2016 ARTISTS
Solveig Ylva Dagsdottir and Nanna Mølbak Hansen
Justin Ashworth is a sound artist/composer from Melbourne Australia, collaborating across media including contemporary dance and film. He also produces original music under the band name Glasfrosch. The sound score draws on some early experiments with the sounds gathered during Justin's residency at Heima in late 2015. The soundscape contains choral pads and voice drones built from recordings in the Tvisongur sound sculpture and a collection of rain and storm recordings made in Seydisfjordur.
Cross the threshold into "Another Dimension" in this interactive installation. Heidi is a Midwest wanderess with a passion for playing. Growing up, her playground was six-hundred fifty acres of dirt, cows, corn, and rust. Here is where the discovery and understanding of life, death, growth, abundance, decay, and other prevalent qualities of the farm became the foundation of her sculpture practice.
Go to linkFreyja Eilíf (B.1986) is a visual artist, living and working in Reykjavík. She graduated from the Iceland Art Academy and works as a director of Ekkisens Art Space. She will create a sculptural light art piece at List í ljósi Festival inspired the perception of revival and vitality in dreams.
Licht is my music - a projection mapping performance which takes you on a historic journey of Seyðisfjörður.
Go to linkEva Wollenberg is a French polymathic outsider artist working and living in wilderness. Her creative ecosystem expands across photography, video, poetry, and music. In the NOCTURNAL installation, a woman stands in a garden of night-blooming flowers and turns inward in a meditative state. Light and shadows seem alive, tentacular, and caress her face. She glows peacefully, powerful and imperturbable, an allegory of a certain creative power. https://vimeo.com/46072372
Go to linkHögni Egilsson söngvari Hjaltalín og GusGus ætlar að loka hátíðinni með sóló tónleikum í Bláu Kirkjunni Laugardagskvöldið 20.febrúar á miðnætti.
“You are here... elsewhere” is an interactive and participative installation at the crossroads of different video-graphic languages, such as documentaries, animation drawing, video games, interaction, etc. It is a hybrid form giving the viewer a look at public space as an interactive space. Artistic Partner: Ocubo
Go to linkSunnstede is an entity experimenting in various mediums. Giving priority to the process, it lets its creations evolve and take on lives of their own. Sunnstede is organic and synthetic, implosive and explosive, raw and transformed, structured and amorphous, electric and acoustic, perpetual and volatile. Sunnstede is currently working on several musical projects and exploring the video medium through short film, installation and experiential video where music plays a central role.
Go to linkLitten Nystrøm (1977) was born in Aarhus, Denmark. She lives and works in Seyðisfjörður Iceland where her work is rooted in investigations of unpredictability and uncertainty as circumstances. Her observations of physical phenomena are bound to philosophical reflections and materialized via light or matter to works that seem to blur the line between dimension.
Go to linkWALKPro3D is the first of its kind - a small and mobile video projection system that can bring digital puppetry and 3D character performances to any location. With no need for cables or screens it is a uniquely flexible projection kit, and has previously been imaginatively used for various branded marketing and charity events, clubs, music tours, and within arts and fashion contexts.
Go to linkThe installation re-enacts one of the most prominent waterfalls of Seydisfjordur during winter, when the frozen space suggests an arrested life. A glowing slit amplifies the moonlit landscape, intensifying time past and present into imaginations of a future. There is no past, I can see you. There is no future, I imagine you. I am always here. Studio Bravo is a multidisciplinary studio based in London UK.
Go to linkÍvar er fæddur og uppalinn á Seyðisfirði. Hann er sjómaður og hefur á tekið myndir á ferðum sínum sem hann ætlar að sýna okkur á hátíðinni.
Angus Muir brings together people, space and objects. Most recently using light and reflection as a medium to communicate meaning, AMD’s portfolio covers all aspects of installation including; permanent installations, temporary installations, interactive projects, public art, light sculptures and corporate work.
Go to linkMya Lurgo was born in Bordighera (IM, Italy) May 30, 1971, from over 20 years she works in Switzerland. Artistic expression is her way, since childhood, of research and discovery. Mya's primary interest is the study of esoteric texts and the translation in art of their content. Research is ispired by Immaterial of Yves Klein and Rosicrucian Order ad later articulated in essential vision under the name Acentrism. Acentric art propose to reduce to minimum terms the component of self-centered exist
Go to linkJemma Woolmore aka Jem the Misfit is a video performance artist. Her carefully crafted performances create spatial and textural landscapes, responding intuitively with the audio. Jem’s fascination for utopian architecture, science fiction and music combined with her artistic vision and dedication to translating musical energy into visual form has seen her perform alongside some of the worlds top Dj’s and producers. Sound by Justin Ashworth.
Go to link'ASTRID' - The expectation of the familiar in the unfamiliar space. Inspired by birth and death, the combination of real space with the intervention of uncanny placing of man-made visual, the installation will inhabit the presence and absence at the same moment. The sensation of reality is just a sense, not knowability. Rethinking of possibilities.
Go to linkOnly when we were brave enough to explore the darkness we finally discovered the infinite power of the light of our being! Harpa Einarsdottir is an Icelandic artist and fashion designer.
Go to linkHeimkoma (Homecoming) is an animated sound-story from 3 deserted Icelandic farms. One of them just located just outside Seyðisfjörður. A knit knot of animation, storytelling and singing. Cecilia is a Danish visual artist working with site specific animation.
Go to linkGonsholt has realized works that deals with questions related city development and modernization. In the continuation of this project, her focus has changed to human adaptability as a concrete physical process that includes social changes as well as mental developments. She was awarded the The Telemark Footprint Award for artists in 2014.
Go to link"Sometimes" is a paper animation that evolved from the impact of the mountains and the ocean in the beautiful town Seyðisfjörður. Therefore those surroundings build the figures of the film. no website Music: "Sometimes I like to lie" by AnnenMay Kantereit
In celebration of the coming light that has escaped the small town of Sediysfordur, nestled in the fjord, Songs For The Coming Daylight will translate a sense of hope, promise, and jubilee for the inspirited light to come. A subtle way to call attention to the fleeting landscape, notice what is around and connect with humanity, this soundtrack is both a record and snapshot of time. Employing a simple gesture of participation, a whistle will be the catalyst and carrier of sound.
Go to link“Swans” seems like a harmless and naive name for the radical yet subtle intervention in nature accomplished by this work. Irony is a clearly recognizable element of this installation made from eight satellite dishes, seven white and one black, obvious waste elements of our society representing the power of mainstream TV and mass media. Brought to life by sound, wind and water, these animals float peacefully in a pond, merging perfectly with the nature surrounding them.
Go to linkArndis Yr and Austin Thomasson are Detroit based film and photographic artists. They work with narratives that bleed out from their frames. They are hinged upon the failures of how they've come to engage with these mediums, dining with expectations of entertainment versus art. An audience as a participating watchdog is vital to bring the experiencing of these images into an interactive and lived space, an act of obedience to their nature.
The kingdom is a conceptual video work is to be screened to create a sense of immersion. Light can turn into darkness and darkness can breed light. A more sustainable city can also be developed through artificial light and can induce to imagination and creation and that’s something really amazing. Light is so much more than an everyday technology, it can be something really special and it can be though as an urban art model for the future.
TIME is Love Screening is a roving international video art program on the theme of love in hard times. Since 2008 the project has been exploring forms of artistic expression rising from society and the new media's use of technology. It has traveled to major cities in the world attracting a vibrant mix of media professionals, researchers, young people and families.
Go to linkJulie Laenkholm is a New York based emerging artist born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Julie works in various mediums and defines her self as a sculptor. Her practice unfolds itself in an almost ritualistic manner with a particular sensitivity for materials. Through the haptic, she investigates the awakening of materials and curates her work in an seemingly arbitrary however precise manner in what she calls 'situations'. Expectations is a key word in her practice.
Go to linkMaster of Arts in Psychology (2015) graduated at Adam Mickiewicz University and Bachelor of Arts in Photography (2013) graduated at University of Arts in Poznan, Poland. Grant holder of the Social Sciences Department at University of Catania, Italy (2009 – 2010). Consciously uses both education paths. Works in the medium of photography and video. Participated in exhibitions and film festivals worldwide. Lives and works in Poznań, Poland. Music by: Antonina Nowacka and Robert Skrzyński
Laura Tack works through images and materials in an attempt to connect with the vastness of time, using processes that emphasize the connection between creation and destruction.
Go to linkRhea Cutillo is a Los Angeles based multimedia artist working within epistemic experience. Her practice consists of documenting and interpreting the natural world; seeking truth in the universality of human existence. Her lens-based work, installations, and paintings aim to expand space into cerebral or immaterial realms. That which is past, that which is now is the resulting sculpture of a process piece exploring ritual and transformation.
Go to linkAndrew Burgess is an architect who plays with building elements to create an architecture at home in a single installation than constant physical reality.
Go to linkLight ritual performance around a mystical bonfire featuring the members of the LungA school.
Go to link'Blue' is a performance and video work inspired by Joni Mitchell's song 'Blue'. Video in collaboration with Laura Tack and Alex Carr.
Nina is a visual artist from Reykjavík, Iceland. She graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2014 with a b.a. Degree in Fine Arts. In April 2015 she started a two year fellowship programme in stone lithography printing with Leicester Print Workshop, England. She is thus currently based in the UK. In recent years she has exhibited her work in both solo and group exhibitions in Iceland and England. She works in mixed media including print, videos, installations, performances and textile
Go to linkA installation of ten small-scale electronic fireflies, emitting light and sound. The work explores the lives of the hibernating luminescent fireflies during winter. Nataliya Petkova is a multidisciplinary artist working with electronics, sound art, performance, code and images. She holds a bachelor degree in Visual Arts from École Supérieure d’Art de Marseille (France), as well as a master degree in New Media from Laval University (Quebec, Canada).
Go to linkAn installation is stylized presentations of typical house and fishing boat, positioned opposite each other (if possible boat above water, house on the shore), reduced to outlines that partially linearly shine.Boat is bringing Sun back coming from same direction, while house is open, welcoming them back after long waiting.
Go to linkSigga Boston mun lýsa upp Bláu kirkjuna og skapa einstaka stemmingu fyrir tónleika Högna sem verða á miðnætti. Einnig mun Sigga Boston sýna verk sín í göngunni.