The event is composed of potential misunderstandings in the common memory. Various myths will be unveiled that possibly have their origins in the roots of the north. Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir was born in 1987. She graduated with BA in visual art from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2012 and held her first solo exhibition the following year. She has exhibited in many group exhibitions both here in Iceland and internationally. She also performs at poetry and music festivals. Her work often intertwines music, sound art, performance, poetry. A part of the Assembly of the Hyperboreans

We are Hyperboreans–we know well enough how remote our place is. “Neither by land nor by water will you find the road to the Hyperboreans”: even Pindar,in his day, knew that much about us. Beyond the North, beyond the ice, beyond death–our life, our happiness – Friedrich Nietzsche, Antichrist (originally published 1859) Hyperborea was described by the Greek poet Pindar as a mythical land that lay beyond the Borea north wind. It was idyllic; the sun shone twenty-four hours a day, and the inhabitants were said to live to the age of one thousand in complete happiness. The basis for […]

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