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Opening of the festival exhibition by Head of Troms County Government, Line Fusdahl.
The festival exhibition, Arctic Take Away, reflects upon different ways of viewing the Arctic.
The Arctic as a takeout counter where you order whatever your heart, or stomach, desires. Mining industry, oil and gas, food export, drilling, digging and rock blasting – it’s become a part of our history. Is the Arctic a perpetual source for outsiders to dig in? For how long?
On the other hand, the Arctic has traditions for transporting, taking out and bringing back, moving, travelling - borderlessness. Until the early 1800s this area was a borderless zone. The people living here moved freely, bringing their culture and traditions with them, taking out what was needed, giving back whatever they had.
The festival exhibition addresses these topics in a nomadic way, complimenting the slogan, raising questions and inviting people to the dialogue.
Dmitry Novitsky & Glafira Severianova (RU)
The festival exhibition will be located in different places around the city center.
Art around town.
The festival exhibition, Arctic Take Away, reflects upon different ways of viewing the Arctic.
The Arctic as a takeout counter where you order whatever your heart, or stomach, desires. Mining industry, oil and gas, food export, drilling, digging and rock blasting – it’s become a part of our history. Is the Arctic a perpetual source for outsiders to dig in? For how long?
On the other hand, the Arctic has traditions for transporting, taking out and bringing back, moving, travelling - borderlessness. Until the early 1800s this area was a borderless zone. The people living here moved freely, bringing their culture and traditions with them, taking out what was needed, giving back whatever they had.
The festival exhibition addresses these topics in a nomadic way, complimenting the slogan, raising questions and inviting people to the dialogue.
Dmitry Novitsky & Glafira Severianova (RU)
Guided tours in Norwegian, English and Russian around the festival exhibition.
Thursday 5th and Friday 6th: 16.30. Meeting point: Town square.
Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th: 13.00. Meeting point: Town square.
Maximum number of participants: 20.
The festival exhibition will be located in different places around the city center.
The exhibition is open to the public 4-15th of Feb. Hege Annestad Nilsen's exhibition, In Savio's footprints, is open until the end of February.
Pupils from Kirkenes Highschool and Murmansk State Technical University showing their results after a workshop led by Charlotte Nilsen.
The fashion show is followed by two DIY workshops, Redesign Café, for youth and adults at Fretex led by Charlotte Nilsen.
Get inspired by the fashion show and join in! Signup: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
How can you make you old worn out clothes cool again? Or perhaps give them that extra personal touch?
During Barents Spektakel 2015, the designer Charlotte Nilsen is running her concept Redesign Café at Fretex, Kirkenes. With a playful approach to design, Nilsen invites you to DIY, do it yourself , and renew your old clothing wardrobe without buying anything new. A part of the agenda is not only to be creative and playful with your old clothes, but also strengthen the awareness of one`s consumer role and how to reuse instead of buying new.
Open workshop for youth and adults, 14-17.00, at Fretex. Maximum 5 participants. Free of charge. Course 1: Redesign your old t-shirts into a top, skirt or dress. Bring 3-5 t-shirts, (or buy them at Fretex) we cut and sew and make them new! Signup: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Open workshop for youth and adults, 14-17.00, at Fretex. Maximum 5 participants. Free of charge. Course 2: Redesign your own Poncho. Bring your old jacket, sweater or shirt. We cut it to desired length and add some yarn threads. 1,2,3, your very own home made poncho! Signup: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Charlotte Nilsen has a MA in textiles from The Art Academy in Oslo and a certificate of completed apprenticeship in textiles. Nilsen runs the company Feil Farge that arranges courses in redesign and runs the Redesign Café, a blog and a mobile installation. Nilsen has travelled all over Norway with her Redesign Café and her redesign has been exhibited at both Tromsø Kunstforening and Arts & Crafts in Berlin.
Art around town.
The festival exhibition, Arctic Take Away, reflects upon different ways of viewing the Arctic.
The Arctic as a takeout counter where you order whatever your heart, or stomach, desires. Mining industry, oil and gas, food export, drilling, digging and rock blasting – it’s become a part of our history. Is the Arctic a perpetual source for outsiders to dig in? For how long?
On the other hand, the Arctic has traditions for transporting, taking out and bringing back, moving, travelling - borderlessness. Until the early 1800s this area was a borderless zone. The people living here moved freely, bringing their culture and traditions with them, taking out what was needed, giving back whatever they had.
The festival exhibition addresses these topics in a nomadic way, complimenting the slogan, raising questions and inviting people to the dialogue.
Dmitry Novitsky & Glafira Severianova (RU)
Guided tours in Norwegian, English and Russian around the festival exhibition.
Thursday 5th and Friday 6th: 16.30. Meeting point: Town square.
Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th: 13.00. Meeting point: Town square.
Maximum number of participants: 20.
The festival exhibition will be located in different places around the city center.
The exhibition is open to the public 4-15th of Feb. Hege Annestad Nilsen's exhibition, In Savio's footprints, is open until the end of February.
How to make rømmekolle and get to know your microbes - an informal and practical introduction to intercultural practices.
When a cultures dies the know-how and experience of generations dies with it. So does the bond created by continual sharing of the culture. With bacterial cultures their unique and specific relationship to place and the connection between humans and their local microbes also disappears.
Fortunately, bacterial cultures are incredibly resilient and can survive for thousands of years. They can be revitalised by being given the right conditions to thrive. As a cultural activist you will have the privilege of reclaiming, nurturing, cultivating, digesting and sharing these microbial wonders to gently activate yourself and your local environment.
Cultivating cross-cultural diversity is rewarding. It gives you a Robin Hood-like feeling of stealing back what has been lost in a world where the often invisible transformation processes of microbes have been belittled, overlooked, neglected, combated, tamed or homogenised in physical as well as metaphorical ways. It is both tasty and rewarding to nurture and share these unique cultures.
Additional activities:
Intercultural button-making: reclaim your culture, befriend your microbes and share it with the world in your very own home made button.
Rømmekolle Radio: a unique blend of rømmekolle voices and tantalising noises. A gory story of germs, cows, caring and sharing across borders and species.
The Rømmekolle Radio program will be available to listen to at the Rømmekolle Revival Café during the festival and as a podcast that can be downloaded from this link.
More info abut Eva Bakkeslett and her project Rømmekolle Revival here.
How can you make you old worn out clothes cool again? Or perhaps give them that extra personal touch?
During Barents Spektakel 2015, the designer Charlotte Nilsen is running her concept Redesign Café at Fretex, Kirkenes. With a playful approach to design, Nilsen invites you to DIY, do it yourself , and renew your old clothing wardrobe without buying anything new. A part of the agenda is not only to be creative and playful with your old clothes, but also strengthen the awareness of one`s consumer role and how to reuse instead of buying new.
6-7th of Feb: Open workshop for adults, part 1: 6th of Feb 16.30-20.30, part 2: 7th of 12-16.00, at Fretex. Maximum 8 participants. Course 3: Redesign with different clothes. Two-day course. Bring a bunch of your old clothes that need a make over, (or again, buy it at Fretex). Throughout this two-day course we make two items each, a dress, a pair of pants, a jacket or perhaps a new blouse? The course starts with an introduction about redesigning by Charlotte Nilsen. The group goes through the material they have brought to work with and together we have a little brainstorming on what and how to remake and redesign. Each participant gets individual following up throughout the course, both on the creative and technical part. If you want to bring your own sewing machine, you are very welcome to do so! Signup: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Charlotte Nilsen has a MA in textiles from The Art Academy in Oslo and a certificate of completed apprenticeship in textiles. Nilsen runs the company Feil Farge that arranges courses in redesign and runs the Redesign Café, a blog and a mobile installation. Nilsen has travelled all over Norway with her Redesign Café and her redesign has been exhibited at both Tromsø Kunstforening and Arts & Crafts in Berlin.
Art around town.
The festival exhibition, Arctic Take Away, reflects upon different ways of viewing the Arctic.
The Arctic as a takeout counter where you order whatever your heart, or stomach, desires. Mining industry, oil and gas, food export, drilling, digging and rock blasting – it’s become a part of our history. Is the Arctic a perpetual source for outsiders to dig in? For how long?
On the other hand, the Arctic has traditions for transporting, taking out and bringing back, moving, travelling - borderlessness. Until the early 1800s this area was a borderless zone. The people living here moved freely, bringing their culture and traditions with them, taking out what was needed, giving back whatever they had.
The festival exhibition addresses these topics in a nomadic way, complimenting the slogan, raising questions and inviting people to the dialogue.
Dmitry Novitsky & Glafira Severianova (RU)
Guided tours in Norwegian, English and Russian around the festival exhibition.
Thursday 5th and Friday 6th: 16.30. Meeting point: Town square.
Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th: 13.00. Meeting point: Town square.
Maximum number of participants: 20.
The festival exhibition will be located in different places around the city center.
The exhibition is open to the public 4-15th of Feb. Hege Annestad Nilsen's exhibition, In Savio's footprints, is open until the end of February.
Artists are often seen as the embodiment of freedom, since they seem to be resistant against restrictions. Though the world of artistic expression is more and more regulated by regional, national and international funding structures. Due to this, creativity has gains new value; being used to find the right formulation when a project idea has to be adapted to match the funding criteria. Do sponsors expect a more grateful than critical attitude from the artists they support?
This and the following questions might be subjects of the Visual Art Seminar’s discussion:
Is a project description a tool for helping artists sticking to the original plan? Must artistic freedom then step back?
Who defines the topics and how do they affect the planning of art institutions?
Do artists have the possibility to fail or to rethink a primary plan?
Is an artist just a decoration for a sponsor?
Is artistic freedom in danger and do institutions lose their authenticity while following business-orientated plans?
How can art academies prepare their students for a tough marked, or isn`t that a part of the educational system?
Time schedule:
10:00-11:00 Welcome and 6 short presentations
11:00-11:30 Radio Barents: Radio performance with Maia Urstad and min. 20 participants
11:30-12:00 Discussion with Maia Urstad
12:00-12:20 Performance
12:30-13:30 Break with refreshments
13:30-14.00 3 short presentations
14:00-14:50 Book presentation Artic Challenge - Site Specific
15:00-16:45 Discussion
Visual Art Seminar signup: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The participants of the Visual Art Seminar will get the chance to participate in Radio Barents - a radio performance by the artist Maia Urstad. Urstad works at the intersection of audio and visual art and travels all over the world to catch the sound of radios, transmitters, radio amateurs and operators. In combination with a special technique and 20 performers she presents a site-specific performance for the Norwegian-Russian borderland during Barents Spektakel 2015. Bring your own kitchen radio and tune in!
Photo: Maja Urstad.
How can you make you old worn out clothes cool again? Or perhaps give them that extra personal touch?
During Barents Spektakel 2015, the designer Charlotte Nilsen is running her concept Redesign Café at Fretex, Kirkenes. With a playful approach to design, Nilsen invites you to DIY, do it yourself , and renew your old clothing wardrobe without buying anything new. A part of the agenda is not only to be creative and playful with your old clothes, but also strengthen the awareness of one`s consumer role and how to reuse instead of buying new.
6-7th of Feb: Open workshop for adults, part 1: 6th of Feb 16.30-20.30, part 2: 7th of 12-16.00, at Fretex. Maximum 8 participants. Course 3: Redesign with different clothes. Two-day course. Bring a bunch of your old clothes that need a make over, (or again, buy it at Fretex). Throughout this two-day course we make two items each, a dress, a pair of pants, a jacket or perhaps a new blouse? The course starts with an introduction about redesigning by Charlotte Nilsen. The group goes through the material they have brought to work with and together we have a little brainstorming on what and how to remake and redesign. Each participant gets individual following up throughout the course, both on the creative and technical part. If you want to bring your own sewing machine, you are very welcome to do so! Signup: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Charlotte Nilsen has a MA in textiles from The Art Academy in Oslo and a certificate of completed apprenticeship in textiles. Nilsen runs the company Feil Farge that arranges courses in redesign and runs the Redesign Café, a blog and a mobile installation. Nilsen has travelled all over Norway with her Redesign Café and her redesign has been exhibited at both Tromsø Kunstforening and Arts & Crafts in Berlin.
The revival of the rømmekolle - microbes - a talk about rømmekolle, good germs, fermentation and intercultural bordercrossings.
Additional activities:
Intercultural button-making: reclaim your culture, befriend your microbes and share it with the world in your very own home made button.
Rømmekolle Radio: a unique blend of rømmekolle voices and tantalising noises. A gory story of germs, cows, caring and sharing across borders and species.
The Rømmekolle Radio program will be available to listen to at the Rømmekolle Revival Café during the festival and as a podcast that can be downloaded from this link.
More info abut Eva Bakkeslett and her project Rømmekolle Revival here.
Chaos Spektakel proudly presents the Norwegian rap duo, Cir.Cuz!
Cir.Cuz was establised three years ago and their debut single, Radio, peaked to number 2 on the Norwegian Singles Chart. Their hit single, Supernova, was the most played song with Norwegian lyrics on Norwegian radio in 2013. Cir.Cuz is a popular live band and has toured all over Norway the last years.
The duo recently released their new single, Original, already added to NRK mP3!
Chaos Spektakel also offers: Ung Artist from Scene Finnmark, hair and fashion show organized by Kirkenes highschool and a Norwegian-Russian dance project organized by th art school and Flavia Devon Hoffmann.
Activities on the grass mat: Paintball by Kirkenes Paintballklubb, climbing on soda boxes by Kirkenes klatreklubb, table tennis, sumo wrestling, ball games, youth cafe.
Free transport from the districts to Chaos Spektakel.
No age limit!
Art around town.
The festival exhibition, Arctic Take Away, reflects upon different ways of viewing the Arctic.
The Arctic as a takeout counter where you order whatever your heart, or stomach, desires. Mining industry, oil and gas, food export, drilling, digging and rock blasting – it’s become a part of our history. Is the Arctic a perpetual source for outsiders to dig in? For how long?
On the other hand, the Arctic has traditions for transporting, taking out and bringing back, moving, travelling - borderlessness. Until the early 1800s this area was a borderless zone. The people living here moved freely, bringing their culture and traditions with them, taking out what was needed, giving back whatever they had.
The festival exhibition addresses these topics in a nomadic way, complimenting the slogan, raising questions and inviting people to the dialogue.
Dmitry Novitsky & Glafira Severianova (RU)
Guided tours in Norwegian, English and Russian around the festival exhibition.
Thursday 5th and Friday 6th: 16.30. Meeting point: Town square.
Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th: 13.00. Meeting point: Town square.
Maximum number of participants: 20.
The festival exhibition will be located in different places around the city center.
The exhibition is open to the public 4-15th of Feb. Hege Annestad Nilsen's exhibition, In Savio's footprints, is open until the end of February.