New video: Interview with Artica Listens Artist Ignas Krunglevičius

“The composition itself is very much about what I’m thinking now… about now. I communicated my sonic ideas to the building, the building answered. We met, we made the piece.”

For Artica Listens 2021 Ignas Krunglevičius, created HARD BODY DYSPRAXIA, a sonic installation inside a disused coal power plant in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. The power plant was built in 1920 and after WWII saw various extensions and reconstructions. Finally closing down in 1983 when the new larger energy plant took over. Since then the doors have remained closed and the building untouched.

This is the first in a series of new interview videos with our residents discussing their ideas and their work. The interviews will vary in content but will draw attention to topics all relevant to the polar regions. Including our relationship with nature, the climate emergency, the cosmos, community, migration, conflict, politics, technology, art, design, poetry and much more.

This video series is made possible by the generous support of Fritt Ord.

For more information about the Artica Listens 2021 project, go here.

Artist: Ignas Krunglevičius

Film by: Tom Warner

Special Thanks: Kristoffer Breiby, Beate Flak, Yves Guhl, Didrik Paulsen, LPO Architects, Longyearbyen Lokalstyre

Ignas was nominated for a residency at Artica in 2020 by Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA).