New Mineral Collective is a platform based in the Arctic that looks at contemporary landscape policy to better understand the nature and extent of human interaction with the earth’s surface. As an organism, NMC infiltrates the extraction industry with alternative forces such as desire, body mining and counter-prospecting. Since 2015, the artists Emilija Škarnulytė (born in Lithuania, living in Tromsø, Norway) and Tanya Busse (born in Canada, living in Tromsø, Norway) have run NMC. NMC’s projects have been screened nationally and internationally, including the SIART Bolivia International Art Biennial, Artists’ Film International Season 7, organized by the Whitechapel Gallery; the first art biennial in Toronto; SeMA Seoul Museum of Art; On Earth, Structure and Sadness, at Serpentine Galleries, UK; the Swedish Center for Architecture and Design, Stockholm; and most recently as part of the Swimming Pool: Troubled Waters, currently at the Künstlerhaus Bethanian, Berlin.