Past program

Artist talk #4

Wednesday, February 16th at 17:00 at the Skaftfell Bistro. The artist duo Konrad Korabiewski and Litten will talk about their work and present the audio-visual book-work ‘AFFECTED AS ONLY A HUMAN BEING CAN BE’. Korabiewski and Litten are artists in residence at Hóll residency during January and February 2011. The artist Anthony Bacigalupo will talk about his work and show images. About the artists: Konrad Korabiewski (1978): Konrad distances himself from a generation of designed category music-makers, trying to fit in. As an experimental electronic musician, composer and multimedia artist, he is concerned and focused on absorption, content and atmosphere […]

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The Narrative Collection

Skaftfell has taken on the extensive project of collecting narratives from all the inhabitants of Seyðisfjörður. Swiss Artist Cristoph Büchel, Skaftfell´s Art Director 2011-2012, initiated the project but it will be carried out in cooperation with the Icelandic Centre for Ethnology and Folklore (ICEF). The collection will take place simultaneously in Strandir and Seyðisfjörður. It is unique to have the opportunity to map the memories of an entire community. That sort of mapping not only gives insight into the community in question but is also a unique contemporary documentation. A document on human existence, a document on the passing of […]

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