Stokkøya, Norway, experienced a landslide in September 2019 that temporarily separated the island from the mainland for approximately one month. The Bygda 2.0 project, in collaboration with Åfjord municipality, invites three artists annually to develop site-responsive works engaging with the island’s landscape and social context.
This work responds to the event and its wider environmental and infrastructural conditions, including increasing industrialisation and the expansion of wind energy infrastructure, which local residents have associated with shifts in ecological balance. Materials recovered from the landslide site, including deformed crash barriers, were repurposed to construct a public sculpture installed along the road opposite Bygda 2.0. The installation is accompanied by a sound work incorporating readings of local social media posts documenting residents’ efforts to access the island during the disruption.