Cold Archive
If a site could speak, what would it say?
An artistic research strand led by Kate Roberts inside the Arctic as a Mirror of Global Change residency.
11–25 Aug 2026
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These are the field inquiries currently attached to BBResearch. All of them belong to the upcoming residency, so all of them carry the same status: planned, not delivered.
If a site could speak, what would it say?
An artistic research strand led by Kate Roberts inside the Arctic as a Mirror of Global Change residency.
What are we not hearing?
A field-recording and oral memory strand led by Ricard Franch Hernández.
How do you photograph a scale you cannot stand inside?
An image-based strand led by Zelda Zinn, layering domestic surfaces onto Arctic space.
What happens when the Arctic stops behaving like itself?
A writing strand led by Alexander Lumans: a climate-crisis eco-horror novel set in present-day Svalbard.
What do we damage simply by entering a place we came to admire?
A writing and observation strand led by Cynthia Reeves on whaling histories, abandonment and what remains.
These are the areas where Svalbard give a project something it cannot get elsewhere.
What settlements keep after the work stops: buildings, routines, objects, records and the accounts of people who lived there.
Recording what is not written down — machinery, weather, rooms, and the languages spoken across two settlements with very different populations.
Ice, water and coast observed over short field windows, and the problem of describing slow change from inside a two-week visit.
How fiction, essay and documentary handle a place where safety procedure, wildlife and weather set the limits of the story.