Monthly Archive for October, 2009

Sequences 2009 October 31st. Schedule continues

14.00 Air, performance by Prinz Gholam (DE). Suspended time and absorption are central in our performative work. We perform „engrossed in an activity as if in denial of an audience“. We keep still. We move according to a choreographed path. We keep close to each other, we touch each other, we lie on the floor. From one tableau to the next. www.galeriewolff.com Reykjavik Maritime Museum

15.00 Feminism, Little Tales of Misogyny by The Spartacus Chetwynd Mime Troupe (UK). The Spartacus Chetwynd Mime Troupe will present a series of narratives based on the lives of feminists. The mime performance will involve puppet shows, dance and pure expression. House of Ideas, Grandagarður 2, 101 Reykjavík

16.00 Video Screening Event: Vitaskuld, Auðvitað! by Icelandic Love Corporation (IS). The Icelandic Love Corporation (ILC) is an art collective, and it has undertaken a diverse range of work, especially performance as well as taking part in numerous exhibitions over their career. They have been working together since they graduated from the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts in 1996 and are currently based in Reykjavik. www.ilc.is Regnboginn Cinema, Hverfisgata 54, 101 Reykjavík

16.00 Video Screening Event: Four New York Minutes and Ode to An Ode by Curver Thoroddsen. Curver Thoroddsen has with his “real life-performances” and the help of the media reflected his everyday life. Curver has been working extensively with his own identity, like his decision to change his given name to “Curver” an international plastic container company showswww.ghostigital.com Regnboginn Cinema, Hverfisgata 54, 101 Reykjavík
16.00 Video Screening Event: An Exquisite Corpse in Nikisialka by 16 Icelandic & Polish artists. An experimental film conceived at “Pisland One”, an artist residency in Nikisialka, Poland, where a group of Icelandic and Polish artists resided in the summer of 2008. All the artists collaborated with filmmaker Thorgeir Gudmundsson in fulfilling a premise based on the idea of collaborative drawings that the surrealists called exquisite corpses Regnboginn Cinema, Hverfisgata 54, 101 Reykjavík

16.00 Video Screening Event: Sirkus by Bjarni massi (IS) made in collaboration with Kling & bang gallery. Sirkus was a Reykjavik bar, landmark, and hub of the alternative arts scene, which was due for demolition in 2008. Kling & bang gallery saved its facade and interior and opened up a branch in London during the fair. Sirkus is premiered in Iceland at the SEQUENCES Video Screening Event. Regnboginn Cinema, Hverfisgata 54, 101 Reykjavík

17.00 Opening Office, THE ONE LETTER DELIVERY SHOW, Parfyme (DK). Parfyme (perfume) is a four-person art collective that consists of Laurids Scone, Ebbe Dam Meinild, Pelle Brage and Douglas Paulson. They have developed and carried out several projects in the public space for the last eight years. http://www.parfyme.dk Hverfisgata 35 (auga fyrir auga)

18.00 PPPTPC – Centre for Publicity by Berglind Jóna Hlynsdóttir (IS) & Etienne de France (FR) PPPTPC is a private joint venture that aims at producing truth from the fiction of the past, present and future. With the work we want to play with the factuality of recent current events, play them of the past and create proposals for the future. We create terms that are easy to understand and reading materials that make peoples worlds a little smaller. www.etiennedefrance.com Lækjargata – Mæðragarður

At dusk ‘day for night’, Pernille Leggat Ramfelt (NO). Pernille Leggat Ramfelt’s films, photographs and accompanying texts investigate coexisting levels of reality and the mediated through the recording and reporting of current events. “day for night”, a 16 mm film projected at specific times each day, a blind, an intervention Lost Horse gallery, Vitastigur 9a, 101 Reykjavik

19.00- 19.30 ・S・C・O・U・R・G・E・, performance by Melkorka Huldudóttir (IS) Melkorka Huldudóttir graduated from The Icelandic Art Academy in 2002. She is a visual artist who uses all possible art media to convey her work and is mostly influenced by movies and computer games. She has worked in numerous collaborations and shown her work in Iceland and abroad. Dwarf Gallery, Grundarstígur 21, 101 Reykjavík

20.00 næstum því ekki neitt and Halldór Úlfarsson by Halldór Úlfarsson (IS). Halldór Úlfarsson works with aesthetics and sometimes deals with the problems connected to working with aesthetics. Much of what he does is connected to the Halldorophone – an electro-acoustic instrument he’s been developing for a few years. Halldór is an Icelandic artists based in Helsinki, Finland where he did MA in fine art and design. Islensk Grafík gallery, Tryggvagötu 17, (entrance by the harbour), 101 Reykjavík

21.00 MOVIE MATERIAL, video projection by Andrew Burgess (CA). Movie Material is a visit by a building onto another building. Another building will descend and dress up the house. It will come in the form of a number of different scenes. The new building will appear as a movie and the movie will become the material of the building. http://www.andrewburgess.com/ Concert & Conference Centre, Reykjavík Harbour, Austurbakki

22.00 Room 408, an interactive live performance by Hrafnhildur Hagalín & Steinunn Knútsdóttir (IS) Steinunn has mainly focused on progressive, cutting edge theatre, crossing the borders between disciplines, participating in many research projects. Steinunn is currently based in Iceland where she works as a theatre director and drama lecturer at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts. House of Ideas, Grandagarður 2, 101 Reykjavík

18.00 Opening of (made up and let down) by artists Anita Wernstrom (SE), Line Ellegaard (DK), Malin Stahl (SE), Pernille Leggat Ramfelt (NO) & Sofia Dahlgren (SE) The Lost Horse Gallery, Vitastigur 9a, 101 Reykjavik

18.00- 18.45 Imagined Death, performance by Anita Wernstrom (SE) Imagined deaths is a new work inspired by the death of the dancer Isadora Duncan (1878–1927), a pioneering performance artist and feminist. Her long flowing scarf got caught in the wheel of a car and strangled her, the death seems so choreographed and dramatic. www.anitawernstrom.com The Lost Horse Gallery, Vitastigur 9a, 101 Reykjavik At dusk ‘day for night’, Pernille Leggat Ramfelt (NO) Pernille Leggat Ramfelt’s films, photographs and accompanying texts investigate coexisting levels of reality and the mediated through the recording and reporting of current events. Certain events can be repeated, and in her work it is film and the per-formative that is assumed to be a unique combination of circumstances. www.pernille-leggat-ramfelt.net The Lost Horse Gallery, Vitastigur 9a, 101 Reykjavik

20.00 SEQUENCES 2009 – opening reception Reykjavik Art Museum, Hafnarhús, Tryggvagata 17, 101 Reykjavík

20.30 Taðskegglingar, performance by Magnús Pálsson (IS) SEQUENCES 2009 honorary artist Born in Iceland in 1929, Magnús Pálsson studied theatre design in the early 1950s but his artistic practice spreads out from stage design into the areas of visual arts, artists’ books, theatre pieces, audio works and teaching. Reykjavik Art Museum, Hafnarhús, Tryggvagata 17, 101 Reykjavík

21.30 Live event by Sigurður Gudjónsson (IS) A series of violent, interwoven events and actions on mortality, dreams and spirituality. Fusing currents in the Icelandic death metal scene with personal visual art practice, the artist peels the layers of an underground scene. House of Ideas , Grandagarður 2, 101 Reykjavík

22.00- 00.00 performance party This dumb region of the heart by Páll Haukur Björnsson (IS) A 15-minute video loop will be played on two separate screens in the back seat of a car. Audience will be picked up, two at a time, and driven around while they watch the videos on the screens and listen to it through headphones House of Ideas, Grandagarður 2, 101 Reykjavík

22.00- 00.00 Feminism, Little Tales of Misogyny by The Spartacus Chetwynd Mime Troupe (UK) The Spartacus Chetwynd Mime Troupe will present a series of narratives based on the lives of feminists. The mime performance will involve puppet shows, dance and pure expression House of Ideas, Grandagarður 2, 101 Reykjavík

22.00- 00.00 Untitled performance by Maurice Blok (FI) Maurice Blok will be making several different performance pieces during the festival, each as a separate event running throughout the festival week in different places around the city centre of Reykjavik House of Ideas, Grandagarður 2, 101 Reykjavík

00:00 onwards Bakkus – Sequences 2009 official bar Tryggvagata 22

Reykjavíkurvasakver – a ppptpc production

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The PPPTPC Institute
is a private joint venture that aims at producing a new Reykjavík that reflects the new Iceland. We have a whole network of departments specialized in different fields that deal with the past, present and future of the city. We work within the commerce of tourism, marketing, analysis, finance, development, news and politics. Our business is in publicity, propaganda, popular thinking and pop culture (PPPTPC). We try to use all the tools available to us in today’s information society. We use multimedia, various forms of catalogues, brochures, websites, and public events to reach our people. In this brochure, we introduce some of our projects. Thus, reflecting our identity and energy which emerged within the shores of Iceland. We want tp enlighten you about Iceland and the wonderful city of Reykjavík. You will see the city through our eyes, learn about its history though our filters and start to understand the important projects we are building for the future. We have invited our partners around the world to partake in this project bringing you our vision of how to utilize and develop the city.

Reykjavíkurvasakver

Entertainment Island 1

Oblivia_image-480x496The finish group Oblivia will be performing in Iðnó on the 1st and 6th of November  Entertainment Island 1, not the Entertainment Island 2 like earlier was announced.

Entertainment Island is the title given to Oblivias current project, 2008- 2010. During this three–year period Oblivia, through means of performance, film, photography and text, will divulge and scrutinize the manifold world of entertainment and popular culture. Entertainment Island in its entirety will be launched in 2010. The event will also include seminars by international guest speakers. Other activities include workshops and discussions. Kiasma theatre hosts the project.

Entertainment Island 1 (2008)
An array of gestures, movements and sounds emanating from the entertainment industry are presented in this energetic performance unveiling the mechanisms of popular culture. Entertainment Island 1 has toured to several countries, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Romania.

“We spent weeks doing funny walks and telling bad jokes while pulling out false limbs and making funny faces. The pretend stuttering was the final straw. We were stuck and not the least funny.  We had to face what we knew from the start: we are not entertainers. We do not deal in entertainment. We deal in structures. We changed track. We proceeded jumping up and down shouting Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! We had finally arrived at the core of popular culture.

Performed and devised by: Timo Fredriksson (FIN), Anna Krzystek (UK), Annika Tudeer (FIN). Lights: Heikki Paasonen/Liisa Kyröseppä. Sound: Juuso Voltti. Co commission: Kiasma Theatre, CCA- Glasgow, UK.

On Oblivia
Founded in 2000 in Helsinki, the international performance company Oblivia is a unique force on the Finnish performance scene. Oblivias collectively devised, interdisciplinary and minimalist performances merge the boundaries of art forms and nationalities. The background of Oblivias members from Finland, Iceland and UK are in performance art, music, dance and theory. This mixture of backgrounds and nationalities creates a vibrant tension and humour in the work. From the beginning the core members have been working together creating a common performance language. Guest collaborators are invited to partake in individual projects. Oblivia is house artist at Kiasma Theatre and part of the Produforum network.

www.oblivia.fi
info@oblivia.fi Produform.Tölög.51 b.00250 Helsinki. Finland.

Seminar – (made up and let down), November 3rd 2009

(made up and let down) will form a seminar at the Nordic House, November 3rd,  as a part of the Sequences Lecture Series with a dinner event afterwards. The seminar will be an afternoon with screenings of the artist’s films, a talk by Dr. Halldór Björn Runólfsson (Director of National Gallery of Iceland) titled ‘From Frankenstein to the Romantic Woman’, and talks by the artists on the following topics: ‘Reverie as a secret window’,Performance/Sculpture/Image’, ‘experiments in time’, ‘The Power of Costume’ and ’Sequence of Death’. Participating artists are Sofia Dahlgren (SWE), Line Ellegaard (DK), Pernille Leggat Ramfelt (NO), Malin Ståhl (SWE) and Anita Wernström (SWE).

The dinner is free and on a ‘first come first serve’ basis but guests need to RSVP to info@losthorse.is beforehand.