Friday, Sept 25 from 19:30 – 22.00 Bookshop-projectspace Seydisfjordur is an international gate. Campus Novel investigate the port town in East Iceland against a global paradigm of nodal locations. Fluxes of people, goods and information form the character of the place and allow it to stand as a point of reference for issues of connectivity, mobility, networks, systems of control, thresholds and crossings. The video installation Local / Focal / Fluctuant is an attempt to locate those features of a place constitutive of its particular identity as a point of passage. Campus Novel is an artist run group working between […]
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Seydisfjordur Suite
One night only ! Opening Tuesday September 16th from 6pm – 8pm at the Bookshop-projectspace Seyðisfjörður Suite is a series of nine drawings. These drawings, executed in lead, silver and chalk on vindpappa (a black windproof house wrap), were executed over a period of six weeks at Hóll, the Birgir Andrésson House in Seyðisfjörður. In fog, mist, or low-light situations, the mind compensates for missing visual information by patching holes with memory. Similarly, a drawing can evoke a place without picturing it. Seyðisfjörður Suite is a series of impressions and evocations remembering a place that no longer exists. I draw […]