Skaftfell welcomes residency artists: Kati Gausman, Richard Skelton and Ráðhildur Ingadóttir. The artists first stayed at Seyðisfjörður in September 2014 for one month and simultaneously launched their participation in Frontiers in Retreat. They have now arrived for the second residency period, May-June 2016. Kati Gausmann is a sculptor living and working in Berlin. Her work is concerned with movement, rhythm, and action as form-generating processes. In her artistic practice she combines the exploration of different materials and their qualities with acts of drawing, installation, and performance. Artistic expeditions and theoretical investigations are an important part of her working methodology. With the artist group msk7 and as a […]
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Lifeforce, A Soliloquy and 6 Poems
Like a steady moving creek, life passes patiently with or without us. Lifeforce juxtaposes an out of focus image of a large boulder violently battered by cresting waves with fragmented pieces of snowy ice sheets being carried out to sea. Both films reflect spectacular rushes of energy by dilating the invisible wind force through the spatial transmutation of earth and water. A Soliloquy revitalizes and honors the Icelandic landscape in its purest form. Here we see “a scientist” moving through various stately scenes with a metal detector in hand searching for a material something. Through this ambit of visual poetry […]