Kirsty Kross’s Wonder World Doomsday Fish, Dolphin Sex, and Ken Done

arly summer in Norway, at present, is pleasantly but uncharacteristically balmy. The Brisbane-born artist Kirsty Kross has taken up residence in an old church hall by the sea in Portør, where she is developing an installation for Oslo’s Nasjonalmuseet. Not far away in the town of Kragerø, a walrus named Freya is causing a ruckus due to her enthusiasm for sunbathing on speedboats that cannot handle her 700-kilogram frame. Although the public is delighted by her antics, her journey southward has caused alarm amongst marine biologists who recognise the vagrant walrus as a harbinger of an accelerating climate crisis. Kirsty has spent the past decade assuming the avatar of a coral trout within a European