Real-time Art Festival
The PPPTPC Institute is open in the old sales tower in Mæðragarðurinn (the Mothers garden) in Lækjargata between MR and Miðbæjarskólinn( The downtown elementary school)Photographs by Ingvar Högni Ragnarsson from Friday the 30th of oktober are on the Sequences 09 Flikr account. More photos will be published to day and to morrow.
Link to Sequences flikr photos : http://www.flickr.com/photos/44345700@N03/
15.00 Imagined Death, performance by Anita Wernstrom (SE) 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. http://www.anitawernstrom.com/ Lost Horse gallery, Vitastigur 9a, 101 Reykjavik
17.00 Video Screening Event: Vitaskuld, Auðvitað! by Icelandic Love Corporation (IS) An edited video version of a live event that The Icelandic Love Corporation made for the project Stray Beacons at Reykjavik Art Festival in 2009. The work was performed at a live event the 17th May 2009 along with brass band Svanurinn at Garðskagi-lighthouse in Reykjanes Peninsula. Regnboginn Cinema, Hverfisgata 54, 101 Reykjavík
17.00 Video Screening Event: videos by Curver Thoroddsen (IS) Four New York Minutes, 2009 Duration: 4:30 A collection of one-minute video performances made in New York spring 2009. Ode to An Ode, 2009 Duration: 3:11 An homage to the legendary 1992 video piece “Ode” by Finnbogi Pétursson. The work was commissioned by the Icelandic DVD-magazine Rafskinna and released for Issue #3 “Endurskoðun/Reflections”. http://www.ghostigital.com/ Regnboginn Cinema, Hverfisgata 54, 101 Reykjavík
17.00 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. Each artist was only told the last frame of the preceding action and hence a story unfolded in and of its own making. Regnboginn Cinema, Hverfisgata 54, 101 Reykjavík
17.00 Video Screen Event: Sirkus by Bjarni massi (IS) made in collaboration with Kling & bang gallery. Duration: 30 min Film about when Kling & bang re-erected Sirkus at the Frieze Art Fair in 2008. 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. Regnboginn Cinema, Hverfisgata 54, 101 Reykjavík 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 http://www.pernille-leggat-ramfelt.net/ Lost Horse gallery, Vitastigur 9a, 101 Reykjavik
20.00 The Mind, performance by Egill Sæbjörnsson (IS) and Marcia Moraes (BR) The mind can be anything. It can be a wind in the air. It can be words appearing in the room with a video projection, it can be shown in a conversation. It can be talked about in a scientific way. In the play we can jump from 1st to 3rd to 2nd person and so forth. We blend things from Theater and visual arts and music and ideas that we have heard or read in books etc. http://www.egills.de/ Reykjavik Art Museum, Hafnarhus, Tryggvagata 17, 101 Reykjavík
http://www.icelandtrain.com Icelandtrain is the first train enterprise of Iceland. The creation of Icelandtrain is a major achievement for Icelandic transportation systems and stands as a great step in Icelandic history.
After decades of debates revolving around the crucial question of creating a railway in Iceland, we are very honored to announce you the launching of Icelandtrain, a significant trail towards a new technological pride of Iceland.
In the dramatic context shaking our economy and the society of our dear Iceland, we have decided that every new project should be done TOGETHER.
To celebrate the launching of Icelandtrain, the first train enterprise in Iceland, and the construction of the first railway between Keflavik Airport and BSI in Reykjavik, we decided to give to everyone a chance to join the adventure.
HELP US TO BUILD THE FIRST RAILWAY IN ICELAND!
A simple visit in our application on www.icelandtrain.com will give everyone the possibility of creating a new rail track on the Keflavik-Reykjavik line, which will then bear his/her name.
WWW.ICELANDTRAIN.COM
15.00- 19.00 (made up and let down), seminar with artists Anita Wernstrom (SE), Line Ellegaard (DK), Malin Stahl (SE), Pernille Leggat Ramfelt (NO) & Sofia Dahlgren (SE) and lecture by Dr. Halldór Björn Runófsson (IS) The Nordic House, Sturlugötu 5 – 101 Reykjavík Sofia Dahlgren Sofia Dahlgren’s work pictures landscapes in relation to imagination, dreams and reality. She uses the idea of the landscape as a metaphor relating to emotional and psychological states of mind. The relationship between the mind and our perception of the world is something she continues to explore. www.sofiadahlgren.com Line Ellegaard I-projector is the title of a new work by Line Ellegaard. The work expands on previous works where ideas of transformation, appearance and disappearance were continually tested through disguises and interventions. Reflecting on the projection of film the artist projects a beam of light from between her legs thus becoming a projector. http://www.lineellegaard.dk/ Pernille Leggat Ramfelt 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 Malin Ståhl Malin Ståhl is presenting We Didn’t Say No / movingthelandscape / Dream of a Dream / Crying for Gene, a group of individual video works presented together providing a visual cross feed, the images stretch across the screens and support and detract from one another. www.malinstahl.se Anita Wernström 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
20.00-23.00 Dinner with screening, music and performances. Catering by Dill Restaurant. Guests need to book beforehand at info@losthorse.is The Nordic House, Sturlugötu 5 – 101 Reykjavík
