David Edward Allen (UK) lives in Berlin. His work revolves around a broadened notion of Landscape and our position as part of it. Using, for example, natural phenomena such as gravity, the organic growth of trees, or the movement of a sound wave, to set up formal structures which are open to processes of re-organisation. Allen`s works are like experiments to isolate, or rather traps set to capture, moments of change, movement, or sets of circumstance; using environments as a means to effect or create form. David Edward Allen will be working as an artist-in-residence at Skaftfell in May and […]
Residency program
Call for applications – Climbing Invisible Structures
Climbing Invisible Structures is a curated visual arts residency exchange and exhibition programme organised by the Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts (NAC) (Lithuania), in collaboration with the Office for Contemporary Art Norway, the Nordic Artists Centre Dale (Norway), Skaftfell Center for Visual Art (Iceland), and the Ars Communis Residency Centre YO-YO (Lithuania). Curators are Eglė Mikalajūnė and Samir Mkadmi. Visual artists based in or being nationals of Norway, Iceland or Lithuania are welcome to apply. Deadline May 24, 2015. CONCEPT According to the French philosopher Michel Foucault, disciplinary practices can be both symbolic and instrumental in shaping, […]