Artists-in-Residence

Public presentation of the project Artists as agents of institutional exchange

Public presentation of the project Artists as agents of institutional exchange

Friday, January 28, tranzit.ro/ Iași will host a public presentation of the project Artists as agents of institutional exchange, organized by tranzit.ro/ Iași in partnership with Skaftfell. In the frame of the presentation, Tinna Gudmundsdottir, the director of Skaftfell and Cristina David, the artist in residency at Seydisfjordur, Iceland will give a talk. The presentation will be available live on the website www.tranzit.org, or on the website dedicated to the project: videostream.ro About the project: Artists as agents of institutional exchange is the joint initiative of two institutions, one from Romania and one from Iceland, to create a collective platform […]

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Lifeforce, A Soliloquy and 6 Poems

Lifeforce, A Soliloquy and 6 Poems

Like a steady moving creek, life passes patiently with or without us. Lifeforce juxtaposes an out of focus image of a large boulder violently battered by cresting waves with fragmented pieces of snowy ice sheets being carried out to sea. Both films reflect spectacular rushes of energy by dilating the invisible wind force through the spatial transmutation of earth and water. A Soliloquy revitalizes and honors the Icelandic landscape in its purest form. Here we see “a scientist” moving through various stately scenes with a metal detector in hand searching for a material something. Through this ambit of visual poetry […]

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