How did it all begin? Who was first and how did the world as we know it come to be? If we take a closer look, we see that the world is constantly starting anew. Things fall apart, something new begins.
Collapse is an exhibition about what can happen when nature disrupts our world. We humans try our best to control nature, but nature repeatedly throws us into chaos and forces us to look at the world from a new perspective.
In Collapse, you will meet people who, in different ways and at different times, live between control and chaos:
- In the distant past we meet Stone Age pioneers who ventured north and made a new life for themselves along the coast of Norway after the collapse of the Ice Age
- We travel east to The Pacific and see how people in Polynesia held chaos at bay with the help of caution (tapu) and daring (mana)
- We meet today´s urban gardeners who are exploring new ways of living in response to the threat of ecological collapse that faces us today
In the spaces between the stories, you can explore for yourself how daring, ingenuity, control and collapse interact.
Oslo Fjord Pioneers
Join us on a journey to a distant past when enterprising pioneers ventured north to explore the new world that was taking shape as the ice sheets melted and new land rose from the sea.
Head Above Water
In places dominated by the sea and subject to unpredictable and violent forces of nature, destruction and impending collapse is impossible to ignore.
Urban Gardening in Oslo
Is the world as we know it on the verge of collapse? Many feel that we are doing our best to destroy the planet by the way we live and that it’s only a matter of time before the earth will be unfit for human habitation. So what are we doing about it?
