May 17th, 2012
Sigga Björg Sigurðardóttir, All images courtesy of artist and Kling and Bang, Reykjavik
In “33″ at Kling and Bang gallery in Reykjavik, Iceland, Sigga Björg Sigurðardóttir acts as sub-creator, naming the unseen and unnameable and thus bestowing life upon fantastic hybrid entities. The space is full of wildness: A red, black and grey game-board floor suggests a sequence of movements that is menacingly playful, with potentially high stakes, and the duplicate dimensions of work, with mirror-like repetitions, hints at illusion and potential trickery. Sigga’s sculptures and works on paper evoke H.P. Lovecraft’s “fantastic dream of unknown and half-known shapes”, summoning “forest-born and ice-fostered whisperings… shapeless spawn… eldritch weirdness.” Her work engages with the expression of human ways, three-dimensional forces Windows 7 Key, and unearthly things, and her chorus of yellow and crimson-eyed creatures may drink from a poisoned chalice, or deal us clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades. The fragmentation of forces, dispersed by enchantment, leads to alluring strangeness and uncharted dimensions.
Can you describe the thought processes and inspiration surrounding your solo show, “33,” at Kling and Bang? In particular, can you tell me about the three sculptures?
The idea is pretty basic. I am showing 33 characters. Thirty drawings and three sculptures. What is maybe different in this show is that the characters now have a face and a name. Before, my characters were more like faceless creatures that were expressing some kind of situation or a feeling mainly through body language, outfits, etc. This is the first time I decided to look them in the eyes and give them names. This is also the first time I made sculptures. I actually don’t really know why I started making the sculptures but at some point in the process of making this exhibition, I had a terrible nightmare. I dreamt that I had a pet cat that I loved very much and something horrible happened that made my cat turn two dimensional… okay, it was a long and weird dream but something about this dream actually made me start experimenting with making three-dimensional creature.
What inspires you to often portray hybrids and chimeras, and what role does naming play in this body of work?
I have a big interest in all different creatures. Both animals and humans. I like to watch how they behave and don’t behave. Naming plays a big role in this new series of 33 characters. By giving them a face and a name I feel like I am taking a step towards getting to know them and approaching them in a different way. Not only as a viewer from a distance. I feel like this is more personal.
Is this body of work influenced by the Icelandic folklore of hidden people, elves, or nature-beings (and do you believe)? How would you describe the ways in which the awe-striking environment affects one’s consciousness, in Iceland?
I wouldn’t say that this body of work or any of my work is directly influenced by Icelandic folklore. Icelandic nature is pretty dramatic and powerful and it is impossible to live here and not be influenced by the surroundings. Of course there are lots of elves/hidden people etc., here and there is no reason to doubt their existence. Being from here it is hard to know how the environment is affecting us here. It makes sense to be influenced by the place I am from but I am in no way directly working with Icelandic folktales. My characters are influenced by people I have met all over the world. Half of this series I made in Austria. I stayed there for a three-month residency recently in a town called Krems. In some of the works I can see afterwards that there are Austrian elements in the characters. It was surprisingly exotic for a person from Iceland to stay in a such Catholic surroundings. But it was an inspiring three months.
What is the artistic community like in Iceland; as an outside observer, it appears very close-knit, conversational, and collaborative — does this ring true? Do you think that there is a common undercurrent among Icelandic artists?
In my opinion the Icelandic artist community is pretty big, considering how small the population is here. In the center of Reykjavík every other person seems to be some kind of artist, musician, writer Office Stand-Alone Programs, etc. However, it is a small town so we all more or less know each other and it is very collaborative and creative. I don’t know if there is a common undertone? It doesn’t feel like that but maybe someone from abroad would see that better than I do. I find artists here to be very individually strong and the scene pretty diverse actually.
What is your studio practice like in Reykjavik? What are you now working on?
I work in my studio in Reykjavík every day. Since the opening of the show “33 Windows 7 64 bit key,” I have finished an album cover for musician Mikael Lind and now I have just started working on a new animation and sculptures.
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May 17th, 2012
DOVER, N.H. — The Keystone XL pipeline extension, which would transport an oil product known as “tar sands” to refineries on the Gulf Coast, has received a wealth of media attention this year.
However, the Keystone XL pipeline isn’t the only transportation path for tar sands oil. Oil suppliers have explored a number of ways to move the controversial petroleum product to market, including pathways through the Northeast.
One of Canada’s largest pipeline operators, Enbridge Inc., developed a plan in 2008 to reverse one of its existing lines to begin moving tar sands oil east from Western Canada, where the industry is set to boom.
Enbridge’s Line 9, which starts in the western part of the country, would be capable of delivering tar sands oil to Montreal if the company reversed the flow of the entire line.
Enbridge proposed doing just that four years ago with its “Trailbreaker” project.
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The line stretches more than 200 miles, cutting through Vermont and northern New Hampshire.
It now transports crude in the other direction, from Maine to Montreal.
Enbridge officials since have scrapped the Trailbreaker project, citing a sour economy. But environmental groups in both Canada and the United States believe recent actions indicate the company is working to revive the proposal incrementally.
Recently, Enbridge filed a request with Canada’s National Energy Board to reverse the flow of oil in a segment of Line 9, which connects Sarnia and Westover in Ontario.
Enbridge spokesperson Jennifer Varey said the company is making the move in order to begin transporting light crude to a facility in Westover.
Varey said Line 9′s future use will be dictated by the demands of shippers, and Enbridge has not determined whether to request permission from Canadian officials to reverse the entire pipeline.
“It’s one of those things where, if the market demand is there, there is the possibility that we would be bringing Canadian oil to those markets” in the Northeast, she said.
In addition to the activity around Line 9, environmental groups in Canada have been following developments near Montreal, where the operator of the Portland-Montreal Pipeline is seeking to build a new pumping station.
That pumping station would provide the necessary machinery to push oil over a range of mountains near the Vermont border, which would be an impediment if the flow of the pipeline is reversed.
However, the company has lost legal battles over its request in at least two Canadian courts — most recently from the Court of Quebec.
“The project itself of reversing the flow of the pipeline, at this time, is not moving forward because the market conditions, at this time, do not warrant that project to move forward,” said Denis Boucher, a Portland-Montreal Pipe Line spokesperson.
However, Dylan Voorhees, director of the clean energy project at the Natural Resources Council of Maine, which was been following the issue, worries it’s only a matter of time before the pipeline operators decide to renew the project.
Voorhees said the situation is concerning because moving tar sands presents a greater risk for an oil spill than moving conventional crude oil.
Tar sands is more acidic — and therefore more corrosive — than conventional crude oil, and it must be transported at hotter temperatures and faster speeds, according to Voorhees.
“I think that’s one of the concerns that people in New Hampshire might have, is, ‘What are the resources and special places that this pipe passes through?’” Voorhees said.
Tar sands, referred to as oil sands in Canada, are a combination of clay, sand, water and bitumen — a heavy, black, asphaltlike substance. Tar sands can be mined and processed to extract the bitumen, which is then refined into oil.
The bitumen in tar sands cannot be pumped from the ground in its natural state. Instead, tar sand deposits are mined, usually using strip mining or open pit techniques, or the oil is extracted by underground heating, according to information available from the U.S. Department of Interior.
As a result of the more energy-intensive extraction techniques, environmental groups argue the production of fuels derived from tar sands is more damaging to the environment than crude oil extraction.
California was set to become the first state in the country to implement a low-carbon fuel standard this year, which could have significant consequences for producers of tar sands products.
The standard would impose penalties on fuel suppliers that ship products with a higher “carbon intensity,” like tar sands-derived gasoline, to California. Money collected through the program would support production of cleaner fuel sources.
New Hampshire is among 11 states in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic considering a similar program called the Clean Fuels Standard, which has been in development for nearly five years.
Arthur Marin is executive director of Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management, the group developing the Clean Fuels Standard.
Until this year, he said, the group had been modeling its design on the California fuel standard, but recent developments in the Golden State have cast doubt on the constitutionality of the program.
Opponents challenged the program in court in December, arguing the fuel standard violates the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution because it attempts to impose a penalty for extraction techniques used in Canada, outside of the state’s borders.
With California’s program facing an uncertain future, NESCAUM is now examining alternative models for a low-carbon fuel standard, Marin said.
Marin said those involved with the project are realistic about the inevitable rise of tar sands-derived fuel production.
“We’ve had many discussions with representatives from Alberta, from the oil companies … and I think everyone understands that that’s a potential new source of oil that’s going to be playing in the United States market,” he said.
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“We’re making the message clear to the rest of the New England states,” he said. “New Hampshire’s not going to go there.”
One of the state’s representatives in the regional fuel standard talks, Mike Fitzgerald, called the House bill “somewhat unfortunate.” Environmental regulations such as the low-carbon fuel standard must be adopted broadly to be effective, he said, and New Hampshire’s primary leverage in the discussions has been the fact that it might or might not participate.
The House bill does not prevent the state from helping to draft the fuel standard. But if New Hampshire declares it won’t cooperate, the state will be in a weaker position to shape the regulations, which could have an impact on fuel prices.
One of New Hampshire’s primary concerns in the discussions is ensuring the standard doesn’t increase the price of gasoline or diesel fuel, according to Fitzgerald.
“Obviously, the state is looking at what can we do to mitigate climate change, and so there would be, potentially, some balancing of economic and environmental interests,” he said, “but obviously, if there was something that was going to significantly impact the price of petroleum and diesel and gasoline, that would be a major concern.”
Although the prospect of tar sands piping through New Hampshire’s north country remains hypothetical, Garrity said he would back initiatives to ship the product through the state, and oppose new efforts to curtail tar sands production.
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May 16th, 2012
Victoria has scrapped a plan to shift the state's car shipment hub to the Port of Geelong, dashing the regional city's hopes for up to 1000 new jobs.
Announcing a feasibility study last year, Ports Minister Denis Napthine said shifting car imports and exports to the state's second-largest port would provide a major economic boost to the Geelong area.
Mr Napthine cited estimates that relocating the car trade to Geelong would help generate up to 1000 jobs in the region and inject $200 million into the local economy.
But the day after the state budget was handed down, Dr Napthine announced car shipments would remain at Webb Dock in Melbourne as a Department of Transport study had found the Geelong plan unviable.
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Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews demanded the premier apologise for the “cruel hoax” on the people of Geelong.
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