This Friday August 25, the web series ENDZEIT (The End of Time) by the siblings Anna & Jan Groos will be screened at the Skaftfell Residency, Austurvegur 42, 3rd floor at 21.00. The series consists of seven episodes with 15 to 20 minutes each and can be streamed on www.endzeit.at. Jan Groos (DE) is currently on residency at Skaftfell – Center for Visual Art. He studied art & film in the class of Harun Farocki at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In collaboration with his sister Anna Groos he works as independent filmmaker with a strong interest in theoretical discourse. […]
2017
Misguided Fieldwork
Join us at Seyðisfjörður Information Centre, Wednesday June 28, 16.00-18.00. The exhibition is also open Thursday June 29, 08.00-16.00. Misguided Fieldwork brings together works by Kristie MacDonald (CA) and Factory Workers Unite (DK). Two video works are inserted into the information monitors of the ferry waiting room to replace the tourist information with nonsensical gestures. The works are produced in response to the ongoing projects of the artists during their Skaftfell Residency. Artistic research the artists together have chosen to label Misguided Fieldwork. Factory Workers Unite works with questions of position within a social, political and aesthetic field of critical commentary […]