News from Artica Alumni

Photo: Susan Schuppli, April 2022

In April this year Susan Schuppli an artist-researcher based in the UK, joined us for a residency. During her stay Schuppli produced the project COMMUNITY SATELLITE STATION a series of conversations with scientists and locals all of whom are involved in sending, receiving and listening to signals from Svalbard.

How might we attune ourselves to the transmissional geographies of climate change and also relay knowledge about such changes? What kinds of signals is Svalbard sending us today?

Guided by these questions Schuppli set out to document and record some of the telecommunications infrastructures that dot this remote landscape and listen to the stories and experiences that are attached to these transformative cyrospheric ecologies.

You can read more about the project and listen to the tracks here.

Susan Schuppli was nominated by Artica’s key partner Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA). The Community Satellite Station was produced in collaboration with OCA Norway and the Toronto Biennial of Art.