Performance: Nýló Choir & Adam Buffington

18.10.2025

–18.10.2025

15:00

–16:00

The Nýló Choir, founded in 2003 by legendary artist Magnús Pálsson, is known for its experimental approach to voice and movement. Joining the choir are composer and musicologist Adam Buffington and performance artists Gígja Jónsdóttir and Tristan Elísabeta Birta. For this project, Pálsson contributes costume design for the choir, while visual artist duo Tara & Silla contribute costumes echoing Pálsson’s design for Jónsdóttir and Birta. Visual artist Þórunn Dís Halldórsdóttir contributes her introspective, body-centered video practice to the project. 

Through the exploration of glacial physical movement, disquieting sounds and prolonged silences, Threshold, then Eraser interrogates the underlying anxieties of contemporary life in order to discover the possibility of renewal through human connection. Such anxieties are embodied by the gestures of performers Gígja Jónsdóttir and Tristan Elísabet Birta, their inner turmoil made manifest in the division of a torn duvet, the confinement of a corrugated iron mask, and the nebulous chants of the Nýló Choir.