Alien vs. Predator is an audiovisual performance that derives from both stories of 90°S-empir[e]icism (2022) and Antarctic Archives (2025). Referencing the Hollywood blockbuster of the same name (P. Anderson, 2004), which is set in Antarctica, Alien vs. Predator constructs its own science fiction narration centered on the birth and metaphor of a monster—imagining non-human resistance to exploitation and scientific measurement.

Digitally slowed-down and historical documentary material (1950s) from industrial whaling—the earliest form of resource extraction around Antarctica—and animated 35mm scientific radar film from Antarctic landscapes are juxtaposed with pseudo-historical appearing images from Janis Polar’s own Antarctic expedition in 2020. These images form a fragmented, broken archive, incapable of comprehending their inherent violence.

The live-controlled images on a concave screen-sculpture are in dialogue with Yanik Soland’s a sound/music from synthesizers. Both artists use their voices throughout the performance filtered through a vocoder—a loss of language, a kind of whale singing, a form of collective mourning of lost ecosystems and re-imagining.