Artists Talk: Messages in the Polar Night - An evening with Artica’s current residents Amy Hoagland and Kathy Sirico

Monday 8 December, 18:00 - 19:30
Artica Workshop, Longyearbyen
Free and open to all – no booking required.

If you are curious about what Artica’s current residents are working on, join us for an evening of presentations and open studio with artists Amy Hoagland and Kathy Sirico. This informal gathering offers a chance to hear about their practices, learn how their projects are unfolding on Svalbard, and enjoy warm soup in good company.

About the artists:
Amy Hoagland is a sculptor whose work explores the human relationship with the environment through the lens of geological time. Her installations draw on slow natural processes—wind, soil movement, shifting ice—to challenge how we perceive change. During her residency, Amy is expanding her research from previous Arctic fieldwork, using daily “acts of relationality” with the landscape to document and reflect on the rhythms of Svalbard. Her work combines video, photography, poetry, and sculptural experiments inspired by glacial movement.

Kathy Sirico is a Brooklyn-based artist and poet working across painting, textiles, and installation, with climate change and ecological grief at the core of her practice. In Svalbard, she is advancing two intertwined projects: Svalbard Abstractions, a series of mixed-media works inspired by Arctic geology and light; and Svalbard Mythologies, a poetic exploration of interspecies narratives—from conversations with melting glaciers to imagined voices of whale bones.