NEPTUN
ART/
SCIENCE
LAB
Neptun Art/Lab is a physical and theoretical hub and project space, conceived to sit at the Intersection between Art and Science and located at the Norwegian Fishing Industry Museum, North Norway. This project is a collaborative initiative between Nordland Akademi for Kunst og Vitenskap and Museum Nord.
Herring oil was produced at Neptun for more than 70 years, and now it is home to the Norwegian Fishing Industry Museum. The Lab functions as a hub and lab for artistic, hypothetical and conceptual research in the field of art - science with the main focus on new ways of harvesting the sea; new ways of processing what we harvest from the sea and our challenges related to the sea and climate, through the use of experimental and new technology.
This project builds on a belief that collaboration and participation opens up for wonder and exploration and that this is where thoughts and concepts are given the opportunity to grow into new innovative and novel ideas and concepts.
For 2016 - 2017 we invited artists already engaged in conceptual thinking around issues that affect the sea, technology related to the sea, the future of the sea platter and the importance of history and how it can serve as a compass to the future.
For 2018 we invited back Artist Developers, this time under the artistic leadership of Alice Helps.
For 2019 we have invited three Norwegian musicians along with a contemporary dance artist and video editor, a cinematographer and motion graphics artist, and a visual artist. As a collective, they will produce a "Tank performance" called "A wordless song of man and sea".
Neptun Art/Lab is a physical and theoretical hub and project space, conceived to sit at the Intersection between Art and Science and located at the Norwegian Fishing Industry Museum, North Norway. This project is a collaborative initiative between Nordland Akademi for Kunst og Vitenskap and Museum Nord.
Herring oil was produced at Neptun for more than 70 years, and now it is home to the Norwegian Fishing Industry Museum. The Lab functions as a hub and lab for artistic, hypothetical and conceptual research in the field of art - science with the main focus on new ways of harvesting the sea; new ways of processing what we harvest from the sea and our challenges related to the sea and climate, through the use of experimental and new technology.
This project builds on a belief that collaboration and participation opens up for wonder and exploration and that this is where thoughts and concepts are given the opportunity to grow into new innovative and novel ideas and concepts.
For 2016 - 2017 we invited artists already engaged in conceptual thinking around issues that affect the sea, technology related to the sea, the future of the sea platter and the importance of history and how it can serve as a compass to the future.
For 2018 we invited back Artist Developers, this time under the artistic leadership of Alice Helps.
For 2019 we have invited three Norwegian musicians along with a contemporary dance artist and video editor, a cinematographer and motion graphics artist, and a visual artist. As a collective, they will produce a "Tank performance" called "A wordless song of man and sea".