Residency events and activities

Welcome Tara and Silla

Skaftfell is thrilled to welcome the artist duo Tara and Silla to the residency program. Tara Njála Ingvarsdóttir (b.1996) and Silfrun Una Guðlaugsdóttir (b.1996) are the performance artist-duo Tara and Silla. They have been shining their boots and working together since they first started working together in the BA Visual Arts department of the Iceland University of the Arts which they graduated from in the spring of 2020. Tara and Silla live and work in Reykjavik. In their practice and work, playfulness, communication and friendship are their guiding light in making performances, installations, and videoworks. At Skaftfell they will be […]

Welcome Heejoon June Yoon

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Skaftfell warmly welcomes Heejoon June Yoon artist in residence for the month of January. Heejoon June Yoon is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work aims to uncover the ecology of absurdity and abnormal settings within the contemporary society through audiovisual making. Yoon’s recent work focuses on the interplay between body, form and shape in relation to semiotic theory. Inspired by how media technologies provide a new way of perception and communication, and a lot of miscommunications, she is making a series of landscapes and portraits of unknown lumps with A.I., collecting the machine’s algorithmic interpretation of her human-hand-drawings. She […]