Eliso Tsintsabadze (GE) and Pavel Filkov (RU) have been artists-in-residency at Skaftfell in March and April. Their work explores human relations to landscape through photography, and studies the medium of photography itself and its desire to document. In their current collaborative project about forestry in Iceland they are developing a visual study of a minimalistic landscape getting filled with trees. In the open studio Pavel and Eliso will show works in progress, as well as a variety of analogue photographic techniques and devices, including stereo cameras, stereoscopes, a pop-up darkroom, and more. Later in the month the artists will invite students from Seyðisfjarðarskóli for […]
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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 […]