Natures aesthetic preservation and human intervention / aspects of utopia and dystopia. This Thursday evening, August 28, the Greek artists Maria Glyka and Vassilis Vlastaras will present a taste of their recent project they have been working on while residing in Seyðisfjörður as artists in residence, at the Bookshop – projectspace at 19.00. The project “ weeds, those trojans ” started in August 2014 by visual artists Maria Glyka and Vassilis Vlastaras as part of Skaftfell’s artist in residence program. The artists borrowed the phrase of the title from H. D. ThoreauÂs ÂWalden; or Life in the Woods (1854) where he sets […]
Artists-in-Residence
Secret Garden Verönd
OPENING EVENT AND RELEASE OF PUBLICATION AT HÃLL, AUGUST 28 AT 16.00 The project SECRET GARDEN VERÃND was initiated in 2012 by visual artist Suzanna Asp in collaboration with Skaftfell, and starts off from the actual site of the house and garden at Hóll in Seyðisfjörður. The project builds on queer feminist and post-colonial theory and asks questions about relationships between text, body and place. Who is given a place, where is place given and how can a place be altered. Hóll, built in the early 20th century, is the former studio house of the Icelandic artist Birgir Andrésson and […]