The wave power project (2020-21)
Research project, self-arranged residency and 1-day landscape installation
At the ruinated wave power plant Øygaard, Norway
Fotos by
Mia Carl
and Christine Bouché
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Research project, self-arranged residency and 1-day landscape installation
At the ruinated wave power plant Øygaard, Norway
Fotos by
Mia Carl
and Christine Bouché
< Go back
From 2020 to 2021 I took part in a continuous investigation of the ruined wave power plant in Øygarden, outside of Bergen (NO).
THE WAVE POWER PROJECT was a year-long living performance impossible to capture. Just like an ever changing landscape. Imagery reflects that.
In the 1980s, the plant was built for the first time to harness the immense power of the waves – against the advice of the locals. During a violent autumn storm, it was destroyed. The facility was rebuilt, but yet another storm eventually ruined it completely.
Today, what remains is a kind of hybrid landscape: rocks, concrete, sea, steel, stones, and low vegetation.
The place is truly unique and became the starting point for a continuous project starting in 2019 ending in 2021. In the spring of 2021, the work became more concrete, and we restored an old concrete structure in order to live and work on-site for a longer period.
The research and engagement, struggles and fascination culminated in a collective self-arranged artist residency and 1-day living landscape installatiom with around 100 visitors in June 2021.
The project was made by, and with: Simon Sebastian Laumann (DK), Lukas Moland (NO), Lovisa Ljungberg Carlström (SE), Iivi Meltaus (FI), Sofie Gustafsson Markinhuhta (SE) Imad Alwahibi (SY), Nicola Gunn (AUS), Nikolay Tysse Øberg (NO) and Christine Bouché (NO)
THE WAVE POWER PROJECT was a year-long living performance impossible to capture. Just like an ever changing landscape. Imagery reflects that.
In the 1980s, the plant was built for the first time to harness the immense power of the waves – against the advice of the locals. During a violent autumn storm, it was destroyed. The facility was rebuilt, but yet another storm eventually ruined it completely.
Today, what remains is a kind of hybrid landscape: rocks, concrete, sea, steel, stones, and low vegetation.
The place is truly unique and became the starting point for a continuous project starting in 2019 ending in 2021. In the spring of 2021, the work became more concrete, and we restored an old concrete structure in order to live and work on-site for a longer period.
The research and engagement, struggles and fascination culminated in a collective self-arranged artist residency and 1-day living landscape installatiom with around 100 visitors in June 2021.
The project was made by, and with: Simon Sebastian Laumann (DK), Lukas Moland (NO), Lovisa Ljungberg Carlström (SE), Iivi Meltaus (FI), Sofie Gustafsson Markinhuhta (SE) Imad Alwahibi (SY), Nicola Gunn (AUS), Nikolay Tysse Øberg (NO) and Christine Bouché (NO)