Ástríður Jónsdóttir and Zekarias Musele Thompson are interdisciplinary artists, based in Reykjavík and Oakland, California, whose collaborative work spans photography, performance, sculpture, sound, and writing. Their practice explores how perception, memory, and relational attention shape the ways we move through and make meaning with our environments. Drawing from embodied research and shared observation, they treat collaboration as both subject and method, emphasizing intuition, slowness, and care.

During their residency at Skaftfell, they will develop On Collaboration, a site-responsive research project that uses walking, listening, and making as tools for exploring shared perception. Through daily walks and material responses in oil, graphite, and sound, they will investigate how meaning arises when minds and place meet. Community engagement, through formal and informal conversations, varied collaborations, and participatory performance support integration in their ongoing inquiry into co-authorship.