{"id":65780,"date":"2026-10-12T16:09:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/?post_type=event&p=65780"},"modified":"2026-10-13T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T11:02:00","slug":"contingency-sample-orsyning","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/contingency-sample-orsyning\/","title":{"rendered":"A fraction of Contingency Sample"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the occasion of the panel discussions Narrative Sovereignty<\/i> and the screening of\u00a0<\/span>Orsugiak (The White Gold of Greenland)<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>at the Nordic House, a selection of works from\u00a0<\/span>Contingency Sample<\/em>, an exhibition presented at Verksmi\u00f0jan in Hjalteyri in the summer of 2026, will be on view.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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The title refers to the Apollo 11 astronauts, who trained in Iceland to read minerals and landscapes before setting off for the Moon. Upon landing, they were instructed to collect a sample of the lunar surface as soon as possible, in case anything went wrong during the mission. Facing an uncertain future, the exhibition asks what a contingency sample of the Earth might be, and seeks answers in aluminium, a material long entwined with ideas of progress and the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kalaallit Nunaat (cryolite), Iceland (energy and smelting) and Jamaica (bauxite) together form a triangle within global aluminium production, each having historically served as a resource frontier for military and industrial interests. Rather than following a logic based on “spot, grab and go,” the works approach the mine not as a hole in the ground but as a living network of relations that binds distant places together. Within this network, the exhibition takes up scholar T. J. Demos’s question of who has the right to shape the future, and asks where that right resides in worlds that are continually dug up to sustain it.<\/p>\n

Artists:<\/strong> Contact Point Collective (Brynd\u00eds Bj\u00f6rnsd\u00f3ttir, Olando Whyte & Rut Karin Zettergren), Naja Dyrendom Graugaard & Whyte&Zettergren<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Online catalogue for the exhibition Contingency Sample<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Cover photo:<\/strong> Fraction of the first aluminum splash from the Nor\u00f0ur\u00e1l aluminum smelter at Grundartangi in Hvalfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, when the aluminum smelter began operations on June 11, 1998.<\/i><\/p>\n

The exhibition at the Factory \/ Verksmi\u00f0junni was supported by: Icelandic Visual Arts Fund, Nordic Culture Fund, Nordic Culture Point Mobility, Danish Art Council, SSNE, H\u00f6rg\u00e1rsveit and Svensk-isl\u00e4ndska samarbetsfonden<\/em><\/p>\n

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Accessibilty in The Nordic House Atrium is good. <\/em>
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