Relate North #10: Possible Futures

Description

The Relate North 10 Exhibition showcases individual artworks, and collaborative, community and arts-education projects from across the circumpolar Arctic that engage with this year’s network theme: Possible Futures. Every artist and project has interpreted the theme from their own unique perspective.

Arctic communities are at the forefront of imagining alternative futures in a rapidly changing present. Across the ASAD Network we have many examples of initiatives that are actively working towards creating alternatives; from land-based educational projects to the inclusion of Indigenous language and cultural revitalisation programming, to collaborations between community-led arts-based researchers and scientists.

The project Nordic Connections: Prototype is included in the exhibition through a film that introduces the online mixed media environment produced by participants in the pilot project Nordic Connections: learning from the past to shape the futures.

The project explored two issues that threaten contemporary society — catastrophic climate change and nuclear disaster. The project explores engagement in arts projects as a means to diminish anxiety around the fears linked to these issues and to foster a sustainable future by finding imaginative ways to communicate the impacts of these societal threats.

The radome, a form of Cold War architecture familiar to northern and Arctic communities in NATO’s early defence warning system, forms the basis for the creation of the Prototype which incorporates material created in the project including a film, audio recordings and drawings as well as excerpts from researchers’ presentations about the nuclear threat and marine pollution from micro plastics and marine debris.

Period	28 Jan 2023
Event title	Relate North #10 Exhibition: Possible Futures
Event type	Exhibition
Location	Dawson City, Canada, British ColumbiaShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International