As an artist with a social practice i am pleased to have been selected for the project Kunstvisitten at Nitja.

I have made work exploring domesticity and climate change. I am thinking about the ‘tacit’ knowledge passed down through families and communities. For example when we used ot collect berries and make jam together, or harvest as a community. Now the ripening is so much earlier and modern life so mechanised. We can get any food anytime - no longer seasonal.

What do we choose to save, which knowledge? Salt can preserve and taint. The langpanne is a reductive metaphor for the cooking/roasting earth, but what knowledge do we save? I am also thinking of handicrafts, making feet, and sewing. The map pants are made from a real paper pattern from a sewing shop.

Image 1 Emergency Comfort - a fire blanket, silver blanket and baby comfort blanket

Image 2 Footsteps - suggestive of absence, presence, past and future.

Image 3 Detail of Wellington boots in a freezer draw - it should be ice but looks more like water. Children’s boots as a metaphor for and of hope

Image 4 and 5 - preservation of knowledge

Image 6 Map Pants and boots

Kunstvisitten at the Nitja Center for Contemporary Art is a production and dissemination department that shows and disseminates art to 14 different activity centers, day centers and health institutions within mental health.

The mission of Kunstvisitten is to show and communicate professional art to residents and users of the various institutions, which range from open activity centers to closed units. Through seeing and talking about art, the focus and gaze of the participants is shifted to the art, and conversation and dialogue are emphasized in the art communication.