures at the University of Amsterdam’s sociology department, where he graduated with a Research Master’s in Social Sciences, with a specialisation in the sociology of culture and the arts.
Signe Lidén
Signe Lidén (NO) is an artist based in Bergen. Her installations and performances examine man-made landscapes and their resonance. She is interested in how places and their histories resonate: in memory, through narratives and various materials, and as ideological manifestations and political territories.
Zhanna Guzenko (Fridaymilk)
Zhanna Guzenko (RU) is curator and journalist for Fridaymilk. She is currently the head of the Barents Youth Cooperation Office and manages youth project implementation in the High North. Recent projects include UnCapitals, a creative camp for young artists in Olonets, Russia.
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Fridaymilk Talkshow
Friday 27 November
20:00 - 23:00
Ledokol Club, at Park Inn, Knipovich Str 17, Murmansk
For the Friday evening programme in Murmansk, Dark Ecology hooks up with Friday Milk. The attractive and varied talkshow will combine interviews, talks, and presentations in which curators of Dark Ecology and featured artists of the Dark Ecology project get a chance to present and discuss their ideas and work.
Fridaymilk Talkshow
Friday 27 November
20:00 - 23:00
Ledokol Club, at Park Inn, Knipovich Str 17, Murmansk
For the Friday evening programme in Murmansk, Dark Ecology hooks up with Friday Milk. The attractive and varied talkshow will combine interviews, talks, and presentations in which curators of Dark Ecology and featured artists of the Dark Ecology project get a chance to present and discuss their ideas and work.
Fridaymilk Talkshow
Friday 27 November
20:00 - 23:00
Ledokol Club, at Park Inn, Knipovich Str 17, Murmansk
For the Friday evening programme in Murmansk, Dark Ecology hooks up with Friday Milk. The attractive and varied talkshow will combine interviews, talks, and presentations in which curators of Dark Ecology and featured artists of the Dark Ecology project get a chance to present and discuss their ideas and work.
Cecilia Jonsson - Prospecting: a Geological Survey of Greys
Sunday 12 June
15:00 - 16:30
Langøra
Prospecting: A Geological Survey of Greys appropriates geological methods of extracting, analysing and ordering mineral specimens. It attempts to examine drilled rock core samples beyond their commercial viability to identify the bedrock’s gray tones.
Signe Lidén & Espen Sommer Eide - Altitude and history
Friday 10 June
19:00 - 22:00
Nikel Skihut
What does it mean to be present in a place, to sit still, listening to faraway cries of dogs and shouts of children carried by the wind. Your memories are not invited, yet still they come. The meeting point is the Nikel Ski Hut at 19.00. The hike will last approximately 3 hrs. Please bring good shoes.
Signe Lidén and Espen Sommer Eide – Vertical Studies: Acoustic Shadows and Boundary Reflections
In Vertical Studies: Acoustic Shadows and Boundary Reflections, a collaborative work with Espen Sommer Eide, Eide and Lidén wish to invite the participants on a journey to a 46 meter high former water tower in Sint Jansklooster.
Justin Bennett & HC Gilje - Mikro
Mikro is a series of improvised collaborative performances between HC Gilje (video) and Justin Bennett (sound) that draws its raw material from the immediate surroundings. On the last day of the Dark Ecology Journey, Bennett and Gilje will perform the latest version of Mikro using material gathered over the course of the Journey.
Justin Bennett & HC Gilje - Mikro
Sunday 12 June
19:00 - 20:00
Sydvaranger Industriområde
Mikro is a series of improvised performances using the immediate surroundings as raw material. HC Gilje (video) and Justin Bennett (sound) use materials they find on this Journey. The form of the performance comes from the interaction between players, the material, and the performance space.
Fridaymilk Talkshow
Friday 27 November
20:00 - 23:00
Ledokol Club, at Park Inn, Knipovich Str 17, Murmansk
For the Friday evening programme in Murmansk, Dark Ecology hooks up with Friday Milk. The attractive and varied talkshow will combine interviews, talks, and presentations in which curators of Dark Ecology and featured artists of the Dark Ecology project get a chance to present and discuss their ideas and work.
HC Gilje – Barents (Mare Incognitum)
Sunday 29 November
18:00 - 22:00
Stadium “Trud”, Sportivnaya street 12/a, Nikel
Barents (Mare Incognitum) is an outdoor video installation by HC Gilje in Nikel (RU).
HC Gilje – The Crossing
Sunday 29 November
19:30 - 20:30
Site near Zapolyarny
The Crossing is a light-motion installation by HC Gilje outside Zapolyarny (RU).
Heather Davis - Plastic Geologies: The Problem of Universality
Thursday 9 June
10:00 - 12:00
NIBIO Svanhovd
The Canadian researcher and writer Heather Davis kicks off the third Journey with a lecture on plastic geologies.
Jana Winderen - Pasvikdalen
Drifting away from a state of stability, blurring acceleration, moving out of sight, but not out of mind. Invisible but audible, the consequences reveal themselves through the silence of species we have never heard. Jana Winderen’s new work Pasvikdalen is based on recordings made both above and under water close to the border between Norway and Russia. The work is a commission of Dark Ecology/Sonic Acts.
Jana Winderen - Pasvikdalen
Friday 10 June
09:00 - 20:00
Visitor Centre of Øvre Nationalpark Svanhovd
Sat 11 Jun - Sun 12 Jun
10:00 - 18:00
Visitor Centre of Øvre Nationalpark Svanhovd
The installation version of Jana Winderen’s sound piece Pasvikdalen (2014) is playing all day at NIBIO Svanhovd. Pasvikdalen is based on recordings made both above and under water in the Pasvik valley.
Justin Bennett & HC Gilje - Mikro
Mikro is a series of improvised collaborative performances between HC Gilje (video) and Justin Bennett (sound) that draws its raw material from the immediate surroundings. On the last day of the Dark Ecology Journey, Bennett and Gilje will perform the latest version of Mikro using material gathered over the course of the Journey.
Justin Bennett & HC Gilje - Mikro
Sunday 12 June
19:00 - 20:00
Sydvaranger Industriområde
Mikro is a series of improvised performances using the immediate surroundings as raw material. HC Gilje (video) and Justin Bennett (sound) use materials they find on this Journey. The form of the performance comes from the interaction between players, the material, and the performance space.
Justin Bennett – Vilgiskoddeoayvir: Wolf Lake on the Mountains
At 12 kilometres deep, the Kola Superdeep Borehole is one of the deepest man-made holes on Earth. The Borehole was a Soviet geology research project that started during the Cold War. Justin Bennett created a soundwalk for this abandoned site.
Nikel and Nikel Materiality
Nikel is a small Russian mining city near the border with Norway. It was founded in the 1930s after enormous quantities of nickel were found nearby. At the time the area was Finnish. An infrastructure for mining the nickel was built in the 1930s with help from Canadian companies. Mining operations began in 1940. In 1944 Nikel became part of the Soviet Union after the Red Army defeated Finland.
Nickel van Duijvenboden - Echolocation (Session)
Sunday 12 June
17:00 - 18:00
Sydvaranger Industriområde
Echolocation (Session) is a new work by Nickel van Duijvenboden. Following his micro residency in Kirkenes, Nickel van Duijvenboden will give a performative reading inside a disused communal space belonging to the Kirkenes mine. The meeting point for the reading is the administration building of Sydvaranger Industrieområde at 17.00.
Nickel van Duijvenboden - Echolocation (Session)
Echolocation (Session) is a new work by Nickel van Duijvenboden. Following his micro residency in Kirkenes, Nickel van Duijvenboden will give a performative reading inside a disused communal space belonging to the Kirkenes mine. Van Duijvenboden blends speech with sound recordings and live instruments in a loosely arranged setting, creating a parallel narrative based on a prior visualization of the location and a psycho-geographical exploration of the surroundings.
Fridaymilk Talkshow
Friday 27 November
20:00 - 23:00
Ledokol Club, at Park Inn, Knipovich Str 17, Murmansk
For the Friday evening programme in Murmansk, Dark Ecology hooks up with Friday Milk. The attractive and varied talkshow will combine interviews, talks, and presentations in which curators of Dark Ecology and featured artists of the Dark Ecology project get a chance to present and discuss their ideas and work.
Cecilia Jonsson - Prospecting: a Geological Survey of Greys
Sunday 12 June
15:00 - 16:30
Langøra
Prospecting: A Geological Survey of Greys appropriates geological methods of extracting, analysing and ordering mineral specimens. It attempts to examine drilled rock core samples beyond their commercial viability to identify the bedrock’s gray tones.
Signe Lidén & Espen Sommer Eide - Altitude and history
Friday 10 June
19:00 - 22:00
Nikel Skihut
What does it mean to be present in a place, to sit still, listening to faraway cries of dogs and shouts of children carried by the wind. Your memories are not invited, yet still they come. The meeting point is the Nikel Ski Hut at 19.00. The hike will last approximately 3 hrs. Please bring good shoes.
Signe Lidén and Espen Sommer Eide – Vertical Studies: Acoustic Shadows and Boundary Reflections
In Vertical Studies: Acoustic Shadows and Boundary Reflections, a collaborative work with Espen Sommer Eide, Eide and Lidén wish to invite the participants on a journey to a 46 meter high former water tower in Sint Jansklooster.
Timothy Morton - Dark Ecological Chocolate
Friday 10 June
10:30 - 11:30
NIBIO Svanhovd
Dark ecology starts off dark as in depressing. Then it becomes dark as in mysterious. Then it ends dark as in sweet dark chocolate. In this lecture I'm going to provide an experiential map of dark ecology – a phenomenology of dark ecology, to be more precise.
::vtol:: aka Dmitry Morozov - Лесофон / Lesophon
Thursday 9 June
19:00 - 21:00
Visitor Centre of Øvre Nationalpark Svanhovd
Friday 10 June
09:00 - 20:00
Visitor Centre of Øvre Nationalpark Svanhovd
Sat 11 Jun - Sun 12 Jun
10:00 - 18:00
Visitor Centre of Øvre Nationalpark Svanhovd
In the Pasvik Valley, between two pine trees, a few dozen adhesive tape rolls hang in a row. Attached by only a tiny piece of the tape, the rolls are slowly pulled towards the valley ground by their own weight, a process that takes several hours.
Fridaymilk Talkshow
Friday 27 November
20:00 - 23:00
Ledokol Club, at Park Inn, Knipovich Str 17, Murmansk
For the Friday evening programme in Murmansk, Dark Ecology hooks up with Friday Milk. The attractive and varied talkshow will combine interviews, talks, and presentations in which curators of Dark Ecology and featured artists of the Dark Ecology project get a chance to present and discuss their ideas and work.