Nikhil Vettukattil (b. 1990, Bengaluru, India) Artist and writer who lives and works in Oslo. Using a range of media such as sound, installation, performance, text, sculpture, and video, his practice questions modes of representation and image-making processes in their relation to lived experiences.

While in residence at Narsaq International Research Station he will develop a new piece of work that will incorporate research on food production and distribution in the high North and its relation to the climate crisis.

What kind of diet is sustainable and good for health and low CO2 in the Nordic environment, Scandinavian countries, but also Japan, Russia, Sapmi and Turtle Island (Canada) and Greenland?

He is curious to learn about life, culture and diet, hunting and cooking in Greenland, and to meet with people who work with food and plants. He uses a mix of old and new methods, looking at what people did before industrialisation as well as agriculture. Part of his project is making a cookbook that will be free to share. He is also embroidering second hand clothes with recipes as a way to share them.