While the US Is Crumbling, I Seek Refuge in an Art Museum Comment: The news stories are coming in at a relentless pace. I am seeking refuge in the latest addition to the northern art scene. The Northern Norwegian Art Museum is now in place in Bodø, northern Norway, inviting us to understand both our past and our future.
Opening of the Northern Norwegian Art Museum in Bodø: Challenges the Neutrality of Museums Bodø (High North News): Today, the Northern Norwegian Art Museum opens its branch in Bodø. "Museums play an important role in a High North perspective with art as preparedness," says project leader and acting director Hanne Jakhelln.
“Before You Can Act, You Must Feel” Tromsø, Northern Norway (High North News): In an Arctic landscape increasingly characterized by geopolitics, security, and climate, literature can be the key to expanding the room for action and engaging more people, believes literature researcher Henning Howlid Wærp at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. "Before you can act, you must feel," the researcher tells HNN.
Art-based research can help us value nature in new ways Op-ed: Art-based research is a creative way of doing community science where you play with different artistic methods as a tool for exploring, collecting and visualizing data. It can contribute as an innovative approach and a holistic understanding to today's socio-ecological challenges.
Behind a Desk, They Decide Over Life and Death - Bob Dylan, 1962 Commentary: "Come, you masters of war. You that hide behind walls. You that hide behind desks." I resort to Bob Dylan in the search for words to describe a world in which bestiality is the subject of every headline.
The High North Tour 2021: When the Fishermen Left Nyksund, the Artists Moved In Nyksund: Once upon a time, Nyksund was one of the largest fishing villages in the Vesterålen region. Today, artists and other creative souls have taken over what could have become an abandoned ghost village. This summer, renown photographer Aleksander Nordahl moves in to the disused fillet factory.
The High North Tour 2021: Photographer Martin Losvik – From Nomad to Contemporary Archaeologist Valnesfjord: “Security disappeared early on, so I am well trained for working from my home office”, says photographer and artist Martin Losvik from Valnesfjord, Nordland county. He has lived like a nomad for years. Now, he works on what he refers to as contemporary archaeology in his own immediate environment.
Editorial: The Chinese Dilemma I just spent some days in China. Or rather; China came to me – in the form of the Barents Spektakel cultural festival in Kirkenes. For one week, the town on the border to Russia was turned into a Norwegian Chinatown. That is both impressive and a cause for further reflection.
