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Jin Jing & Liu Yuanyuan

Jin Jing & Liu Yuanyuan

When The Boat Is Sailing Into Island I Know No More Than What I Know Now On September 26, from 17:00-20:00, Jin Jing (CN) and Liu Yuanyuan (CN) are holding a pop-up exhibition in Herðubreið’s gallery space, presenting the outcomes of their two-month residency at Skaftfell. Light refreshments will be available, and everyone is welcome. Jin Jing works and lives in Xiamen, China. She holds two MFA degrees from Xiamen University and from the Sandberg Instituut, Netherlands. Apart from developing her individual artistic work she has co-founded Wallcode design studio and the JieShiWu art project which is engaged in artistic research and art project […]

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Call for Applications – Wanderlust Thematic Residency 2020

Call for Applications – Wanderlust Thematic Residency 2020

THIS CALL IS NOW CLOSED. Skaftfell is inviting applications to participate in the thematic residency „Wanderlust“, which will be taking place June 8-30, 2020. Application deadline: October 31, 2019 Referring to Rebecca Solnit’s book Wanderlust, this thematic residency will bring together seven artists who wish to consider the notion of wandering as an aesthetic practice. Linking the activities of walking, thinking and art-making, the aim of the residency will be to explore how art can convey one’s experience of place.  The roads, paths, and valleys of Seydisfjördur will provide participants with the arena to move and think about notions of space, […]

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