TANG

2019 · Barents Spektakel / Pikene på Broen, Kirkenes · with Trond Ansten / Devil’s Apron · lighting: Tatiana Ludanik · curator: Ingrid Valan

Festival bar and social installation in the old fire station at Barents Spektakel 2019. With Trond Ansten (Devil’s Apron) and Moscow based lighting designer Tatiana Ludanik, Grundvåg turned the venue into an algal environment linked to the festival theme “The world’s northernmost Chinatown.”

Visitors could bathe in seaweed spa tubs (kelp and products from the Arkhangelsk Experimental Industrial Algae Factory), find a small secret TangBar serving experimental algae brews, and move through spaces built and lit around marine biomass, continuing Devil’s Apron’s long experimentation with seaweed as food, material, and social infrastructure.

TANG neon entrance at night, Barents Spektakel, Kirkenes, 2019

Interior with backlit kelp panels and hanging seaweed

Seaweed spa tubs under blue-violet light