Skaftfell is hosting a three day symposium and dialogue platform focusing on the intersection of visual art and ecological issues in Iceland as a part of the project Frontiers in Retreat. We will ask: What are the particularities of ecosystems, environment, community, and daily life in Iceland? How do artists engage with these issues and what is their contribution to this discourse? What opportunities and challenges are in store for local ecologies and how can we adjust to them? The symposium will offer lectures on nature, geography and human existence, the interplay of visual art and ecology, environmental issues and […]
