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The Borealis Winter Festival, Alta, Norway
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‘The Stallo and the Silver Moon’ was a stage design by Laila Kolostyák at the Borealis Winter Festival, Alta, Norway in 2015. Snow and ice is one of of Laila Kolostyák’s main material of expression, a material suited for working in large format in public areas- and engaging the local community. Laila has been cooperating with local people for many years, involving schools, artists and the municipality in creating large snow and ice installations to transform the city center. She works closely with Mari Bottolfsen and other teachers at the local college to work with more than four hundred teenagers and professional artists every year, working together and increasing a sense of community. The installations have become a focal point in the town centre and have contributed to the identity of Alta as a winter destination.
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The Tundra - Melting Ice Precious Earth Project, 2007
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The Tundra - Melting Ice Precious Earth Project brought 12 tons of natural ice from Lapland to France to create a compact ice circle protected with a layer of French soil and grass on top. The ice melted despite its protection, and the size, mass, power and strength of the material. No matter how much ice there was, the delicate metaphor for nature, cannot take heat. The ice disappeared in front of our eyes, and the process was irreversible.
The Tundra sculpture intends to raise awareness of the melting process which is taking place globally on an incomprehensible scale and with globally devastating consequences. The polar ice, glaciers and permafrost are melting at a high speed, with dramatic and tragic effects that many of the world’s population have already experienced.
By Laila Kolostyák, 2007.