Where Time is hurt Quietly
Katuaq Greenlands Culture Centre, Nuuk, Greenland
20. January - 4. March 2022
In the exhibition Where Time is hurt Quietly, the audience is invited on a party bus through a dark and winter cold Greenlandic landscape.
On the route 28 students from Nuuk College performs and stages areas in the landscape, especially significant to them. Each performances takes their outset in speculative futuristic scenarios, imagining what Nuuk will look like in 100 years. Through the lenses of 6 different cameras attached to the students, the trip was documented and displayed on 6 mounted screens, in the Gallery at Katuaq Cultural Centre of Greenland Nuuk.
Prior to the exhibition, each location has been carefully photographed every month since august 2021, and portray the slow changes in the landscape, transiting from winter to summer.
Students exhibiting:
Alexander Korneliussen, Aviaja Olsen, Camilla Kleemann, Carla Nielsen, Maja Høy, Maligiaq Rosing, Malik Lundblad, Mark Hard, Mathilde Lynge, Maya Mørch, Mike Egede, Katharina Qvist, Nicolas Naamansen, Nukaartaa Frederiksen, Rita Mølgaard, Rune Brandt, Viggo Høy and teacher Drude Aviaja Larsen.
Documentation: Chris Hobbs
Katuaq Greenlands Cultural Centre Foyer
64°10′53″N 51°41′39″W (2022)
Up under the roof, plastic waste from the retail trade and Nuuk Harbour, props and lights from the performances the party bus, form a floating future planet constructed by the students.
Bus tour (2022)
Video projection of partly censored documentation from inside the party bus.
Technoportraetter
6 channel Video installation
Through new narratives and their own sensuous, speculative and visual universes, the students has fictionalised areas around the landscape 100 years into the future,. The video installation invite its audience close to the intimate narration around a yet unknown future embossed by globalisation and mass extinction.
Aasiaat (2021)
Suspended transparent photographs showcase the transitions in the landscape, observed and captured by the college students.
Aasiaat (2021)
In the lounge 3 audio channels presents readings of speculative narratives imagined and recorded by the students in the north west of Greenland in Aasiaat.