Alice Máselníková
  • about
    • biography
    • statement
    • press
  • portfolio
    • painting
    • drawings
    • performance
    • sculpture >
      • - 2015 partial bodies
      • 2014 the womb
      • 2012 us/flesh
      • 2011 fetus
      • 2011 grimace
    • text >
      • insomnities & other poetry
      • articles and essays
      • the anima, the body and the space: dialogues
  • exhibitions and projects
    • 2018 Elektrozavod, Moscow
    • 2017 Their first time with Tomte
    • 2017 YIA Basel
    • 2017 Red Salt: Big Arty Bang
    • 2017 Artarctica
    • 2016 Hudnära
    • 2015 BCCA mini residency
    • 2015 Wanderers' Tales
    • 2015 SMart Stretch & Active Bread Exchange
    • 2014 Prosthetic Poetry at Cockenzie House
    • 2014 degree show
    • 2014 dainty rogues In porcelain
    • 2014 translations
    • 2013 the undesirable
    • 2013 are we any different
    • 2011 eat my bear
  • curating
    • 2017 chemicalmoonBABY
    • 2017 Decentralised Identity
    • 2017 Campbasel Revisited (guest speaker)
    • 2017 Code /kəʊd/
    • 2016 Per Forma
    • 2016 Hej Hej PALS
    • 2016 Games
    • 2015 Dark Barn
  • contact

VI.

4/8/2017

0 Comments

 
I met with Nina, a young chatty girl who wants to study languages and then leave to Saint Petersburg, or Moscow. As it seems so do many young people here.
In the last twentyfive years the population in Murmansk has dropped from some 420.000 to the current 315.000. Now I have read some more information why people had come to Murmansk back then: during Soviet times the harsh cities in the Russian north offered even 100% higher salaries than in the more comfortable places in the south, as well as longer and paid holiday reatrats at the Black sea, earlier retirement age, and extra food and clothing supplies. So although you had to sign contract for at least 5 years, the offer was too good to refuse.
So the city was constantly in flux, migrating, attracting new working force from around the Soviet Union. And it seems that although these times are (not so long) gone, the migrational nature of the city remains: peope come here for business, stay a couple of months or years and leave, sailors come and go, young people leave to study in the capital or in Norway; most probably not to come back. Who stays is the military, with their military bases surrounding the city, and the FSB, with the tall, large and substantial building making its presence very viable on the main prospekt Lenina.
And the nuclear reactors.
Murmansk has one of the highest amounts of operational nuclear reactors in the world. Beat that precedence, eh.
Picture
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    From up north

    Short impressions from my one month curatorial stay in Murmansk, Russia in April 2017. It will help my memory. Shielded by Transfer North's Critical Curatorial Writing Residency Award and hosted by Gallery ч9: Glafira Severyanova and Ivan Galuzin.
    https://transfernorth.wordpress.com/

    Archives

    April 2017

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.