Send message to Authors

Short abstract

In March 2025, we carried out a collective, speculative performance that transformed a site obscure in its mundanity—a snow deposit site—into a tourist attraction.

Long abstract

Glaciers are key icons of climate change and global environmental change. They are ‘good to think with', as glacial ice does not just melt but the melt is imbued with cultural, scientific, political and aesthetic meanings. In March 2025, we carried out a collective, speculative performance that transformed a site obscure in its mundanity—a snow deposit site—into a tourist attraction. Our performance was an attempt to experiment whether re-framing the very mundane relationships between snow and the city could expose and open up new possibilities for understanding the climate changing everyday realities of the urbanized Arctic. By making the snow deposit site into an urban glacier through specific, imported touristic practices, we aimed to further examine the contemporary ontologies of the melting cryoscapes. Re-imagining an everyday site, like the snow dumps, could open a possibility to potential new ways of recognizing, researching, and thinking with climate change related environmental loss.