Journeys - Due North

• Main Author: Anderson, Lisa
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Troll; Climate change
• Online Access: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/159335

This installation brings together an art work begun on board a Russian icebreaker with images and ideas of the Trickster, Troll and Huldefolke developed along the Viking routes. Dr Lisa Anderson has been undertaking projects in the Arctic Region for the last decade, as an artist-in-residence on expedition with science teams, and shipping lines and with Polar Centenary expeditions to restage some of the great voyages of the North. The sculptural forms touch on ideas of extreme travel and expedition work, referencing nomadic existence in a world where weather has begun to lose the cyclic seasons. These works ask us to consider these journeys as beautiful and part of the story of the danger which we face as a people by not listening to the folklore, noting the migration of animals and people to understand the geopolitical activity of what has become the new frontier because of Climate Change. The works use photographs, drawing, sculptures and projections to weave a tale which may be opaque to some, but which allows for story-making and storytelling by all who spend the time to engage in the images and sounds.