Unworlding
Some structures outlive the worlds that built them. Mimerlaven, once built for iron ore extraction, has now been home to Norbergfestival for longer than it served its original purpose.
The mine is an architecture of subtraction: a building made to take from the ground beneath it. To unworld is not to restore the world as it once was, but to inhabit what remains. The void and the leftover are perceived not as damage awaiting correction but as openings and ways through. Not abandoned to be destroyed, or ruined to be fixed. This year's visual arts programme looks at what becomes possible inside a hollowed space: listening into the shafts, drawing power from depleted ground, descending rather than rebuilding.
Across sound installation, sculpture, video, text and performance, the participating artists work in and with the voids the mine left behind — its acoustics and waters, its extracted histories, and the worlds, under and otherwise, that gather in their place.
The following artists are participating as part of Unworlding:
OCO – Susana Santa-Marta and Francisco Tavares Moura (frã)
Andria Nyberg Forshage
lida Jonsson and Ssi Saarinen
Unworlding is presented with support from the Swedish Arts Council.