How can we address future challenges through materials of the past?
NBAA is the foundation of artistic research initiative that seeks to preserve and reactivate the legacy of "The International Nyksund Project" (INP) through media art and materials of the archive.
The INP was a 1980´s eco-topian venture initiated by students and professors from West-Berlin taking place in the former fisher village of Nyksund in Northern Norway between 1984 and 1992. Read about NBAA´s background and the history of the International Nyksund Project here.
NBAA is the first prototype of an Artistic Archive that will continue to expand and grow with new donations and new artistic works responding to the archive. The Artistic Archive is currently only displaying a small number of images from its donated collection, and will continue to expand the online archive with more material, as the project evolves.
Our growing collection of images, documents, and videos from the International Nyksund Project (1984-1992) has been steadily expanding through new donations. Once scattered across the lofts and cellars of former participants, these materials are now being actively collected, digitized, and made publicly accessible. Our goal is to create an archive for you to explore, in the hope that the materials here will inspire your own projects and future visions.
The Artistic Archive is Artistic in the sense that it not only will be a searchable archive, but also serve as grounds for new artistic and scientific responses to its rich heritage, in the forms of new works, texts, symposiums or workshops.
Led by Elisabeth Brun and Katja Pratschke, NBAA is developed by the NODES Collective, which emerged from the NYKSUND RELOADED project.
NODES collective includes key contributors such as Elisabeth Brun, Katja Pratschke, Gusztáv Hámos, Nicole B. Pedersen, Ivar Kjellmo, and Rune Mikkelborg. The project‘s development is closely tied to the contributions and insights of former INP participants, including Grethe Andreassen, Wolfgang Eschenhorn, Burkhard Herrmann, Anne Beate Hovind, and Harald Sommer, among others. The archive is developed in collaboration with the think tank Urbanum, represented by Gezá Kulszar and Laura Luga. The project has generously been supported by Nordic Culture Fund, Kulturaustauschstipendien des Landes Berlin, Dansk Komponistforening, The EU MObility Fund, Goethe Institute Oslo and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Berlin.
The NBAA ARTISTIC ARCHIVE is the locus of our project. In relation to the NBAA ARCHIVE there is also an ARENA and a NETWORK.
The ARENA is a digital model of Fryseriet, an old industry building in Nyksund that faces demolition. The digital model is rendered through Photogrammetry from 18000 photographs. All floors and all sides are digitized. Fryseriet is being developed into a VR work and digital artistic arena for exhibitions, events and screenings. More information about the ARENA will soon be connected to this website.
The NETWORK is a global network of art and architecture projects in Europe and beyond, working towards sustainable place development in marginalized areas. Several of the projects work in remote areas that are abandoned, gentrified or which are about to lose their young population. More information about the NETWORK will soon be connected to this website.