Residency events and activities

Colourfields: Radiating and Reflecting

in 2016, Artists-in-Residence, Past program, Residency events and activities

Lola Bezemers work concentrateson the experience of colour and light in architectural spaces. When going to Iceland, she brought a pile of coloured fabrics to work with in the snow white landscape.Like using a white wall to project on, one can also use a white landscape for the same purpose. A video work made outside in the landscape is presented inside the Bookshop project space and is juxtaposed by an interior light installation. Both works are comprised of coloured parachute fabric, yet make use of different characteristics of the material: In the installation the fabric radiates light and appears still […]

Zeus Tears and a seance performance

in 2015, Artists-in-Residence, Past program, Residency events and activities, Residency program

Linda Persson is a Swedish artist / filmmaker and a returning Artist-in-Residence at Skaftfell. Throughout my practice language has played a central role. What interests me in language is its ability to fail meaning. I use dead, peripheral and code languages to excavate meaning. Its like an archaeological dig in a search for a forgotten empire. For the event Thursday Nov 26, starting at 20.00, Linda has invited Pip Stafford who is a Tasmanian media artist and producer based in Hobart. Her work is primarily concerned with networks and communications, rituals and patterns, radio and feminist methodologies. We will combine […]