Thanks to support from Nordic Culture Point, in collaboration with Skaftfell, we’ve been able to fully fund a three-month residency for one artist duo and one individual artist:

Yvette Bathgate and Jake Shepherd (EE/UK) are an artist duo, based in Estonia. Their practice explores collaborative models of production and labours of care. For over 7 years they have worked as social practitioners within contexts of education, the NHS, social care, art galleries and community-groups across the north-east of Scotland. Working alongside the existing communities of Seyðisfjörður, during their residency at Skaftfell, they will build a collective sculpture, exploring ideas of expanded collaboration. Producing an exhibition that includes the voices of this community, directly linking the education and exhibition aspects of the organisation, in creating a collaborative work that speaks of these relationships, and the care and tenderness that has come before us to build them.
https://yvette-jake.hotglue.me

Kristina Stallvik (NO, US) Kristina Stallvik is an artist, curator, and small publisher. Working within the field of queer ecology, Stallvik is interested in the technological mediation of non-human nature and testing the relationship between curatorial and editorial modes. At Skaftfell, Stallvik will continue their engagement with moments of surveillance glitches in the 300 public access live webcam streams stationed around the landmass of Iceland. Their work focuses on physical interactions between the webcam lens and forces of weather – fog, ash, sleet, rain, hail – considering the resulting obfuscation as “fictions” produced only by the physics of light within the webcam itself, rather than a documentation of external truth – questioning both narrative power and the directionality of a mechanic gaze. https://kristinastallvik.com/

We also welcome Lin Ni (TW/FI), attending through a scholarship provided by Skaftfell Art Center in association with the Nordic Culture Fund. Lin Ni is a multidisciplinary artist working with water. She is drawn to the momentary blue of Nordic twilight, the taste of snow, and deep skin diving in the ocean. Her works have been exhibited and screened at Haus Der Statistik, Kunstkraftwerk, Helmut Space, Herðubreið Gallery, Ateneum Art Museum, HIAP Augusta Gallery, Saari Residence. She was nominated for the Chi-Po-Lin Film Award and the New Taipei City Documentary Film Award in 2023. https://maidoutofice.com/