Schedule:
12:45
Opening on the Red Square
13:00 - 13:45
SUND - innsýn í ferli
- Birnir Jón Sigurðsson / Room L142
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The Art of Social Practice: Skills for Making Multi-Disciplinary Work in Community
- Mary Bitel / Room L193
14:00 - 14:45
Samstarf við Þjóðleikhúsið - Taktu flugið, beibí!
- Kolbrún Dögg Kristjánsdóttir & Ilmur Stefánsdóttir / Black Box L223
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Embodiment Toolbox (Workshop)
- Felix Urbina Alejandre / Room L220
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Art + Rural: an introduction to artist-led rural rejuvenation
- Greta Clough / Room - Finland
15:00 - 15:45
Why we bow: self-awareness for social justice
- Gréta Kristín Ómarsdóttir / Room L142
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Sentience, Sentences, & Sentiment: Sensing Deep-Ocean Sediment through Artistic Practice
- Dr. Angela Rawlings and José Luis Anderson / Room L193
16:00 - 16:45
Bodies without Borders: Queerly Performing Israeli Citizenship
- Dr. Yarden Stern, key-note lecturer / Black Box L223
17:00
Toast on the Red Square!
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SUND - innsýn í ferli
- Birnir Jón Sigurðsson
- 13:00-13:45 I Room L142
Í fyrirlestri sínum fer Birnir Jón Sigurðsson yfir sköpunarferli sýningarinnar SUND sem er um þessar mundir til sýninga í Tjarnarbíói. Hann segir frá hvernig hugmyndin um verk þar sem leikmynd er í aðalhlutverki kviknaði og skipulagi æfinga sem miðuðu að því að skapa inn í heim sundlaugarinnar. Hann reifar kosti og galla samsköpunarferlisins, kenningar um mikilvægi æfinga í rými og galdrana og áskoranirnar sem felast í því að gera allt í belg og biðu í stað línulegrar sköpunar.
*The lecture will be held in Icelandic.
Birnir Jón Sigurðsson er sviðshöfundur, leikskáld og leikstjóri. Síðan hann útskrifaðist frá sviðshöfundabraut LHÍ 2019 hefur hann lagt áherslu á frumsköpun á sviði, ferli og tilraunamennsku. Hann er hluti samsköpunarleikhópanna CGFC og Ást og karókí sem settu upp verkin Kartöflur (tilnefnt sem leikrit ársins á Grímunni 2020) og Skattsvik Development Group. Hann skrifaði og framleiddi barnaóperuna Fuglabjargið 2021 og hefur skrifaði styttri verk fyrir útvarp og svið. Hann er starfandi leikskáld Borgarleikhússins og stofnandi Tóma rýmisins sem er vettvangur fyrir æfingar og tilraunir í sviðslistum.
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The Art of Social Practice: Skills for Making Multi-Disciplinary Work in Community
- Mary Bitel
- 13:00-13:45 I Room L193
My lecture will focus on concepts and skills that are fundamental to entering into and engaging communities in a creative process of individual and collective meaning: identifying a composition/community with which to build a project; identifying the need and purpose for a group project before facilitating a group through its stages of group development; conflict exploration and collective, creative problem solving; building a system of mutual aid and the role that empathy plays in the building of creative projects; balancing the need for inclusive group process with the need for timely task completion and producing creative work of artistic merit while supporting development of a productive group experience.
*The lecture will be held in English.
Dr. Bitel is an Associate Arts Professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she created and launched the Collaborative Arts BFA, a multi- and interdisciplinary program for undergraduate arts students. She is Associate Director of NYU’s International Theatre Workshop, Amsterdam, a Co-Director of Arts & Health @ NYU, and Director of the Tisch Arts & Health Project. Dr. Bitel teaches courses in advanced acting, Shakespeare, and the integration of multi-disciplinary art forms with community-based arts practice. She produces and facilitates community collaborations between Tisch arts students and local public-school children and is a consulting editor for the journal Social Work with Groups. Dr. Bitel is a licensed clinical social worker, a member of the professional stage actors’ union – Actors Equity Association, and the International Association of Social Work with Groups.
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Þjóðleikhúsið - Taktu flugið, beibí!
- Kolbrún Dögg Kristjánsdóttir og Ilmur Stefánsdóttir
- 14:00-14:45 I Black Box L223
Kolbrún Dögg flytur valda kafla úr verkinu Taktu Flugið Beibí sem fjallar um lífshlaup Kolbrúnar. Verkið verður sett upp haust 2024 í Þjóðleikhúsinu og mun hún leika sig í sýningunni. Stúlka með stóra framtíðardrauma áttar sig á því að eitthvað er að koma fyrir hana, líkami hennar missir smátt og smátt máttin og hún þarf að takast á við miklar áskoranir til að láta drauma sína rætast. Kolbrún og Ilmur segja stuttlega frá fyrirhugaðri uppfærslu verksins í Þjóðleikhúsinu og svara spurningum.
*The lecture will be held in Icelandic.
Kolbrún Dögg er útskrifuð af Sviðshöfundabraut LHí og stundar um þessar mundir nám við ritlist í Háskóla Íslands sem hún hyggst ljúka vor 2024. Hún hefur tekið þátt í fjölda gjörninga og uppistands viðburðum. Taktu Flugið Beibí er fyrsta verk Kolbrúnar sem Þjóðleikhúsið kaupir af henni og verður sett upp haust 2024. Ilmur útskrifaðist sem myndlistarkona frá MHÍ og lauk Mastersgráðu í Myndlist frá Goldsmiths College. Hún hefur sýnt myndlist sína og gert fjölda gjörninga hérlendis og erlendis. Hún hefur starfað í leikhúsi um áratuga skeið og er nú starfandi Leikmyndahöfundur og Listrænn stjórnandi við Þjóðleikhúsið.
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Embodiment Toolbox
- Felix Urbina Alejandre
- 14:00-14:45 I Room L220
"Embodiment toolbox" is a workshop aimed to share different creative approaches towards the exploration of movement and performativity.
In the workshop we will explore Imagery, free association and somatic exploration focusing on the activitation of your personal physical imaginary archive.
The main goal is to invite the participants to find useful techniques to tap on their free flow of imagination , ground it in the body and find ways to bring it into movement/performativity.
The strategies explored in this workshop in are part of an ongoing choreographic/performative practice focused on images, and "sensorial intuition" as a creative generator.
*Please bring comfortable/training clothes, a notebook and writing material.
*Max 15 participants.
*The workshop will be held in English.
Felix Urbina Alejandre is a Mexican dancer and performer.
He completed his dance education at SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance), and has been a member of Iceland Dance Company since 2018.
From 2017 to 2018 he was also part of SEAD Bodhi Project, performing in different venues and festivals worldwide.
Felix actively collaborates in different artistic projects in Iceland and abroad, and has facilitated different workshops all throughout his career.
As an artist he grounds his practice within a decolonial, queer and emancipatory perspective; his wish is to offer reflections regarding imagination, embodiment, and the radical political implications of the performing body.
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Art + Rural: an introduction to artist-led rural rejuvenation
- Greta Clough
- 14:00-14:45 I Room - Finland
Rural arts are a major area of interest to the European Union, whose policymakers understand that if art does indeed matter, it matters everywhere. Incorporating professional arts into rural rejuvenation strategies leads to sustainable growth, fostering a symbiotic relationship between culture and economics. Rural areas can undergo a renaissance that enhances their artistic ecosystem, positioning them prominently on the national and international arts map. The notion that arts and the countryside share an intertwined destiny is not an idealistic vision, but a compelling reality waiting to be fully embraced. Yet, the challenges loom large. This seminar addresses those challenges, highlighting opportunities for further growth.
*The lecture will be held in English.
Greta Clough is the artistic director of Handbendi Brúðuleikhús and the Hvammstangi International Puppetry Festival in Iceland. Greta is an award- winning international performer, director, and playwright. She is the former Associate Artist of Little Angel Theatre, and has over a decade of experience creating and touring original theatre productions around the world. She trained
as an actor and theatre creator in London where she worked in theatre, radio, and recorded media for many years before moving to Iceland. She is the president of UNIMA Iceland, the national centre for the international network of puppeteers.
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Sentience, Sentences, & Sentiment: Sensing Deep-Ocean Sediment through Artistic Practice
Sentience, Sentences, & Sentiment: Sensing Deep-Ocean Sediment through Artistic Practice explores ecological attunement and the role of language in perceiving the more-than-human—specifically the deep-ocean ecosystems facing potential carbon sequestration, ocean acidification, global heating, and eutrophication. The article unfolds an artist’s account of process for kór (core), a slow installation featuring a deep-ocean sediment core extracted between Greenland and Iceland during a 2021 science research cruise. In Icelandic, kór means choir or chorus; it is pronounced similarly to the English-language core. The article features video aboard the research vessel, conceptual documentation of the resulting artwork, participant interviews, and an aria composed by José Luis Anderson (Andervel) through the installation.
*The lecture will be held in English.
Dr. Angela Rawlings is a Canadian-Icelandic interdisciplinary artist-researcher who works with languages as dominant exploratory material. rawlings’ books include Wide slumber for lepidopterists (Coach House Books, 2006), Gibber (online, 2012), o w n (CUE BOOKS, 2015), si tu (MaMa Multimedijalni Institut, 2017), and Sound of Mull (Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, 2019). In 2022, rawlings co-curated SPHERE Festival for the Canadian National Arts Centre’s Orchestra in partnership with the Canadian Museum of Nature, Royal Danish Library, and Nordic Bridges. They teach at the Iceland University of the Arts.
Andervel is the music project of singer-songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist musician José Luis Anderson. Born and raised in Mexico, Anderson currently lives in Iceland. Anderson graduated with a bachelor's degree in classical singing in his native Mexico and later relocated to Iceland, where he completed a master's degree in Music and a second degree in New Media composition at the Icelandic University of the Arts (Listaháskólí Íslands). In recent years, Andervel has ventured into fields such as musical composition, film scoring, sound design, sound for art exhibitions, poetry, songwriting and visual media design. On the other hand, Andervel is a passionate advocate for international communities and minority representation.
