Kite tails, lingonberries and woven islands: the Lofoten International Art Festival unveils its 18th edition
’s Lofoten archipelago. The road runs out little over a mile further on, just beyond the cod liver oil factory, where glaciated peaks plummet unflinchingly into inky sea.
And yet in this outlier of a place lies a historic landmark of modern communications: the world’s second ever wireless signal, transmitted in 1906. For the hundreds of fishermen who flocked to Lofoten for the migrating skrei , the Sørvågen Radio was a critical warning signal during perishing winter storms, as well as an invaluable tool for tracking the fish.
It is this undercurrent of community and connectivity which flows through the 18th edition of Lofoten International Art Festival, titled SPARKS. A nomadic event, Oslo-based curator Kjersti Solbakken chose to situate this edition not in Sørvågen but Svolvaer, the gateway of the archipelago.
For LIAF 2024, an evolved IEIE collective of original and new artists assembled on the cragged shoreline of Svinoya under cyan skies and autumn gusts: kites coaxed skyward by Matisse’s son Robert Monnier; ultrasonic speakers whipping up gull-squawks and fog horns; amongst glowing rowan shrubs and spiralling sea eagles. “If it doesn’t happen, there’s going to be a hole in my astral body”, said Tudor in 1978.
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