S3E9: (After) Coal 2
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Host: Lutz Koepnick
Last summer, host Lutz Koepnick traveled to Svalbard with filmmaker Jonathan Rattner and visual artist Jana Harper as part of a research project exploring art, climate change, and resilience in the Polar North. In this second of three episodes devoted to the Svalbard experience, Jana Harper reflects on the collages and color studies she created during her time in the Arctic and her efforts to make art that breaks with historical traditions of extraction. We also hear from Svalbard-based photographer Eva Grøndal; Charlotte (“Lotte”) Hetherington, the former director of Artica; and Katrine Loen, co-founder of the Arctic World Archive, about different ways of imagining a future for the Arctic archipelago beyond its history of coal mining.
For more about visual artist Jana Harper, visit her website: https://janaharper.com/
For more about filmmaker Jonathan Rattner: https://www.jonathanrattner.com/
For more about Artica: https://www.articasvalbard.no/
For more about the Arctic World Archive: https://arcticworldarchive.org/
For more about the exhibition, Tidslag / Layers of Time – Everyday Life in Svalbard, and the contributions of Eva Grøndal, her parents Herta and Leif Grøndal, and her daughter musician Aggie Grøndal Peterson (Aggie Frost), see https://nnkm.no/en/tidslag-hverdagsliv-p%C3%A5-svalbard.
Additional materials quoted in this episode:
Werner Herzog, Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
Susan Schuppli, Signals from Svalbard (https://susanschuppli.com/SIGNALS-FROM-SVALBARD-1)
Kåre Tveter Galleri Lyshuset – En film av Olaf Rudolfsen (2017) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdNjA-E_3Tk)
Aggie Frost, “Aurora Lilly,” Tidslag (Layers of Time) (https://www.aggiefrost.no/projects/tidslag)
GitHub Arctic Code Vault (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzI9FNjXQ0o)
This episode was made possible with the generous support from the Program in Communication and Science and Technology (CSET) and the Curb Center
for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy, both at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.