:No One belongs Here more than YouSeries of investigations on Vulnerability. The first part, will concern the people that live, and the people that once lived in the landscapes from Vardø to Hamningberg. In the second part I will look closer at the landscape, what can be found in this landscape. The third part takes forth a reading of vulnerability and empty spaces. These three investigations are an attempt to understand vulnerability as something that changes depending on what aspect you are taking on. And trying to discover something that we did not see before, something that was hidden to us.

This is where they settled

The Sea : Endless

Vidda : Endless

:The people in the landscapeIn between two eternities, on the shoreline, is where they settled. Built their homes and lived for generations. On the small strip inbetween two endless landscapes, in a raw and unpredictable nature. Life must have been hard. One out four fishermen lost their lives at sea. Life was not so poetic as we imagine it. What is left behind? People still live here. They still have to deal with heavy weather and endless horisons on both sides. Though times have changed. Few people live of fishing, a road has now been built, you can drive all the way from Vardø to Hamningberg.

:The houses in the landscapeBodies in the landscape. Standing alone. Those simple constructions. Built of driftwood that came over an ocean from Siberia. A result of the landscape. A response to the landscape. Silent and warm. Versus endless. Versus winter storms. Versus snow covering the windows. Versus all the men that lost their lives at sea. Versus that wooden boat that never came back. The house is still. Never moves. The house is full of life, is full of laughter, is full of sorrow, is full of stories. The house remember generations. It remembers their movements, it remembers everybodys secrets. The house that saw you grow up. The house that saw you disappear. The house is still. Is still.

:The stories of the people in the landscape. Small stories. Big landscape. Marked in grey are the settlement areas along the shoreline.

Øystein sold his boat and moved, just like that

Everybody knows this is nowhere

The first patch of snow

Louise and Roar stay-ing up all night in the Midnight Sun

The smell of a Grand fathers house

We walked for hours, my rain jacket is leaking

Is Kjell back in town?

Harald lived here his whole life

I’ve never climbed a tree

There’s no future for me here

Her hands were very cold

Jonnys bike, left to rot

Roy-Arne insists on wearing his Converse even though they are too small

I know everyone here, really

The radio played for 34 years

I could tell by the ache in my back, and the catch of the day, my fishing days are over

I forgot my gym bag at school

Marias secret cloud-berry spot

Signe disappearred, the reappearred, just behind that stone over there

I’ll be happy here, always

Fish again today, always fish

Farsken tute no så du uvettig ut!

Walkman: Love will tear us apart

Staring at the Northern lights, I told him I’m pregnant

I’ll never get a boyfriend

What’s for dinner?

The spot where Jardar lost his shoe in the sea

When it finally stopped snow-ing, everything had disap-peared

My father was lost at sea. I was 4

Today on the shoreline, we found a coconut!

I’ll move to London and play in a REAL band, fuck this!

On New Years Eve, a firecracker set fire to the old shed

Even burned his soccershoes

I can’t hear you! The wind!

Æ spurt om hann sku værr me’Men han bare så i vottan’

Hamningberg

Vardø

A Fox movements during a week

Birds coming from the south nesting on the cliffs

A week in a Rabbits life

Fish steams over a month

Eagle for a day

:The Landscape and what exists here.Using the same map as the previous page, I want to look at all those other stories that can be found here. This specific region is within the border of what we call an Arctic climate. This means that none of the summer months have an average temperature of more than 10 degrees celsius. It also means, that this region has species that only occur in this area. The sitespecificness of species in an area, is connected to what can be found in that area. All species are interdependent. None of the species can live separatly from the others. They stick to the same places, birds come back to nest on the same rocks every year, the fish swim in the same parts of the sea, depending on time of the day or time of the year.

Lemmings

1 year

10 years

100 years

1000 years

100 000 years

whalesplankton

fox

plantslemming

fox

lemming

daylight

rainplants

ice age

life, nature

:Some examples of cycles and interdependency

All living species develop in cycles. The cycles relate to each other. Example : One year : Much rain, little sunlight : few plants flourish.

In a ten years perspective it affects other species, for example the population of lem-ming, that eat the plants, which again influnces the population of foxes that eat the lemming.

Over a hundred years period, one will see how the differ-ences equal out. These are just two representations of cycles, as all living species go through these cycles, all species and factors could be added to the graph.

In the 18th century whales where being hunted near Hamningberg - Vardø. Hun-dredandfifty years later they disappearred. This affected the amount of plankton (whales eat plankton. The amount of plankton increases drasticly, then equals out after a couple of years.

The longest cycles. Those that change everything on the surface of the earth. Ice-ages. What happens in the nature and what happens with the people at this point?

:Empty spaces, fishing history and vulnerability.Hamningberg was one of the largest fishing villages in Finnmark. Its orgins go back to the 16th century. At that time, Hamningberg was a roadless society. A road between Vardø and Hamningberg was built i the late part of the 20th cen-tury. Hamningberg was an important port in the Pomor trade between the Rus-sians and Norwegians from 1720 till 1918. The village was abandonned in 1964, as no money was granted from the state, for the construction of a new harbour. Today, the houses are empty, but serve as summerhouses for the latter part of the poulation.

Fish racks on the shoreline. The fish would be hung to dry immediatly after coming in with the boats.

The Nordlandsboat is an open wooden boat, the smallest in the series and the mostly used for fishing along the coast,, is 14 feet long.

The boats were light wood constructions, and could be pulled up on land during the winter storms.

The village had approximatly 200 inhabitants.All where fish-erfamilies. The boats would sail out on daily basies, except in winter when the weather was too bad.

Havna i Vardø.Fiskebåtene kommer inn, sken inn til byggene nærmest havna. Menneskene som bor i byen jobber i disse byggene eller på havet.

Idag. Tomme rom. (Mappes). Sårbarhet, det som engang var det sikreste/tryggeste

Lage:Kart over hvor langt ut de dro medNordlandsbåt-lineskeSjark-not(?)Tråler. Egen plansje på tråler, idag, vs Hamningberg Vardø, ikke bærekraftig og ikke stedsspesikt, sk fraktes til Kina.

:VardøVardø is the oldest fishing community in Finnmark. Its harbour was the capital of the Pomor Trade. In the 19th century, and at the beginning of the 20th century it was one of the biggest fishing ports in Finnmark. As seen on the photograph, one could walk from one side of the harbour till the other, over the fishing boats. Around the harbour lay fish factories and processing facilities. And the States School for Fishindustry is also situated in Vardø. As the fishing industry went from smaller ‘sjarkfiske’ to trawler fishing, Vardø lost many inhabitants. As there was no longer work to find in the city. The number of inhabitants dropped drasti-cally from 4187 inhabitants in 1970, to 2124 inhabitants in 2010.

The ‘sjark’ fishes on a daily basies, leaving at the break of dawn. The boats have a crew of 2-3 people, depending on the size of the boat.The boats are 25-50 feet long.

The buildings closest to the harbour, where the ‘sjarks’ would deliver the fish to the factories. When the ‘sjarkfiske’ was downgraded, the buildings were left empty. And half of the houses in the city stood empty.

On the radar of the boat on can see where the fish steams are situated. The fish is caught in big nets, that are pulled me-chanically back into the boat. The gutting can take place on the boat.

:Trawler FishingIs fishing where pulling a trawl behind the the vessel. The trawls are huge fishing nets that are being pulled along the bottom of the sea. The trawlers can mesure from 100-360 feet, and weigh between 2-3000 tons. Their size offer them the opportunity for having fish processing facilities on board, which again makes it possibleto stay at sea for weeks, and reaching the fishing banks situated far from the main land. The fish does no longer need to be taken back to a harbour for freezing or filletating, but can be transported directly to China for further process-ing. The entry of these huge vessels on the fish market has affected the fishing industry along the coast and especially in smaller places such as Hamningberg and Vardø. It is no longer profitable to run smaller fish industries in these places.

HamningbergHarbour

ShorelineFish Racks

Housing area

Vardø HarbourFactories

Housing area

Humans

FishPlanktonalgea

Spunge

Whales

Big Fish

Eagle

Swrimps

:Empty spaces, Hamningberg, VardøWhen an important function in a society disappears, as in the case of Hamningberg and Vardø, these places become vulnerable. They were are built up around fishing, in program, function and structure. The empty spaces that are left behind, that were once the strongest spaces in the society, have become the weakest. The absence of boats in the harbour, absence of fish on the racks, empty factories, and empty houses, the empty spaces as a result of economic changes.

The building up of these places are significant. Both Hamningberg and Vardøs centres were built up around the harbour, fishing. When this disappears, it is difficult to reinvent the place, as all spaces have a specific function connected to fishing. And where they are situated (in Norway) is also an important aspect. There were few options of reinventing a place like Hamningberg in 1964. It was abandonned. Vardø has gone through severe periods of crisis, as the popula-tion was halfened in a very short time, but they are working today on giving the the place new programs. Are these empty spaces key spaces in the city, because the city was built up around them? Can these spaces become key spaces agin in the society?

:CyclesThe other aspect of the trawlers fishing industry, is the impact it has on nature. Humans are, the only species that do not develop in cycles. To a certain point in history, humans developped to-gether with nature, but after the industrial revolution (and later in Norway given the two examples)we are driven by growth and economics. Our activities as human beings, are not proportional with the cycles that are ongoing in nature. In contrary with cycles in nature, human beings are no longer bound to place or interdependent. Trawler fishing is a good example of this. One can fish anywhere, not only along the coast, one does not have to bring the fish to the factories daily. It is not people from anywhere working on the trawlers. The fish is sent to China for further treatment.

:InterdependencyNature is interdependent. If trawler fishing leads to eradicating fish in the sea, what will then hap-pen to the other species? What happens if the marches dry in because of global warming, and million of species get affected because they can no longer find food for living. The region between Vardø and Hamningberg is vulnerable, as it is one of the only regions that is situated in an arctic climate, and has several species that exist only here.