Ten Short Interviews

In the run-up to the project’s first exhibition Kirunatopia / In the Shadow of the Future at Bildmuseet in Umeå, ten short interviews with the participating artists were published on the blog. The interviews were conducted by the curators Kim Einarsson and Brita Täljedal.


explains why Kiruna differs from other cities in transformation. more… talks about her choice of material, her technique and about what it is like to live in a Sami Goahti. more… shares his thoughts on the act of walking as a research methodology, his guidebook and Kiruna’s lack of a spatial and urban complexity. more… interviewed the oldest living LKAB-worker and explain why they chose a Sami joiker to create music for their work. more… about his work with documentary and fictional material, Kiruna’s multiple rhythms and time scales as well as his idea for a workshop with teenagers in the city. more… grew up in Kiruna and explains what it feels like being a tourist in your own town. more… talks about the challenges of dis- and replacement plus how she, together with 250 inhabitants of Kiruna, physically confronted the crack-line caused by the mine. more… about Toullavaara – the empty territory where Kiruna will be moved. more… about her research and presentation of an art collection that has its roots in the big mining strike at Svappavaara, Malmberget and Kiruna in 1969/1970. more… about the sculpture Measure Point as a marker of a change in Kiruna’s history and his video Ghost Train. more…