The art project studies the effects of industrialisation and the colonialisation of the North. Theres K Agdlers site-specific art project BROTTET – the quarry/crime is an investigation into a microhistory situated in a global rhizome of capitalist structures. In the 19th century, the north of Sweden (Norrland) was known as “Framtidslandet”, the land of the future. Yet also in this period, processes of industrial and colonial exploitation began, affecting land, water, and people.

Soapstone has been extracted in Handöl, Jämtland, for more than 400 years. The now closed soapstone factory has affected all the people living in and around Handöl. Over the course of one day in 2013, the Norwegian factory owners left. They took all the machines (partly financed by regional funding) and a lot of soapstones over the border. Then they went bankrupt. They left an empty factory, they left people in Handöl without work and income, they left the holes in the ground.