The work first, the biography second. Each card states one central question, the planned inquiry and the intended methods.
What happens when the Arctic stops behaving like itself?
CENTRAL RESEARCH QUESTION
Site observation · field notes · interviews · long-form fiction drafting
A full-length climate-crisis eco-horror novel set in present-day Svalbard:
a polar bear guard, a snowmobile expedition and an environment that becomes harder to explain.
Supplied residency material — illustrated portrait. Documentary photograph required before launch.
How do you picture a place that is too large,
too old and too unstable to fit inside a frame?
CENTRAL RESEARCH QUESTION
Photography · printmaking · painting · sculpture · glass · 3D printing · collage
Overlaying domestic patterns and familiar surfaces onto Arctic space, to test the gap between geological time and the human time in which we experience it.
Supplied residency material — illustrated portrait. Documentary photograph required before launch.
CENTRAL RESEARCH QUESTION
Field recording · oral-history interviews · sound art · audio documentary
Listening to Barentsburg and Pyramiden — ice, water, machines, empty rooms, voices, wind and static — and adding to an archive of testimonies held outside official records.
Supplied residency material — illustrated portrait. Documentary photograph required before launch.
What stories does the Arctic still need us to hear?
CENTRAL RESEARCH QUESTION
Observation · field notes · conversations · archival reading · photography
Continuing fiction and essay work on whaling histories, glaciers, bones and memory — and on the tension between wanting to witness a place and damaging it by entering.
Supplied residency material — illustrated portrait. Documentary photograph required before launch.
What connections do we still need to imagine?
CENTRAL RESEARCH QUESTION
Curation · listening · questioning · producing · cross-disciplinary facilitation
Guiding "Arctic as a Mirror" residents from first impressions to real projects — helping them develop ideas, notice connections and shape research into artistic outcomes. Supports the process, not controls it.
Supplied residency material — illustrated portrait. Documentary photograph required before launch.
What does the Arctic sound like?
CENTRAL RESEARCH QUESTION
Field recording · underwater acoustics · audio storytelling · citizen-generated
Exploring the Arctic through its vibrations, silences, industrial echoes and voices — asking what becomes visible when we begin by listening. Work sits at the intersection of sound, technology, science and social impact.
Supplied residency material — illustrated portrait. Documentary photograph required before launch.
If a site could speak, what would it say?
CENTRAL RESEARCH QUESTION
Walking · photography · moving image · sound · writing · participatory practice
Cold Archive — artistic research into memory, extraction, climate and the afterlife of post-industrial landscapes: empty buildings, old mining routes, water near coal, silence after machinery.
Supplied residency material — illustrated portrait. Documentary photograph required before launch.
