hello X

Our last full episode for season one of the hello X podcast will be in Norwegian, but fear not, you can find an english transcript of the episode if you scroll down to ‘English transcript, The innocents”. Christine will be back in a few weeks with a short 'podlet' with an update on the the AR story experience, climate strikes and more.

Googler en bilder av ‘arktisk tundra’ vil en kanskje med første øyekast tenke at “her finnes det ikke mye liv”. Men ser en litt nærmere, vil en finne et mangfold av dyr og planter. Noen av disse er truet på grunn av klimaendringer. Hva skjer hvis en art minsker i antall eller...forsvinner helt? Hva kan det gjøre med resten av økosystemet den er en del av?

Kunstner Marit Landsend (keramiker basert på Troms Fylkeskultursenter, Tromsø) og forsker Dorothee Ehrich (Klimaøkologisk Obsersvasjonssystem for Arktisk Tundra - COAT, UiT) ønsker begge å utforske disse temaene, fra hvert sitt ståsted. Vi blir med de inn i en samtale om klimaendringer, fjellrev og smågnagere på den arktiske tundraen, og spør: hva kan vi mennesker gjøre?

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LENKER FOR MER INFORMASJON

Dorothee Ehrich: https://uit.no/om/enhet/ansatte/person?p_document_id=41186&p_dimension_id=88165

Marit Landsend: http://www.maritlandsend.no/file/Welcome.html (http://www.maritlandsend.no/file/Welcome.html)

COAT - Klimaøkologisk Observarsjonssystem for Arktisk Tundra: https://www.coat.no

Arktiske arter kan dø ut: https://framsenteret.no/arkiv/arktiske-arter-kan-doe-ut-5062774-146437/

Smågnagere på tundraen: https://www.coat.no/Smagnagere

Dyr og klimaendringer:

https://www.wwf.no/klima-og-energi/dyr-og-klimaendringer

https://www.miljostatus.no/tema/klima/klimainorge/klimaendringer-norsk-natur/

https://www.artsdatabanken.no/Rodliste/Klimaendringer

https://www.miljostatus.no/isbjorn

Filosof Arne Johan Vetlesen: https://morgenbladet.no/profil/arne-johan-vetlesen

Polarrev/Arctic Fox: https://en.wikipedia.

How do you feel...now, dig deep...how do you FEEL about a world without polar bears, bees or whales? How much should we care about the decline of seagulls who annoy us at outdoor cafés? Are we all in the same boat? Listen to scientists and others philosophizing, talking science and emotions at Fritt Fram, an open day at FRAM - the high north research centre for climate and the environment (https://framsenteret.no/), in Tromsø, Northern Norway.In this episode we meet Rosemary, Ken and Katherine from the UK chatting and laughing about turning 70, about the past, future and being in the same boat. We talk to marine biologist Pedro Duarte (Norwegian Polar Institute (http://www.npolar.no/en/) and member of Fram flagship on Sea Ice), dancer Mathilda Caeyers and producer Marina Borovaya (Ice-9) about whales, climate change and species disappearing. We talk about the link between science, art and emotions.Pedro brings up the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio @damasiousc (https://www.facebook.com/damasiousc/#), who wrote ‘Descartes Error’, where he demonstrates that emotions are essential to rational thinking and normal social behaviour.

Links:Blue whale: physical description, behaviour, history and recovery of populations: http://wwf.panda.org/knowledge_hub/endangered_species/cetaceans/about/blue_whale/ (http://wwf.panda.org/knowledge_hub/endangered_species/cetaceans/about/blue_whale/)Trailer to the theatre play ‘Sykle i snøstorm’, at Hålogaland theatre in Tromsø (referred to by Marina): https://youtu.be/_oeyCR2D_Ck (https://youtu.be/_oeyCR2D_Ck)Descartes Error, by (neuroscientist) Antonio Damasio: https://www.amazon.com/Descartes-Error-Emotion-Reason-Human/dp/014303622X (https://www.amazon.com/Descartes-Error-Emotion-Reason-Human/dp/014303622X)

Credits:

HelloX partners include:Tromsø municipalityThe Nansen legacy research projectThe North Norwegian Art MuseumNorwegian art councilSparebanken KulturnæringsstiftelsenFram - the High North Research Centre for Climate and the Environment with it’s flagships:1. Environmental impact of industrial development in the north (MIKON)2. Effects of climate change on sea and coastal ecology in the north3.Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, technology and agreements,4.Hazardous substances – effects on ecosystems and human health,5.Effects of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems, landscapes, society and indigenous peoplesMusic by MetatagHello X is supported by:The Norwegian art council,Sparebank Northern Norway,The free speach foundationInnovation Norway  Koro -public art norway.   Hello x is produced by Ice-9, with:Christine Cynn, Anneli Stiberg and Valentin Manz.Associate producers include Marina Borovaya and Annika Wistrøm.Sound mix by Nathanael Gustin.Digital design by Ismet Bachtiar

Storygenerator developed by Furkle Industries

Will your grandkids build only digital sandcastles? What ghosts may roam the riverbanks of tomorrow's virtual nature? Hear Sami-language novelist Sigbjørn Skåden (https://www.versopolis-poetry.com/poet/67/sigbjrn-skden) and game designer Ismet Bachtiar (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ismet-bachtiar-4532a051/) and host Christine Cynn how the idea of virtual nature entered the X fiction world, now being developed for publication in 2019. Personalize a scenario with the online story generator on the hello X WRITE page (https://hellox.me/write/) at https://hellox.me/write/

Virtual nature was originally proposed by writer Sigbjørn Skåden as a substitute for the actual outdoors for X in 2068 in Northern Norway. Ismet and Christine are currently setting a new short story within the fictional virtual nature for an augmented reality story experience X50 (https://www.facebook.com/message2X/videos/1939985352744254), to be launched in central Tromsø autumn 2019. Listen to the three discuss privatization, sea level rise, nostalgia and loss in the Arctic. We discuss what places we might like to upload into virtual nature for X, and the stories attached to these places.

Virtual nature is one element in a fiction world being developed in experimental story workshops with writers, artists, scientists and young people in Northern Norway and internationally. The first story experiments date back to 2011 and became intensive in 2016 as the core project of the startup arts/media organization Ice-9 in Tromsø, Northern Norway. For more information listen to episode 1: Who is X? (https://hellox.me/podcast/33360611/) and read ABOUT hello X and Ice-9 here (https://hellox.me/about/).

 

More from Sigbørn Skåden on the ghost children that live on the riverbanks by his childhood home in Northern Norway (from https://www.versopolis-poetry.com/poet/67/sigbjrn-skden) (https://www.versopolis.com/poet/67/sigbjrn-skden/poem/823/untitled)

Notes From a Backwoods Saami Core (from 19 to 24)Note 19Down by a place where two rivers meet there is a meadow. If the time is right he who passes here will hear infants crying. These are the unwanted new-borns, left here to die by a desperate father or mother. Every seventh year these children return to the place where they were abandoned. We call them eahpádusak, human apocrypha trapped between existing and never having existed. That is why they return. That is why they cry. Only by performing an ancient baptising ritual all may be alleviated. Only then it will all be over.

 

Original text prepared for a workshop with teenagers in Longyearbyen, Svalbard October 2018 by Sigbjørn Skåden with performance maker Leo Kay (UK). More about the development of this character and scenario in the hello X MEET forum (https://forum.hellox.me/t/x-in-arctic-city-working-for-a-multinational-water-corporation/51/3?u=copopod):

X is a young woman, 23 years of age. She lives in a town by the sea. X is single, but shares a three bedroom flat with two other people. Her work is an administrative officer position at the local branch of a global clean water resource company called Mountain Fresh. The company owns all lakes and waterways in the region surrounding X’s town, and clean water is being carried in pipes down to the seashore and pumped onto tanker ships that transport Mountain Fresh clean water to destinations around the world.Question 1: What would X be like if you were to decide? Describe her in 3 words.Question 2: How does X feel about being single?Question 3: What is it like to work for Mountain Fresh?X’s town is governed and regulated by the municipality,

Hey...where’s the baby food? Atlantic Puffins in Lofoten are beautiful and possibly in trouble. Puffins travel thousands of miles to gather on ancient breeding cliffs. Hardworking parents can fly 100 km a day and dive 60 m deep to ...

Salmon, seaweed, or wormballs on the menu in 2068? Can we really manage nature? And what’s the matter with humans anyway?

Five polar scientists discuss how future (and present-day) humans fit into the Arctic bioenergetic food system. Why might X benefit from eating more vegetables (or being one)? Do humans want to farm in the sea with the same strategies used on land? What is multi-trophic aquaculture?

Meet Lis Lindal Jørgensen, marine biologist at the Institute of Marine Research in Tromsø and leader of the FRAM (High North Research Centre for Climate and the Environment) flagship research program on Effects of climate change on sea and coastal ecology in the north), Pedro Duarte, researcher at the Norwegian Polar Institute specializing in Arctic marine ecosystem modeling and contributor to the FRAM flagship research program on Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, technology and agreements, Elina Haltunnen, marine biologist at the Institute of Marine Research specializing in the impacts of aquaculture on wild fish, Ann Eileen Lennert, environmental anthropologist with Ice-9 and the Polar Museum at University of Tromsø (hear more about Ann Eileen in episode 1), and Sigurd Tønnessen, philosopher of science at University of Tromsø and member of the Environmental Philosophy Research Group.

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Hear also about the hello X March to the Future a parade through the streets of central Tromsø behind a ceremonial ship of dreams wearing seaweed and boats on our heads and led by the epic all-female drum corps, the Tromsø Tamborene. Check out links below to videos, pictures, and press coverage from the March to the Future. Email us a voicememo at [email protected] and tell us what time it is on the clock of the earth. Thanks to Chin Keeler, Mikey Weinkove, the Tromsø Tamborene, Northern Norway Art Museum, and Polaria Science Center, Vårscenefest… and special thanks to all the amazing participants!

Finally, Christine’s 12-yr old nephew Sebastian speculates on what his future daughter might cook him for dinner in 2068.

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March to the Future convocation:

Welcome earthlings.

We welcome you all to the other side of today. This former post office, police office, art museum… What do you picture here in 2068? A virtual playground, a makeshift hospital, a beach?

Salutations from your unborn children, your thriving grandchildren, and great grandchildren. If you remember us, we may remember you.

Before all of us, there were all of you. Before all of you, one hundred billion homo sapiens walked this planet. Every single one had a story. From the Gállá-bártnit, descended from the sun, to the driftwood that made Ask and Embla, to our mitochondrial Eve.

Every single one of you in 2018 is living a story. Each life is a story to be told, re-mixed, told again.

Which songs or joiks will X sing in 50 years? Which songs or joiks will we have forgotten?

In this bonus episode of the hello X podcast you will meet Elina Waage Mikalsen, Katarina Barruk and Marja Helena Fjellheim Morten...

Hvilke sanger/joiker vil X synge om femti år? Hvilke sanger/joiker vil vi ha glemt?

I denne bonusepisoden av hello X-podcasten møter du Elina Waage Mikalsen, Katarina Barruk og Marja Helena Fjellheim Mortensson, tre artister og kunstnere.

Ice-9 teamet møtte Elina, Katarina og Marja i 2016 under Riddu Riđđu, en festival med fokus på å bygge opp stolthet og bevissthet rundt det å være samisk og fra andre urfolk gjennom musikk- og kulturopplevelser.

Både Elina, Katarina og Marja har på hvert sitt tidspunkt blitt kåret til årets unge kunstner under Riddu Riđđu. Dette året tok de del i prosjektet Riddu Sessions, hvor de laget nye sanger og joiker for festivalen.

De tre artistene forteller om sine hjertesaker, om musikk, minner med besteforeldre, identitet, språk og joiking...om fortiden, nåtiden og framtiden.

Se en video av Katarina Barruk sin beskjed til X i sin helhet på umesamisk (med svensk oversettelse på slutten) her: https://forum.hellox.me/t/singer-katarina-barruk-sends-a-message-to-her-future-granddaughter-in-sami-swedish/132?u=copopod

Mye av musikken du hører i episoden er laget av Elina, Katarina og Marja, fra tiden under Riddu Sessions, med produsent/artist Peder Niilas Tårnesvik og mentorene Sara Marielle Gaup og Ole Jørn Myklebust. Info om Riddu Sessions: http://riddu.no/nb/program/riddu-sessions

Noen av sangene og/eller joikene er artistenes egne.

Mer info om artistene og deres musikk finner du blant annet her:

Marja Helena Fjellheim Mortensson: http://www.marjamortensson.no

Katarina Barruk: @katarinabarrukmusicpage

Elina Waage Mikalsen: https://kreativenord.no/actor/elina-waage-mikalsen/ , https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/blood-forest-family/1194089282

Du hører også tradisjonelle joiker som er hentet fra arkivmateriale.

Kjenningsmelodien for podcasten av Metatag.

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Utdrag fra sanger/joiker sunget/joiket av Elina Waage Mikalsen, Katarina Barruk og Marja Helena Fjellheim Mortensson i episoden etter rekkefølge:

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Nyfødt kalv-joik, joiket av Marja Helena Fjellheim Mortensson.

Utdrag fra Riddu Riđđu-sangen som ble laget under Riddu Sessions. I utdraget hører du Elina Waage Mikalsen synge.

Utdrag fra sang skrevet av Elina Waage Mikalsen, framført av Elina, Marja og Katarina.

Utdrag fra Riddu Riđđu-Sangen, som ble laget under Riddu Sessions. I utdraget hører du Katarina Barruk og Marja Helena Fjellheim Mortensson synge og joike.