120 Hours - Exhibition

500 futures of Svalbard

In the 2019 edition of the 120 Hours the team had the opportunity to collaborate with Artica Svalbard, a foundation that facilitates artistic and cultural activities on Svalbard.

The theme for the competition was to imagine a character, and explore how an invasive structure or installation created on behalf of this characters can impact Svalbard over a period of one hundred years.

After the successful jury process in ROM gallery, Oslo, the 120 Hours team was invited to exhibit the 500 entries in a house that is in the process of being torn down as it is one of several houses to remain in the danger-zone of future avalanches.

The exhibition space is divided into colored walls. This categorizes the entries into different themes, and each uniformly colored segment correlates to a category.

All the entries used in the jury process in Oslo, were neatly taken down, and transported to Svalbard to be displayed again.

Artica: Giancarlo Scaglia, Didrik Paulsen, Eli Skatvedt

Johanne Hoffmann, Kathrine Vangen, Nora Marie B. Kilstad, Anne Lise Lizcano Ladegård, Gustav Cederblad Stamnes, Tarjei Østrem Svalastog, Jan Kazimierz Godzimirski