Hard Drives from Space

Listening station & Sculpture series

Thousands of years ago, a meteor shower hit the grounds of the present-day Inugguit Nunaat (Northern Greenland). During Danish colonisation and 19th-century North Pole expeditions, these meteorite pieces found their way to museums in New York and Copenhagen. Alongside mineral trophies, indigenous Inugguit people were relocated and displayed as a living “anthropological zoo.”

As part of the project “Hard Drives from Space” shapes mineral magnetism becomes a key strategy to lift the weight of colonialism and restitute indigenous narratives. The work can be seen a series of attempts to restitute geological matter in collaboration with the community of Haviggivik. 

This sound installation takes the form of a listening station composed of speculative stones. Through a series of decolonising rituals with hunters, shamans, and artisans in Inugguit Nunaat and art-scientific experiments at the Paleomagnetic Laboratory in Utrecht, samples of the meteorite are remagnetized. By rewriting magnetic histories, new narratives emerge — one sun after another.