{"id":11039,"date":"2009-06-20T12:40:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T12:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skaftfell.avistaserver.com\/en\/?p=5877"},"modified":"2020-07-02T14:25:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T14:25:55","slug":"lambing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/lambing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lambing season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The past few years I have been preparing an exhibition or happening under the title Fundamentals. It addresses the magical day in smaller Icelandic communities when sheep is gathered from the mountains. The beginning of a new era, culture and abundance.\u2028\u2028I hadn\u2019t given sheep or farming any particular thought since childhood, until I moved close to where the sheep is gathered. I then felt childhood memories rush forth and I experienced the sheep sorting and life in the countryside in a whole new way. Extraordinary how strong the roots of sheep farming are with the Icelandic people. The sheep stands strong amongst all pioneering.\u2028Today, I am interested in environmental and patriotic industries as farming. When I started working on three-dimensional pieces, I looked for material in the local dumpster area. That was because of lack of money, but also because of recycling ideas.\u2028\u2028Society\u2019s various forms have always been my subjects. Two-dimensionally at first, but three-dimensionally in later years. I often get all kinds of people to take part in my exhibitions. Lecturers, musicians, children and teenagers, actors, poets and other artists. In that way, I get a broader perspective on what I am doing and unexpected things happen, as if by magic.\u2028On R\u00e9ttardagur (Fundamentals) I will in fact gather artists working on miscellaneous forms of art, to unite under this patriotic flag.\u2028<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>The sound-work created for the exhibition is by Mirjam Blekkenhorst.<\/p>\n<p>For further information go to www.freyjulundur.is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past few years I have been preparing an exhibition or happening under the title Fundamentals. It addresses the magical day in smaller Icelandic communities when sheep is gathered from the mountains. The beginning of a new era, culture and abundance.\u2028\u2028I hadn\u2019t given sheep or farming any particular thought since childhood, until I moved close to where the sheep is gathered. I then felt childhood memories rush forth and I experienced the sheep sorting and life in the countryside in a whole new way. Extraordinary how strong the roots of sheep farming are with the Icelandic people. The sheep stands [\u2026] <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"more_link clearfix\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/lambing\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,233,86],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-11039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2009-en","category-past-exhibitions-and-events","category-pastprogram","tag-bookshop-projectspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}