Rebel Architecture Lab: The habitat must be respected

Join us for the opening of THE HABITAT MUST BE RESPECTED by Rebel Architecture Lab Friday 16th of September at 17:00!

The Indoor installation is on view until Sunday 18 September.

Opening hours

16.09 17:00 - 19:00 Opening

17.09 12:00 - 17:00

16.09 12:00 - 16:00

In a move toward a more ethical and empowering embracing of interventional developments in the northern landscape, was started a research project “Northern Landscope: from Kirkenes to Kerkini”. Both sites are situated in the North (of Norway and Greece) and are connected with the invisible line - moving Dverggås bird. Being only 91 in the whole world, they are very free and very fragile. Their final destinations thought are also in a danger. Despite the geographical distance between the northern and southern poles of Europe, these sites that the birds inhabit are the northern edges of the two countries that face challenges. While mining action might start in an area very close to Kerkini, the Norwegian side is going to install a pipeline making it impossible for Tverggås to stay there.

But conscious position, regarding how we as humans should delicate the ecological balance, is happening through our living experience and care for the land.
Installation “The habitat must be respected” is telling the story in an immersive way. While weaving from reused found materials, the artists repeat the same gesture as birds do while creating their nests. The notion of ephemeral is one more time highlighted.

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ABOUT

Rebel Architecture Lab is an artistic collective provoking action and thought at the intersection of architecture, arts, urban interventions, and social sciences. It is established by Alla Onopchenko & Ioulia Eleftheriadou and is based in Oslo.
After shared educational experience in Sweden and working in different cultural contexts such as Ukraine, Greece, and Norway, this partnership emerged from a common interest in addressing design as an answer to societal and environmental challenges. Important aspects of their work are engaging with context and creating bonds with communities in order to produce a site and situation-specific proposals, full-scale installations in the physical environment. They work through artistic experimental research, public events, and tactical interventions. They support green economies with timber construction and use recycled, reused, and low-emission materials.