Field: Process | Mixed media | 2011

Field: Process is an audio-visual installation, exploring two coastal fishermen's daily life. We meet two brothers who preserve a thousand-year-long fishing tradition in Lofoten where the ties and dependence between nature, people and society are maintained through generations of inherited practices. These practices are under pressure from several developments that supersede and neglect the knowledge they carry: young people move away from the coastal fishing in search of other possibilities, popular culture worship urbanism, fishing policy worship the rationalization logic - and the petroleum industry pushes for new areas to develop. People live their lives in the midst of these processes. Ivar and Henrik bought a boat, they are renovating their house and fight for the survival of their kids' school.

The exhibition is an installation that takes the observer into the fishing fields of Lofoten. The interactivity of the installation gives the passive observer an opportunity to become an active participant, by manipulating and controlling the every day routine of the fishermen. By composing the images, sounds and activities of a fisherman’s day, the participant may get the feeling of the rhythm and intensity of a lifestyle. FIELD: Process is made with support from PLAN and the University of Oslo.

Carsten Aniksdal | 2011