Sørfinnset skole/ the nord land

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Sørfinnset skole / the nord land presents Museet (The Museum), including memorabilia objects and material fragments carrying memories and connections from the projects’ 21 years of history. It also premiers the TV episode “Vi snakker med fjellet (We talk with the Mountain)” from Sørfinnset TV, the annual broadcasting part of the project which started in 2019. This year´s TV episode dwells on the complexities of the natural environment, natural resources, coexistence, the green shift and blue economies.

Sørfinnset skole / the nord land has its roots in Kunstneriske forstyrrelser (Artistic Interruptions), a county-wide project in Nordland, curated by Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk. The artists Søssa Jørgensen and Geir Tore Holm were invited to work in Gildeskål municipality and were given a base in the disused school in the village of Sørfinnset. Here, they collaborated with Kamin Lertchaiprasert and Rirkrit Tiravanija − the founders of the landin Sampatong outside Chang Mai in northern Thailand − on the foundation of Sørfinnset skole / the nord land.

The project is supported by Arts and Culture Norway, KORO / LOK, Nordland county Council and Gildeskål Municipality.

Sørfinnset skole / the nord land is a contemporary art project based on a place specific, socially engaged learning process, devoted to collective living, making and thinking. The collective has an emphasis on dialogue, long term commitment and an experimental form of value production which connects different traditions and experiences. It is a forever lasting work started in 2003, with focus on relationships with nature, knowledge exchange and small-scale architecture in a broad understanding of aesthetics and ecological realisms.