Gestalistamennirnir Kati Gausmann, Richard Skelton og?R??hildur Ingad?ttir lj?ka dv?l sinni me? kynningu ? verkum ? vinnslu ? B?kab??inni-verkefnar?mi sunnudaginn 26. j?n? fr? kl. 12:00-18:00. Listamennirnir komu fyrst og dv?ldu ? Sey?isfir?i ? september 2014 og samt?mis h?fst ??tttaka ?eirra ? verkefninu?Frontiers in Retreat. N? l?kur seinni dv?l ?eirra fr? ma? – j?n? 2016 og munu ni?urst??ur ?r vinnuferlinu ver?a til s?nis ? Skaftfell ? n?sta ?ri.
Kati Gausmann is a sculptor living and working in Berlin. Her work is concerned with movement, rhythm, and action as form-generating processes. In her artistic practice she combines the exploration of different materials and their qualities with acts of drawing, installation, and performance. Artistic expeditions and theoretical investigations are an important part of her working methodology.?With the artist group msk7 and as a solo artist Kati has exhibited widely in Germany, as well as at Gallery Kling og Bang, Reykjav?k. While participating the Frontiers in Retreat project Gausmann has an online sketch book:?https://katigausmann.wordpress.com
Richard Skelton is an artist from northern England, UK. His work is informed by landscape, evolving from sustained immersion in specific environments and deep, wide-ranging research incorporating toponymy and language, ecology and geology, folklore and myth. Over the past 10 years he has worked with texts, artists books, films and music, but more recently he has become interested in using curation as a means of exploring counter-historical narratives. Alongside running Corbel Stone Press with the Canadian poet Autumn Richardson, he is founding member of the Notional Research Group for Cultural Artefacts and the Centre for Alterity Studies.
R??hildur Ingad?ttir lives and works in Reykjav?k and Copenhagen, She studied art in England from 1980 to 86, and has been active as an artist since then. Ingad?ttirs approach includes text, drawings, wall paintings, sculptures and videos and often these elements are incorporated into expansive installations. She has through the years exhibited extensively in Europe.?Ingad?ttir was a visiting lecturer at the Iceland Academy of the Arts from 1992-2002. She has also been visiting lecturer at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. She was on the board of the Living Art Museum in Reykjavik for some years, and curated and co-curated exhibitions there as well as elsewhere.?From 2012 to 2014 she acted as an honorary artistic director at Skaftfell Center for Visual Art in Sey?isfj?r?ur, Iceland. Ingad?ttir has received art awards and travelling grants both in Iceland and Denmark.
N?nar um Frontiers in Retreat
Skaftfell tekur um ?essar mundir ??tt ? umfangsmiklu Evr?psku myndlistarverkefni sem mun standa yfir ? 5 ?r. Verkefni? hefur heiti? Frontiers in Retreat og er vettvangur ranns?knami?a?ra gestavinnustofa me? ?a? a? markmi?i a? stu?la a? ?verfaglegu samtali um vistfr??ileg m?lefni. Stofna? hefur veri? n?tt Evr?psk netverk gestavinnustofa, lista- og menntastofnana, listamanna og s?rfr??inga ? hinum ?msu greinum. Frumkv??i af verkefninu og skipuleggjandi er HIAP Helsinki International Artist Programme. Samstarfsa?ilar eru Mustarinda ? Finnlandi, Scottish Sculpture Workshop SSW ? Skotlandi, Interdisciplinary Art Group SERDE ? Lettlandi, Cultural Front GRAD ? Serb?u, Centre d-Art i Natura de Farrera ? Sp?ni og Jutempus ? Lith?en. Frontiers in Retreat hefur veri? fj?rmagna? me? styrk ?r menningar??tlun ESB fyrir ?rin 2013-2018.
Yfir tuttugu listam?nnum ver?ur bo?i? v?tt og breytt um Evr?pu ? ranns?knami?a?ar gestavinnustofur sem samstarfsa?ilarnir starfr?kja. Sta?setning hvers samstarfaa?ila er vi?urkennd sem endim?rk (frontiers) og ver?ur n?lgast hvern sta? ?t fr? landfr??ip?lit?skum, f?lagslegum og hagr?num forsendum. Me?an ? verkefninu stendur munu listamennirnir fer?ast innan gestavinnustofunetsins, rannsaka einkennandi vistfr??ilegt samhengi ? hverjum sta? fyrir sig, koma ? ?ekkingarmi?lun milli mismunandi greina ? frumkv??lavinnustofum (m?lstofum) og ?r?a n? listaverk.
Markmi? verkefnisins er a? v?kka skilning ? hnattr?num vistfr??ilegum breytingum og sta?bundnum ?hrifum ?eirra ? n?tt?rulegt umhverfi Evr?pu me? vinnua?fer?um samt?mamyndlistar og gegnum ?verfaglega n?lgun. Frontiers in Retreat er svar vi? a?kallandi ??rf fyrir a? endurskilgreina sambandi? vi? sta?i ?ar sem f?lki me? varanlega b?setu f?kkar ? sama t?ma og ?eir horfast ? augu vi? aukna athygli s?kum mismunandi vistfr??ilegra og efnahagslegra ?st??na. Verkefni? n?lgast landam?ri, tiltekna n?tt?rulega sta?i innan Evr?pu, sem eru a? ?v? er vir?ist ?tengdir ??ttb?lissv??um, sem sta?i ?ar sem hnattr?n vistfr??ilegu athugunarefni ? margbreytileika s?num ver?a auglj?s.
Skapandi og gagnr?num afur?um verkefnis ver?ur mi?la? sta?bundi? og al?j??lega me? opinni fr??sludagskr?. Dagskr?in ver?ur skipul?g? ? samstarfi vi? listmenntunar- og ranns?knastofnanir og samanstendur af nokkrum s?ningum sem og ranns?knar??um. A? auki ver?ur ranns?knarferlinu og vinnan ? hverri gestavinnustofu skr?? og mi?la? me? skjalas?fnum, b??i efnislegum og ? netinu, um heimas??u sem tengir sta?ina hvor ??rum og me? ?tg?fu ?ri? 2018.