Articles by: Tinna

Artist talk #20

Artist talk #20

Meet and hear the current artists in residence at Skaftfell Jessica Auer (CA) and the artist duo GIDEONSSON/LONDRÉ (SE) present their work on Tuesday January the 20th. at 17:00. The artist talk will take place at the Skaftfell Bistro. Welcome! GIDEONSSON/LONDRÉ – image from local performance “Twenty Four Seven” Jessica Auer (b.1978) is a photographer and visual artist from Montreal, Canada. Her work is broadly concerned with the study of cultural sites, focusing on themes that connect place, journey and cultural experience. Jessica received her MFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University in 2007 and has since exhibited her work in […]

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Still Ruins, Moving Stones

The video work Still Ruins, Moving Stones by Canadian artist Jessica Auer is screened at the Bookshop – projectspace window evenings from Thursday Jan 22 to Jan 29, 2015. Four hundred years after settling a new world, the Norse colonizers of Greenland disappeared. For centuries after they vanished, their lands lay mostly untouched until another group of settlers rediscovered these remote sites. Still Ruins, Moving Stones takes the viewer to South Greenland where Danish archeologists work on the restoration of some the world’s best-preserved Norse ruins. This contemplative video explores how humans move about altering the landscape, adding new layers […]

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