Litten Nystrøm

Titel :

Several Simultaneous Sensations
About:
Live video performance exploring sensation and memory materialized in layers, shapes and frequencies.

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Litten Nystrøms work often crosses media and genres, to define a space where object, space and actions overlap. The result can be characterized as subtle manifestations addressing ongoing interventions between time, circumstance, matter and consciousness, positioning matter and image as restless forms with fleeting properties. Concepts and dialogues often developed on site, materialize in works and assemblies that are both happenings and tangible compositions in one.

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Aleksi Jaakkola

“Cross-section” / Aleksi Jaakkola / 2021
https://www.aleksijaakkola.com/

Synopsis:
The cross-section is a visual journey that dives into a Pear by cutting edge observations. Layer by layer this investigation seeks out an understanding of the fruit.

Description:
The cross-section is a performance, video, documentation, a journey from minimal to complex. It has happened and happening now.

 about  Aleksi Jaakkola  // video, sound, performance, feedback video, installation //

 

 

Gunnar Gunnarsson

Gunnar Gunnarsson myndlistarmaður

Fæddur í Reykjavík 1949 Ég kynntist myndlist snemma, þar sem faðir minn rak Listvinasalinn (Ásmundarsal; nú Listasafn alþýðu) á 6. áratugnum. Fjölskyldan bjó á neðri hæð húsins en sýningarsalur var á efri hæð.

Ég hef alla tíð haft mikinn áhuga á list og listsköpun.

Fyrir tuttugu árum hóf ég að stunda skipulegt myndlistarnám m.a. í Myndlistarskóla Reykjavíkur og Myndlistarskóla Kópavogs. Ennfremur dvaldi ég í Portúgal um nokkurra mánaða skeið, starfaði þar með myndlistarmönnum og tók þátt í sýningum.

Síðan hef ég verið virkur myndlistarmaður.

Um nokkurra ára skeið rak ég sýningarsal, Gunnarssal, á Þernunesi og sýndi þar bæði eigin verk og annarra. Þar voru meðal annars sýndar myndir úr safni foreldra minna, mestmegnis geometrískar afstraktmyndir frá sjötta og sjöunda áratugnum.

Ég hef orðið fyrir miklum áhrifum af Ásmundi Sveinssyni og listamönnum úr „Septemberhópnum“ sem voru tíðir gestir á heimili foreldra minna.

Þrátt fyrir strangflatauppeldið, leitast ég við að mála lífrænar og flæðandi myndir, sem leita út fyrir rammann. Lifræn munúðarfull form vilja ekki hverfa þrátt fyrir einbeittan vilja.

Hið litríka tilfinningalíf listamannahópsins, sem ég kynntist sem ungur, varð síðan að öllum líkindum kveikjan að því að ég las sálfræði og hef starfað sem slíkur. Áhersla mín á því sviði hefur verið frjáls líkamstjáning og hvatning til að örva sköpunargáfuna.

Ég tek þátt í starfi Grósku, félags myndlistarfólks í Garðabæ, og er stjórnarmeðlimur þar. Ég hef tekið þátt i samsýningum utanhúss og haldið fjölda einkasýninga í galleríum, á kaffihúsum og öðrum stöðum, þar sem fólk kemur saman.

Ég mála myndir í olíu, akrýl, geri skúlptúra og hef einnig spreytt mig á grafík og blandaðri tækni.

Ég hef haldið fjölda námskeiða í líkamstjáningu og losun tilfinninga, stundað listmeðferð og unnið með lífefli, Gestalt-tækni , Cranio og Aikido. Ég er virkur í félagi Ellidjarfra MR inga. Ég lít á list sem lífsnauðsynlegan þátt í þroskaferli einstaklings og virkni þjóðfélagsins. Sköpun heldur skaparanum ungum.

https://gunnargunnarsson.weebly.com/

Katrín Inga Jónsdóttir Hjördísardóttir

Katrín Inga Jónsdóttir Hjördísardóttir (b. 1982) is a universal artist living and working on planet Earth. Her subjects often include the social- and political-scape with focus on the art world phenomenon, which she funnels into her practice in unusual and personal ways. Through various methods and mediums, including writing, performance, drawing and sculpture, she addresses, challenges and becomes the subject of her artwork. Jónsdóttir Hjördísardóttir has built up a remarkable resume of exhibitions and performance projects, working in several countries. While often focusing on women and gender issues, she presents a wider critical discussion that involves art history and theory. Her exhibitions and performances are at once serious and wryly humorous. Jónsdóttir Hjördísardóttir has presented solo projects and performances, most notably at Living Art Museum, Reykjavik (2013) and her work and performances have been presented in group exhibitions at platforms including High Line Art, New York, USA (2017); Kunstmuseum Licthenstein, Vadaus, Licthenstein, (2015); and XVII Biennial of Young Artists, MEDITERRANEA17, Milan, Italy (2015). She is the recipient of awards including a Fulbright Scholarship (2012); the Dungal Art Fund award (2012); the Gudmunda Andresdottir Scholarship (2013); the Icelandic Art Salary from the government of Iceland, Iceland (2015/2017); and the Svavar Guðnasson & Ástu Eirkiskdóttir foundation art price for the promotion of young Icelandic artists (2017). Jónsdóttir Hjördísardóttir graduated with a MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York (2014); a BA degree in Art History and Art Theory from the University of Iceland (2012); and a BA in Fine Art from the Iceland Academy of the Arts (2008).

https://www.facebook.com/KatrinIngaJonsdottirHjordisardottir/


“It is all my Fault” (2013) exhibited at High Line Art, New York 2017

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María Dalberg

is a contemporary artist based in Reykjavík. She studied Fine Arts at Iceland University of the Arts and History at the University of Iceland. She has produced works in various media, including text, performance, and film photography, she is most known for her video art installations.

For her subject matter, she explores different societies and relationships between humans and nature. In her practice, she uses old artifacts and archival work, collects historical accounts, writes fictional and non-fictional stories, and makes use of her autobiographical text and field recordings. She is interested in different technologies, and for each piece of work, she develops methods to manipulate different sound and video images.

María has exhibited her work in different places. She held a solo show at Reykjavík Art Museum (2018), performed at Cycle Music and Art Festival (2018). She exhibited her work at the 5th Moscow Biennale for young art (2016). In summer 2020, she participates in a group exhibition at Tallinn Art Hall.

 

https://www.mariadalberg.com

 

 

Þorbjörg Jónsdóttir

Visual artist and experimental filmmaker from Iceland. Her films and videos navigate between ethnography and abstract formalism, exploring preternatural states where oral-mythology and landscape collide. Thorbjorg’s most recent film A tree is like a man / En la maloca de Don William (2019) was one of the winners of FOGO Island Art Film Weekend in 2019. It premiered at CPH:DOX where it competed in the NEXT:WAVE section and has since toured the festival circuit.

http://www.thorbjorgjonsdottir.com

Gabríela Friðriksdóttir

lives and works in Reykjavík. She graduated from the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts in 1997, and in a short time she has come to be a prominent figure within the contemporary Icelandic art scene. Working in various media—sculpture, drawing, painting, sound sculpture and music—her work is strongly characterized by what has come to be called the “sweetness of horror.” Gabríela examines the chaos and excesses of society while playing on the borders of dreams and reality, drawing from a fantastic mythology of her own creation. In 2005 Gabríela was Iceland’s representative at the Venice Biennale.

 

Crepusculum, 2011
photo from the video
photographer Jiri Hroník

Tetralogia North – 2005  (Extract)

Tetralogia East – 2005  (Extract)

 

 

www.gabriela.is

Monade Li

FILOMENA (6min, b&w/colour, HD 1080p)
Experimental diptych. “Une vision d’une division”.

Direction and editing: Monade Li
Camera: ML
Sound editing: ML
Music: courtesy of Rudolph Moser (taken from “Metronia” album ©2020 Potomak)
Cast: Asdís Sif, ML
Text and vocal resonances: ML
Quotes: Mallarmé (sonnet “Salut”), Virginia Woolf** (taken from the novel “Mrs Dalloway”)

On FILOMENA:
http://limonadeart.com/2023/03/15/filomena/

Monade Li is a French artist, producer and educator working with the media of graphics and also experiments video, photography and digital collage. The artist evolves at the border between plastic arts and visual arts, performance, music. She explores the spatio-corporal resonance of ‘our human condition’.  She leads Monade Art Residency (workshops for creation and research) since 2022.

Her first self-produced experimental art video, an underwater shooting by day, “Diatomée” turned into a ‘corps-métrage’ (“body- measurement”) concept. Then came out “Claire Obscure”, an underwater shooting by night and “Malojá”, originally scored by Steven Severin (Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Glove), shot by the sea shore.

Her debut films’ triptych was done.

In homage to Bergman’s film «Persona», her fourth shortfilm shot in South of Iceland, called “Candice”, scored by Steven Severin featuring Julia Kent on cello, was presented at “Air d’Islande” festival in Paris, in Hong Kong and also in Orkney in 2015.During her stay in 2016 at ArtsIceland residency in Ísafjörður, she worked on an experimental shortfilm titled “Hollie”, scored by the epic musician-performer Dirk Ivens; it is an homage to the Icelandic painter Georg Guðni and based on “Gotuljod / Poème de la rue” by the Icelandic author Sigurður Pálsson. Hollie was in competition at “Festival du Nouveau Cinéma” in Montreal in 2017 and also at “Bideodromo” festival in Bilbao in 2018.

The encounter with the Icelandic culture and people in 2013 led her to do some more research on the Icelandic literature and art for her experiments.Her art video called “The Selkie”, which is based on a mysterious seal woman legend, was premiered in Akureyri, Iceland, in October 2019.

With the triptych films ‘Candice’, (2014) ‘The Selkie’ (2019) and ‘Deirdre et une Tristesse humaine’ (2022), the artist questions the duplication with resonances that leads to the disappearance of ‘humanity’. In the beginning of 2023, Monade Li worked on ‘Filomena’, an experimental diptych art film embodied by the music of Rudolph Moser (Einstürzende Neubauten).

For Filomena, she takes up the theme covered in her first film “Diatomée”, where the oneiric body, confused with the elements, fits the shape of “tense and twisted postures linking the conscious and the unconscious, the exterior and the interior”.

 

 

Filmography:

Diatomée, 6 min, color, 4/3 DV. 2005. France.

Claire Obscure,  5 min, color, 4/3 DV. 2009. France.

Malojá, 6 min, color, 4/3 DV. 2010. France.

Go And Come Back by Fleeting Joys, music video 5 min 30 sec, b/w/color, HD 1080p, 2011. France.

Dérapage, a loss of control, experiment 2 min, color, 4/3 DV. 2011. France.

Slowed by Pieter Nooten, music video 10 min, bw, HD 1080p, 2012. France and Spain.

Fragments / Journal / Drones by Fire Temple, music video 9 min, bw, HD 1080p, 2014. France.

Candice, 9 min25 sec, bw/color, HD 1080p. 2014. France and Iceland.

Almaliza, 5 min, bw /color, HD 1080p, 2015, France.

LaOT / Love and Other Tragedies by Roger O’Donnell (The Cure), «Rehearsals at St Leonard’s Church, London» documentary, 15 min, bw/color, HD 1080p. 2015. UK.

Dérapage#2, MH/MnHn, experiment 2 min 50, bw, 4/3 DV. 2016. France. Experimental workshop.

Hollie, 6 min, bw/color, HD 1080p. 2017. France and Iceland.

Percival’s Perceived Pebble, 12 min, bw/color, HD 1080p. 2018. FranceIceland and UK.

The Selkie, 8 min, bw/color, HD 1080p. 2019-2020. France and Iceland.

Filomena, 6 min, bw/color, HD 1080p. 2023. France.

My favourite quote (-;

“The process of making films in communion with oneself, the way a painter works or a writer, need not now be solely experimental. Contrary to what people say, using the first-person in films tends to be a sign of humility: ‘All I have to offer is myself'”
Chris Marker, 1997.

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