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. 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.
Kristina Stallvik is supported by Nordic Council of Ministers’ Culture and Art Programme.
