We are thrilled to announce the recipients of the Nordic Baltic Funded residency supported by Nordic Culture Point who will be joining us August-October 2025.
Kristina Stallvik is an artist, curator, and small publisher. Working within the field of queer ecology, Stallvik is interested in the technological mediation of non-human nature and testing the relationship between curatorial and editorial modes. Recent presentations have been staged at Y Gallery (Reykjavik), Between Bridges (Berlin), Kunsthall Trondheim (Trondheim). At Skaftfell, Stallvik will continue their engagement with moments of surveillance glitches in the 300 public access live webcam streams stationed around the landmass of Iceland. Their work focuses on physical interactions between the webcam lens and forces of weather – fog, ash, sleet, rain, hail – considering the resulting obfuscation as “fictions” produced only by the physics of light within the webcam itself, rather than a documentation of external truth – questioning both narrative power and the directionality of a mechanic gaze.
And artist duo Yvette Bathgate og Jake Shepherd, based in Estonia. Their practice explores collaborative models of production and labours of care. They began working together in 2016 with curatorial collective Tendency Towards, and are now 2/5ths of artist collective, Tactics for Togetherness, co-running Communal Powers, a community library of books and tools, activated by a peer-learning programme. Over 7 years they worked as social practitioners within contexts of education, the NHS, social care, art galleries and community-groups across the north-east of Scotland.
We look forward to welcoming them in Seyðisfjörður.