Skaftfell Center for Visual Art – Main Gallery

presents a selection of Video and Sound work of

Marcellvs L. – who is currently Artist in Residence at Skaftfell -

The work of Marcellvs L. consists of recording encounters using a camera and a microphone. It might possibly give the impression of a chance meeting, or of a quest for something during which something else is found, but ultimately what he represent is always mediated, something that is made. He try to linger in an ambivalent place, one where there is a conjunction of attention, trust, detachment.

http://www.caosmos.org/

..”I began an on-going audiovisual series called VideoRhizome in January 2002, experimenting with the philosophical universe of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari as an elaboration of the concept of the rhizome. The idea behind this is that concepts are never perfect, complete or exhausted. It is necessary to produce them and to continually connect them to the events of this world, to the here and now. By working with this concept, I affirm this reading, which is personal and thus has the force to touch the other. The series, which is basically subdivided into two parts, production and dissemination, was never an illustration of this concept, but rather the creation of a rhizomatic production and dissemination of audiovisual work. The videos do not follow a script, and a piece results primarily from the moment of recording. I seek out the interrelations between events in their contingency, which are in some cases frustrating and in others surprising. The videos thus produced are assigned a four-digit number chosen at random (for example, 0667, 5040, 8246), resulting in an unconnected sequence. This feature allows for the ongoing expansion of the series because it is not chronological, but instead full of gaps. In a second step, I open the telephone book, from the city in which I live, to a random page and determine whether there is any relationship between my current address, the address in the book and the numbering of the works. If there is, I send a tape of the video with the matching number (to the street number, the door number or the telephone number) to that address. The tapes bear no return address, only a stamp with the number of the video. In the end, it doesn’t matter who receives them, how they are received or what the purpose is. What matters is the accidental and fragile encounter between occurrence and non-occurrence: between the one who produced the images, those who can be seen in them, and the one who receives the tapes via mail. To date, I have made 28 videos and mailed 3,500 tapes.”

Skaftfell Art Class show Book Art Work

at The West Wall Gallery
Austurvegur 42, Seyðdisfjörður

Fri. 13th – Sun. 22th of January 2012

Matt Jacobs, currently Artist in residence at Skaftfell, staying and working at Hóll, will be exhibiting new work at The Bookshop Projectspace Friday the 13th. to Sunday the 15th. of January.

Opening Friday the 13th 19.00-21.00.

Welcome!

www.thatmattjacobs.com

Entrace fee: 1.000 kr
500 kr for elderly and children

The 8th grade students have been working in the field between concrete and abstract matters and visions of the body – explored through light and captured on photographs. Their installation will be shown in the window of the Bookshop – Projectspace.

The 9th grade have been further out there in the universe and their installation will be displayed inside the Bookshop space.

The exhibitions are a part of the yearly “Afturgangan” walk which starts from the Technical Museum at 20:00 friday November 11th.

The poet Sveinn Snorri Sveinsson (b. 1963 in Egilsstaðir) exhibits the process he went through in creating the comic book Skuggi Rökkva (2006) or Rökkvi’s Shadow. He worked on the book with the illustrator Jean Antoine Posocco.

During the opening the poet will read from his recently release book of poetry.