This week we are pleased to welcome Artica’s newest resident, Susan Schuppli

Susan Schuppli and Henry Bradley, Cinematographer at SvalSat in Longyearbyen  Photo by: Lisa Bøen, Artica Residency and Studio Coordinator

This week we are pleased to welcome Artica’s newest resident, Susan Schuppli to Longyearbyen. 

Susan is an artist-researcher based in the UK whose work examines material evidence from war and conflict to environmental disasters and climate change. Current work is focused on the politics of cold and is organised by the provocation of “Learning from Ice”.

During the residency Susan will be researching for a project entitled Svalbard Community Satellite Station, which is a series of “live” audio transmissions and/or podcasts from the Svalbard Arctic Archipelago. Produced and hosted by Schuppli during an artist-research residency in April 2022 and shared as part of the public programme at this year’s Toronto Biennial of Art.  

This community satellite initiative is supported by Artica Svalbard and the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) and confronts the official presence of the controversial SvalSat (Svalbard Satellite Station), one of Europe’s largest information gathering and transmission stations. Schuppli will conduct a series of broad-ranging discussions with a diverse set of participants as an experiment in “counter-listening” to explore some of the submerged histories and contemporary urgencies that connect the local politics of Svalbard to issues in the Arctic region more broadly. 

Susan Schuppli has been nominated by our key partner Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA)