Exhibition opening at the Polar Museum in Tromsø

In autumn 2016, the Polar Museum invited Katja Aglert to do an art project for the museum. Based on comprehensive fieldwork in relation to the museum, Aglert has composed the dynamic work Antifreeze: Rehearsals as Score. The artwork consists of a 60 days long ongoing video work which changes on a daily basis throughout the entire exhibition period by displaying a new version every day. The work can be seen in the Polar Museum’s permanent exhibition during the exhibition period which is identical to the polar night in Tromsø, from 21 November to 21 January. The basis for Antifreeze: Rehearsals as Score is Aglert’s concern with the everyday experience which often has remained merely an implicit part of the last century’s western, imperialist, typically masculine and heroic representations of polar history.

Katja Aglert lives in Stockholm. Her artistic practice is transdisciplinary. Topics examined in Aglert’s art projects are storytelling, the relationships between ideas of nature and culture, intersectionality, performativity and ecological questions. The mediums used by Aglert vary from context to context, and are determined by the location of the specific project and examinations conducted on that location.

Aglert’s previous exhibitions include The breath between the rustle of dead leaves and the shadow of a tale (Stockholm 2016), For a gentle song would not shake us if we had never heard a loud one (Oslo 2016), Winter Event – Antifreeze (Bogotá, Colombia and Santiago, Chile 2015), and Voyage to the Virtual (New York 2015).
For more information about Aglert’s artistic practice, see: http://katjaaglert.com/

Hanne Hammer Stien is curator of Antifreeze: Rehearsals as Score. She works as a lecturer at the Academy of Contemporary Art and Creative Writing in Tromsø and is also a freelance curator and writer. Stien is the editor of the anthology Vit at jeg elsker deg: Om kunst og sted (2015) and has recently curated the relocation of a painting by Inger Sitter to the primary school Baksalen in Hammerfest. Read more about Stien’s projects here: www.hannehammerstien.no

Read more about Antifreeze: Rehearsals as Score here: uit.no/antifreeze