{"id":10386,"date":"2012-03-16T10:58:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T10:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/exhibition\/skalar-preview-venue\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:32:13","slug":"skalar-preview-venue","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/exhibition\/skalar-preview-venue\/","title":{"rendered":"Skalar preview venue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, April 9, at 21<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120403_skalar.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1677\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1677 lazyload\" title=\"skalar\" data-src=\"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120403_skalar-300x435.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"435\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/435;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sk\u00c3\u00a1lar Sound Art Festival preview venue: Presentation of Sk\u00c3\u00a1lar and showcase-concert.<\/p>\n<p>Konrad Korabiewski, AuxPan &#038; Helgi \u00c3\u0096rn P\u00c3\u00a9tursson.<\/p>\n<p>The art-collective will present the ideology behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sk\u00c3\u00a1lar.is\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sk\u00c3\u00a1lar &#8211; Centre For Sound Art and Experimental Music<\/a> and play a joined experimental concert. After the concert, during the evening, the artists and initiators will present sound art and music representative for the profile of Sk\u00c3\u00a1lar at the Skaftfell bistro.<\/p>\n<p>Sk\u00c3\u00a1lar is a new established Center For Sound Art and Experimental Music to be located in the factory space of the former Nordursild fish factory, situated in a unique place by the seaside of Seydisfj\u00c3\u00b6rdur.\u00c2\u00a0Seeking and supporting artistic depth and quality, the aim of Sk\u00c3\u00a1lar is to provide a platform for experiments, collaborations, presentations, studies and inspiration to professional artists and students in good working facilities.\u00c2\u00a0 It wishes to work with related institutions, and to create a basis for international interchange and network.<\/p>\n<p>This autumn, Sk\u00c3\u00a1lar intend to establish an annual international Sound-Art festival. The aim of the festival is to present a wide range of original artistic expression experimenting to the highest degree within sound-art and sound in reletion to others mediaforms. More info: https:\/\/sk\u00c3\u00a1lar.is<\/p>\n<p>About the artists and founders:<\/p>\n<p>Elvar M\u00c3\u00a1r Kjartansson ( 1982 )<\/p>\n<p>Obsessive music-maverick Elvar M\u00c3\u00a1r Kjartansson aka Auxpan, is a sound-crafter with knack for creating selfdeveloped original apparatures. Auxpan creates music where sound bytes, rhythmic patterns,\u00c2\u00a0 and fieldrecordings come together to form an experimental highly personal sound.<\/p>\n<p>Helgi \u00c3\u0096rn P\u00c3\u00a9tursson (1975) is an artist of chaotic and yet calculated proportions.<\/p>\n<p>Helgi \u00c3\u0096rn \u0301s musical background comes both from the classical field, having been member of the Hamrahlid Choir for over six years, singing both classical music as well as Icelandic folksong and extensive array of contemporary music as well as having been in various bands from an early age.<\/p>\n<p>Polish | Danish <a href=\"https:\/\/korabiewski.com%20\/\">Konrad Korabiewski<\/a> (1978) is an award-winning multimedia artist.<\/p>\n<p>Focused on absorption, content and atmosphere of sound rather than a certain media, he experiments and develops new possibilities for expressing\u00c2\u00a0 philosophical views and artistic ideologies in sensing music and art.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0More info: http\/\/<a href=\"https:\/\/konradkorabiewski.blog.com\/\">konradkorabiewski.blog.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more info: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sk\u00c3\u00a1lar.is\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.sk\u00c3\u00a1lar.is<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_exhibition_status":0,"wds_primary_location":0,"footnotes":""},"exhibition_status":[140],"location":[],"class_list":["post-10386","exhibition","type-exhibition","status-publish","hentry","exhibition_status-past-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/10386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibition"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/10386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"exhibition_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition_status?post=10386"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=10386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}