Artists-in-Residence

No time to look through the mountains?

The Bookshop – Projectspace March 7-8, at 18:30 – 20:30 No time to look through the mountains? is a site-specific project by Effrosyni Kontogeorgou (GR) developed especially for the Bookshop – Projectspace during a one month residency at Skaftfell. The artist questions exactly the nature of her residency. What can be perceived in just 30 days in an a unknown place? Merely outlines. The first and strongest impression remains the encirclement by the mountains. But do the mountains stand as a metaphor for enclosure or an orientation to open up? By means of abstraction, the house itself with its windows […]

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Twenty-Four Seven

The balance between exhaustion and regeneration as a rhythmic exchange between light and darkness. In the brightness, we’re in a state of exposure with a constant demand to produce. The sheltering darkness becomes a necessary counterpart that allows recuperation and the possibility to disappear from the public scene. Fifteen Fifteen Saturday, Jan 10 at 21.00 Lecture at Bookshop Twenty-Three Twenty-Three Monday Jan 12 – Friday Jan 15, from 10-15 Video at the Gas station Twenty-Four Seven Date and time TBA Durational performance behind bookshop Bio GIDEONSSON/LONDRÃ (SWE) was formed as a duo in 2009 because of a joint interest in […]

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