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SOLID AMID. TVERD POSREDI

research

multimedia installation

National Library, Salekhard, 2024

The installation Solid Amid brings together documents, artifacts, and data I collected during research in Salekhard, from a fragment of a casing pipe (object 0. Isolation) to a mammoth bone keychain (object 00. Ngani-ya, meaning «foreign or someone else’s land » in ural language group). The entry point was an abandoned experimental field of the Agricultural Research Station, where scientists in the 1930s attempted to cultivate plants under the extreme climatic conditions of permafrost. Typically associated with idyllic rural landscapes, this field is located within the city limits, is of limited size, and, as a foreign element—a relic of attempts at settlement in an originally nomadic space—drew my attention. It became a kind of entry point into the attempts to establish contact with the hyperobject of permafrost—a deceptive firmament amidst which the problem of coexistence takes on the dimension of a question about co-survival.

 

The research was conducted as part of the GES-2 Cities program, in collaboration with Efim Khorolya, Zoya Khudi, Sergey Babkin, and other team members, as well as scientists from the Scientific Center for Arctic Studies: geophysicist Alexander Shein and cryologist Valentina Palamarchuk, as well as with the union of indigenous people.

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