Narvik Superstars

This project, commissioned by the Narvik City Council and Artscape Nordland, proposed to realise a star in the pavement for every child born in during the next 5-7 years in Narvik. This Norwegian city threatened to become vacated, with this work the harborfront would have been covered in stars, made by the same company that provides those for Hollywood's Walk of Fame, and every year a ceremony would have been held to reveal the new ones. The goal of the project is to turn the exclusive into the popular through a local recycling of the "star culture", where every newborn baby will become a star in its own life. Simultaneously the project represented a local mobilization to increase the population of Narvik. Due to budget cuts, the project was cancelled in 2006.
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