Artists-in-Residence

The Residency Program is now open for applications for 2015

The Residency Program is now open for applications for 2015

Program Outline The aim of Skaftfell´s residency program is manifold: to create and nurture an environment for inspiration; to encourage artists to experience life and work in a unique micro-community where creativity is applied to the everyday; to foster a sense of community between artists and the public in the setting of rural East-Iceland; to facilitate circumstances for artists to experience, reflect and explore new means of their practice and, to provide conditions that stimulate the dialogue between art and life. The program is aimed at professional visual artists, but those working across fields, or within an interdisciplinary practice are […]

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TO GO VIKING

TO GO VIKING

Hilde Skevik & Guro Gomo: TO GO VIKING The Dreamhouse – Norðurgata residency. 26. – 29. October 2012 Four evenings, from 18.00-20.00, the artistic duo will “go viking”and mediate a story and the heritage from their native Norway. They will give a performance (live and video) based upon the poem “Terje Vigen” by Henrik Ibsen, addressing belonging as a basic and timeless value. Free entry.