Introduction to the Long Term Game project

2022-25

Work in progress: Filmed workshop at Scene USF


Studio USF, USF Verftet, Bergen, Nov. 2022
3 hours, 8 representatives from from Fellesforbundet Worker’s Union Dept.5, the government parties AP (Labour) and SP, +AUF
Video: Ben Speck og Runa Halleraker
Lyd: Paal Terje Nygård
Foto: ©Runa Halleraker, ©Ben Speck, ©Jannecke Heien

What goes on in our heads when we have to assess risks farter ahead than the commonly comprehendable 15 years? What kind of impact could visualization in physical 3D and spacial composition have on our ability to think 50-100 years into the future? Which new technologies and energy sources do we think of as solutions to both the climate and biological cricis, and which adjustments in our consumption do we foresee in order to achieve an absolute decoupling?

On Nov. 24th. 2022, 8 representatives from the unions and the Norw. government parties participated in a private discussion and art workshop i physical 3D, focusing on future perspectives on emissions from consumption, and the limited supply of non-renewable resources.
Challenge: How will decoupling of economical growth from the expenditure of non-renewable resources and climate gas emissions be possible - 50 years ahead?
(Absolute and/or relative decoupling)

Curiosity towards the elasticity of our ability to envision, acknowledgement through a moment’s action, and the intersection between elements both meaningful and absurd - may may stand as key words for the initiative. The project seeks out the challenges met in involvement with, and interaction between, individuals with differing points of view. It is about two traditions of visualization and it offers exchange be-tween agents with a thin history of cooperation.
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2016

Workshop and exhibition installation and sound, Kunsthall 3,14 February 2016

In February 2016, 4 portfolio managers from Nordea Investment Management accepted invitation from an artist to come to the gallery space of Kunsthall 3,14. They met peers for a workshop in this 19th century neo renaissance bank building of Bank of Norway—in order to look 100-200-years ahead and think aloud on one question: Why and how is infinite economic growth possible? The participants were to explain their assertions and render these logic to the artist, here representing an exhibition audience. Based on their own choice of theory, the economists discussed their answers to the question through visualizing relations in physical 3D, arguing for figures and scale in a 100-year perspective. In dialogue with the initiating artist they made a choice of a figure relation essential to their discussion. After a crash course in form/spacial composition our collaboration resulted in a visual representation of these two figures in the old bank vault, where Bank of Norway kept their values right up until 1989. Alongside this installation, a soundtrack featuring their discussions constituted the exhibition that opened in the vault the week after. Video and photographs from the 2014 workshop were exhibited in the old elevator and cloakroom close to the vault.

Curiosity towards the elasticity of our ability to envision, acknowledgement through action of the moment, and the intersection between elements both meaningful and absurd - may may stand as key words. These happenings seek out the challenges of thinking far ahead together with The Other, as individuals with differing points of view. It is about trying out visualization as a means to comprehend and recognize, and it offers exchange between agents with a thin history of cooperation.

Notions from fog. Long Term Game project description, Jannecke Heien

©Jannecke Heien

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