Photo Essay: Ut Av Vr Hule Music and Art Festival in Arctic Norway
1. The Ut Av Vr Hule (Out Of Our Caves) legal holiday a showcase for up as well as coming Norwegian musicians as well as artists takes place each second year in aged marble mines outward Fauske in Northern Norway, just inside a Arctic Circle.
2. The mines were a source of Norwegian Rose dolomite marble, used in a construction of New Yorks UN Building as well as a Japanese Emperors Palace.
3. Many of a caves have been still accessible, yet for a reserve of legal holiday goers they have been strictly sealed off due to a H2O which has flooded most of them. In some, however, aged mining rigging is still visible, coated in marble dust.
4. Behind a main stage, immeasurable chunks of rejected marble decrease in to a striking aquamarine pool, a little boulders submerged similar to blocks of unusually heavy ice.
5. Abandoned buildings, most still containing machine as well as tools, have been used as venues for pick stages as well as by artists preparing their work, yet a summary No Safety Inside rema! ins clea r.
6. Artist Ash Khs (AKA Ashraf Khuffash) designation of black doors rock climbing a marble slurry store was generally impressive, as well as not unlike a Pink Floyd manuscript cover.
7. Amidst a marble slurry towering pick participants had installed cruise tables, buckets as well as spades as well as pick beach accessories whose colours stood out opposite a blinding white backdrop.
8.Some of those attending were keen to experiment with pick forms of expression, overseen closely by organisers, naturally.
9. Fridays opening act, 2x Slagwerk (Two Drummers) achieved a challenging though sparkling set of initial stroke as well as dub. Like most of a musicians, they have been now unsigned as well as chosen by organisers wishing to provide a showcase for their work.
10. Artists had combined more pointed installations amidst a algae as well as weeds of a a tide which ran by a legal holiday grounds, Alpine villages as well as rubber steep ponds amongst them.
11. Musicians Sondre Justad as well as Marte Ryeng had never achie! ved live together before. They arrived dual days early as well as spent time in a drift looking inspiration for their song after pick members of Justads band, Giraff, were taken to appear.
12. A lizard built out of embellished half-tyres emerges, blinking, out of a single of a caves in to a bright light.
13. Local musician achieved an acoustic set inside a single of a failing in duty buildings. He lives upon an island a little five hours by boat from a circuitously city of Bod.
14.Northern Norwegian celebration rituals mostly involve good natured physical combat, as well as Ut Av Vr Hule is no different. This span have been scrambling amidst a dirt by a bar, a tent whose legs have been levelled upon blocks of marble.
15.Fipp, from Bod, were a single of over twenty acts to perform for free over a weekend. Their fierce combination of post-rock as well as jazz, led by French Horn player Vida Engar, valid generally renouned with a tiny though passionate crowd.
16.Thanks to Northern Norways midnight sun, it never gets dark during a festival, yet a object dips down next a setting for a short hour or two, lighting up a sky opposite shades of pinkish as well as orange each night.
17.Ash Khs route of doors provided a surreal vision which Aldous Huxley would no doubt have approved during a tip of a marble slurry mountain.
18.4.30am, as well as a legal holiday drift have been eventually forlorn by partygoers as well as artists, divulgence a bare though overwhelming landscape, a main theatre now abandoned similar to a mines themselves.
19.As dawn arrives, its time for a final of a festivalgoers wrapped in blankets to shield them from a cold of a tiny hours to conduct to bed. In a background, Fauske is preparing for a new day.
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