{"id":11184,"date":"2015-03-03T11:17:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T11:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skaftfell.avistaserver.com\/en\/?p=9656"},"modified":"2022-03-29T14:28:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T14:28:46","slug":"no-time-to-look-though-the-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/no-time-to-look-though-the-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"No time to look through the mountains?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Bookshop &#8211; Projectspace<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>March 7-8, at 18:30 &#8211; 20:30<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>No time to look through the mountains?<\/em> is a site-specific project by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.effrosyni.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Effrosyni Kontogeorgou<\/a> (GR) developed especially for the Bookshop &#8211; Projectspace during a one month residency at Skaftfell.<\/p>\n<p>The artist questions exactly the nature of her residency. What can be perceived in just 30 days in an a unknown place? Merely outlines. The first and strongest impression remains the encirclement by the mountains. But do the mountains stand as a metaphor for enclosure or an orientation to open up? By means of abstraction, the house itself with its windows connecting to the outdoor surroundings, becomes the object of investigation for the artist during her stay in Sey\u00f0isfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition is divided into two room-installations and combines diverse media, such as video, pencil on paper, found objects, light and sound. The exhibition is jointly composed of three elements: with thankful reference to the local artist Gar\u00f0ar Eymundsson and his work the <em>Seydisfjordur`s Circle of Mountains<\/em>, outlines from the 465 pages of the book <em>H\u00fasasaga Sey\u00f0isfjar\u00f0arkaupsta\u00f0ar <\/em>by \u00c1r\u00f3ra Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir and some fragments from the Nor\u00f0urgata residence, where the artists where hosted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150303_no_time_to_look_through_the_mountains_forweb.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9657\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9657\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150303_no_time_to_look_through_the_mountains_forweb-300x539.jpg\" alt=\"No-time-to-look-through-the-mountains-forWeb\" width=\"300\" height=\"539\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bookshop &#8211; Projectspace March 7-8, at 18:30 &#8211; 20:30 No time to look through the mountains? is a site-specific project by Effrosyni Kontogeorgou (GR) developed especially for the Bookshop &#8211; Projectspace during a one month residency at Skaftfell. The artist questions exactly the nature of her residency. What can be perceived in just 30 days in an a unknown place? Merely outlines. The first and strongest impression remains the encirclement by the mountains. But do the mountains stand as a metaphor for enclosure or an orientation to open up? By means of abstraction, the house itself with its windows [\u2026] <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"more_link clearfix\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/no-time-to-look-though-the-mountains\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,191,170,233,86,264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2015-en","category-artists-in-residence","category-lidnar-syningar","category-past-exhibitions-and-events","category-pastprogram","category-residency-events-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11184"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}