The Gjerdrum LandArt festival 2023 edition, is focusing on the disastrous landslide that happened in 2020.
The 2020 Gjerdrum landslide was a quick clay landslide that occurred in the early hours of 30 December 2020 at Ask village, the administrative center of Gjerdrum, Norway. Several buildings were destroyed, many injured and 10 people died.
Gjerdrum is located near Oslo airport, which means the land art interventions could be seen from the plane.
I am approaching this task of making a work in relation to the traumatic landslide, based on two factors. First is my personal experience of surviving and going through intense grief after the Beirut Port explosion, and second is a site specific research.
Like in many of my previous projects, healing is the main focus.
I think of time as a space, a distance between a person and a disaster. My first sketch for this project is a clock that shows the time of the Landslide, and slowly the clock disappears with the weather. In parallel to the dissolving time option, I met with the Rescue team that was on the ground on that night. The interviews are loaded with stories, some horrific, some technical and some humoristic and shocking.
The work is still in process and it must be implemented in a agricultural field starting september so it is ready for the festival in October.