Articles by: Tinna

SUM

SUM

Premier screening of the new film work SUM by Cai Ulrich von Platen. Sunday March 1, at 16:00 in Herðubreið cinema. About the film: We enter a small intimate office-space in Copenhagen. From the safe surroundings of two elderly accountants performing their daily book keeping routines, we are oscillated out to similarly unspectacular scenes in Hanoi, Hamburg, Damascus and Narva in Estonia. We hear speaking voices, but the moving bodies, the exchange of goods, of gazes and positions is what layers into a sum of life. The point of departure of SUM is simple: A single man with his small […]

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Listamannaspjall #21

Listamannaspjall #21

Fimmtudaginn 12. febrúar kl. 17:00 í Skaftfell Bistró. Danski listamaðurinn Cai Ulrich von Platen, gríski listamaðurinn Effrosyni Kontogeorgou – búsettur í Berlín, og breski rithöfundurinn Helen Jukes kynna verk sín og viðfangsefni á listamannaspjalli. The work of visual artist Cai Ulrich von Platen (born 1955) encompasses painting, sculpture, installation, photography and video. His studio praxis gives rise to very distinctive and personal exhibits, films and books, and he simultaneously participates in a wide variety of artistic collaborations and artist ontrolled exhibition projects. Effrosyni Kontogeorgou (born 1980, Athens, GR) works with time-based media, such as video and performance. The main topic […]

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