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TRIPTYCON LungA school installation

TRIPTYCON LungA school installation

This Sunday on the 24th of March the LungA school is opening an installation in the Skaftfell gallery. The installation is a part of the final exhibition of the Lunga School art program taking place in three different locations. It will start with a gathering in the Skaftfell gallery at 12:00 where a large scale collective installation will open the ball with bell. The collective installation is a gesture to bring together the praxises of the LungA School art program spring 2024. Two longs arms will stretch through the space imitating a vessel or container for works that are hovering […]

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María Sjöfn, AiR ´23: Field notes

María Sjöfn, AiR ´23: Field notes

Artist Maria Sjöfn Dupuis Laufeyjardóttir´s two-month residency at Skaftfell was devoted to studying the marine animals that live in  Seyðisfjördur. Her research was in response to a recently published report on the impact of sea fish faring on the ecosystem of the fjord: Rannsóknir á lífríki Seyðisfjarðar: [Botndýr, mælingar í seti, fuglar og þörungar í fjöru (Research on the biosphere of Seyðisfjörður). Erlín E. Jóhannsdóttir, Halldór Walter Stefánsson og Cristian Gallo (2018).Náttúrustofa Austurlands, Neskaupstað. (https://rafhladan.is/handle/10802/29364)].  Among the many findings of the report is an assessment of the great abundance and variety of benthic species and subspecies living in the fjord. […]

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