{"id":9902,"date":"2016-04-01T13:57:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T13:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skaftfell.avistaserver.com\/?p=9902&lang=en"},"modified":"2020-05-12T10:19:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T10:19:09","slug":"frontiers-of-solitude-project-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/frontiers-of-solitude-project-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Frontiers of Solitude – project presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frontiers of Solitude<\/a> is a collaborative project between Skolska Gallery in Prague (CZ), Atelier Nord in Oslo (NO), and Skaftfell Center for Visual Art in Sey\u00f0isfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur (IS), which is now coming to an end. From April 2015 to April 2016 Frontiers of Solitude has worked with 20 artists through a series of field expeditions, workshops, lectures, symposia, and exhibitions. The project has focused on the effects of recent industrial human activity on the natural world. It invited its participants to observe and address the ecological and socio-economic impacts of energy production and mining on specific landscapes in Czech Republic, Norway, and Iceland.<\/p>\n

In the context of the project six artists from the three participating countries were invited to East Iceland in August 2015. Organized by Skaftfell, they undertook a 12-day expedition tracing the ecological and socio-economic effects of hydropower, in particular the systemic connections between K\u00e1rahnj\u00fakar hydroelectric dam, Alcoa Fjar\u00f0a\u00e1l in Rey\u00f0arfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, and the H\u00e9ra\u00f0sfl\u00f3i estuary in East Iceland. Four more artists from Iceland took part in similar multinational expeditions, which led them to the industrial mining and oil refinery sites in northern Norway and to the open pit coal mines in Czech Republic. The works shown in the Skaftfell gallery present a selection of artistic responses to these three expeditions.<\/p>\n

The Frontiers of Solitude project has been exhibited in its entirety at Skolska Gallery, Fotograf Gallery, and Ex-Post Gallery in Prague (CZ), co-curated by Dana Recmanov\u00e1 (CZ), Ivar Smedstad (NO), and Julia Martin (IS).<\/p>\n

A selection of works has been shown at The Vyso\u010dina Regional Gallery in Jihlava (CZ). Further presentations are planned at the Jan Evangelista Purkny\u00e9 University in Usti nad Labem (CZ), and at Atelier Nord in Oslo (NO).<\/p>\n

The project is documented in a catalogue which is available for viewing in the Skaftfell gallery.<\/p>\n

At Skaftfell, the participating artists are:<\/p>\n

Finnur Arnar Arnarson (IS), Karlotta Bl\u00f6ndal (IS), Peter Cusack (UK\/CZ), \u00de\u00f3runn Eymundard\u00f3ttir (IS), Iselin Linstad Hauge (NO), Monika Fry\u010dov\u00e1 (CZ\/IS), Elvar M\u00e1r Kjartansson (IS), Alena Kotzmannov\u00e1 (CZ), Pavel Mrkus (CZ), Greg Pope (UK\/NO), Krist\u00edn R\u00fanarsd\u00f3ttir (IS), Ivar Smedstad (NO), Diana Winklerov\u00e1 (CZ), Martin Zet (CZ). <\/strong><\/p>\n

Project management by Julia Martin.<\/p>\n

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Frontiers of Solitude project is supported by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Grants (Program CZ06 Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Arts<\/a>). The project is a joint initiative of the Skolska 28 Gallery<\/a> (Deai\/setkn),\u00a0Atelier Nord<\/a> and Skaftfell – Center for Visual Art.<\/p>\n

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For more information:\u00a0www.frontiers-of-solitude.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frontiers of Solitude is a collaborative project between Skolska Gallery in Prague (CZ), Atelier Nord in Oslo (NO), and Skaftfell Center for Visual Art in Sey\u00f0isfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur (IS), which is now coming to an end. From April 2015 to April 2016 Frontiers of Solitude has worked with 20 artists through a series of field expeditions, workshops, lectures, symposia, and exhibitions. The project has focused on the effects of recent industrial human activity on the natural world. It invited its participants to observe and address the ecological and socio-economic impacts of energy production and mining on specific landscapes in Czech Republic, Norway, [\u2026] <\/p>\n

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