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 […]
Residency events and activities
SUM
Premier screening of the new film work SUM by Cai Ulrich von Platen. Sunday March 1, at 16:00 in Herðubreið cinema. About the film: We enter a small intimate office-space in Copenhagen. From the safe surroundings of two elderly accountants performing their daily book keeping routines, we are oscillated out to similarly unspectacular scenes in Hanoi, Hamburg, Damascus and Narva in Estonia. We hear speaking voices, but the moving bodies, the exchange of goods, of gazes and positions is what layers into a sum of life. The point of departure of SUM is simple: A single man with his small […]