Interns are expected to commit to at least 6-8 weeks of work within the museum. Hours will be determined in dialogue with museum staff and in correspondence with individual educational needs, but can be expected to take place between the hours of 1-6 pm. Occasional extra hours for events, exhibition installation and so forth may be required.

Please note that this is an unpaid internship, but in exchange for their time and commitment

Auður Lóa and Starkaður invite guests to an evening of cocktails at the Living Art Museum’s 40th anniversary exhibition, Pressure of the Deep. They will serve drinks that are in conversation with their work, Two halves that don’t add up.

Auður Lóa and Starkaður have worked together for six years as artists and curators. They make works, together, separately, with other artists and in various art places, work that tries to dig a hole into something intangible.

At 8:45 Edda Kristín will walk guests up to Kling & Bang, where Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir will discuss her current exhibition Evolvement, which opened on March 3, 2018, with visitors.

Both exhibitions close on March 11th, so this is the perfect opportunity to have deeper insight into the works in the exhibitions and to consider the artists´thoughts.

The talk will take place in Icelandic, is free of charge and open to all.

Distant matter brings together works by Katrín Agnes Klar (b.1985) and Lukas Kindermann (b.1984) for the first time to this extent at The Living Art Museum. By disconnecting and re-orientating impressions of matter through individual works, the exhibition takes transmitted information, 3D replicas from space, popsicle-coloured screensaver gradients and poster horizons as a means to ask basic questions of everyday representations and leap out into the orderly system of the cosmos.

Guests will have the opportunity to ask the artists about their work and gain inside view into the making of Distant Matter, the collaboration between the artists, curator and The Living Art Museum.

Writers and translators: Edith Södergran/Njörður P. Njarðvík, Friedrich Nietzsche/Arthúr Björgvin Bollason og Þröstur Ásmundsson, Undína, Sigfús Daðason, Guðbergur Bergsson, Thomas Mann/Gauti Kristmannsson, Kristján Árnason, Teresa frá Avíla/Birna Bjarnadóttir, Gunnar Gunnarsson, Kristín Ómarsdóttir, Dante Alighieri/Erlingur E. Halldórsson, Stefan Zweig/Halldór J. Jónsson og Ingólfur Pálmason, Guttormur J. Guttormsson.

Readers: Steingrímur Eyfjörð, Karlotta Blöndal, Haraldur Jónsson, Gauti Kristmannsson, Unnar Örn Auðarson.

Host: Birna Bjarnadóttir.

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The Living Art Museum in Breiðholt is located at 13-21 Völvufell, 111 Reykjavík.

“Ólafur Lárusson initially used photography as a recording device, a way of documenting his performance art – although on occasion photography was a more integral element of these performances or environments. His later involvement with photography has, however, effectively subverted this use of the medium.

Now, the photograph functions not as witness, but as the very space within – or upon – which the performance takes place”.
(Jan-Erik Lundström, European Photography, 1988)

Nýló is the central museum for performance in Iceland, as it has throughout its history been one of the main local venues for such work.

Reasons to Perform will occupy the Living Collection space until 10. December, where artists Gunndís Ýr Finnbogadóttir and Maja Bekan create a mix-media installation comprised of: site-specific space intervention, performance and text work with the aim of exploring and questioning the archive of the living art (museum) and documentation as a form of possibility.This new work developed by Finnbogadóttir and Bekan is based upon ongoing research and investigations into notions of time, appropriation, authorship and productivity.

Minutes of measurements, disturbance, rhythm and movement will be introduced into Nýló’s archive collection and performed by the museum staff and visitors during the opening hours of the exhibition.

The day invites the participating artists Shida Shahabi, Anna Sóley Tryggvadóttir and Hildur Hákonardóttir, alongside theorist and activist Silvia Federici and art historian Temi Odumosu to share their practices and find ways we can collectivise our strategies for insisting on the radical potential of homecraft.

Silvia Federici is an Italian American scholar, teacher, and activist from the radical autonomist feminist Marxist tradition. She is a professor emerita and Teaching Fellow at Hofstra University, where she was a social science professor. She is co-founder of the International Feminist Collective which led to the development of The International Wages for Housework Campaign a global social movement co-founded in 1972. Silvia Federici is a key influence to Konsthall C’s Home Works programme and her writing, teaching and political work inspired our research into the Women’s Day Off demonstrations in Iceland.

Dr Temi Odumosu is an art historian, creative educator, and postdoctoral researcher for the Living Archives Research Project at Malmö University. Her international research and curatorial practice is concerned with the visual politics of slavery and colonialism, Africa in the archives, Afro-Diaspora aesthetics, and more broadly exploring how art mediates cultural transformation and healing. Her upcoming book Africans in English Caricature 1769-1819: Black Jokes, White Humour will be published by Brepols in the summer of 2016.

The theatrical performance and the body is a powerful medium in Kristín’s works. In her practice she uses video, performance, photographs and installations and she is particularly interested in blurring the borders between these mediums. Kristín uses her own body within the performance but in recent pieces she has teamed up with other performers as could be seen in Kristín´s MA degree piece which was a durational performance called Sigh performed within the museum walls of Gerðar Museum in Kópavogur. Her pieces play on the border of human existence, the translated state of the human being within a particular environment and giving rise to the people, the audience questioning and triggering reaction.