In his performance “Wunderkammer”, Henrik Koppen explores the format of a cabinet of curiosities as a storytelling technique, and an attempt of making sense of the world, while still leaving space for wonder. Cabinets of curiosities gained popularity in the renaissance and age of enlightenment as collections of odd objects, natural rarities, and man made artifacts.

Koppen's works often take the form of poetic rituals where he combine elements from religion, mythology, history and science. Through his performance art practice he sees to explore our relationship to our environments and the materiality of the world, questioning the narrates and conventions that shape our reality. Lately, his works have been exploring alchemy and our innate need for miracles from a queer perspective.

“ Here I belong” is a video art installation that displays themes of rooting, resilience, and belonging in a new environment. The piece stands as a tribute to Iceland's immigrant community, honoring their journey and the strength it takes to create a new home.

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Yuliana Palacios is a dancer and choreographer from Mexico who has been based in Iceland since 2016. She is the founder of Boreal Screendance Festival in Akureyri. Among her main objects is to present international cooperation between artists and promote international cooperation, transcending borders and cultural norms. Yuliana is currently educated at the MA program in Performing Arts at Iceland University of the Arts, graduating this spring 2025.

PMDD is a struggle. I need an escape from it. I find that escape in the calming realms of easy-listening music but somehow the music just adds to the surreality of the disorder.

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Eygló Höskuldsdóttir Viborg is a Reykjavík based composer and performance artist known for her innovative hybrid of music and performance art. Her way into the world of performance art was through sound design and compositions for theater, and has evolved so that she performances, writes and creates work independently and in collaborations with others. Eygló approaches her material through the lens of music but her work has a contact surface to both theater and fine art.

Eygló Has been an active member in the world of theater. She wrote them usic for the children's play, Hvíta Tígrisdýr, which was staged in Borgarleichúsið (Reykjavík city theater), and got praised for her mysterious and thought-provoking music. As Alter Eygló she developed an alter ego who writes an performances original karaoke music, which she has made a show around. She was a goes on the radio show on RÚV, where she spoke about her music and career.

Eygló earned her Bachelor of Music degree in Composition from Berklee College of Music in 2017. Just a year later, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, which enabled her to pursue a Master of Music in Concert Music Composition at New York University, where she studied under the mentorship of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe and acclaimed composer Robert Honstein. She completed her M.Mus in June 2020. Eygló will receive a Master of Arts degree in performance art from Iceland University of the Arts.

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Gosia Trajkowska is a performer, visual artist, songwriter, and theater director who tries in collaborative duos. Together with Vera Popova, she has directed performances such as CRIMEA, Pink Bitterness Princesses, How To Disappear Completely, Dream Institution, How To Do Things Together, and the three-episode podcast Beethoven Was a Lesbian. Alongside Agata Lech, she co-directed and created two poetry films: A Year Without Summer and Ballad for Balconies.Her practice spans performance, visual arts, and fiction, exploring the potential and limits of language and limits of language and limits of potential and rights.

A graduate of Visual Arts at the Academy of Art in Szczecin, she is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Performing Arts at the Iceland University of the Arts.

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Staged reference work, a performance that is not ready Yet it's time and I'm not at all sure it's the right time now.

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Aðalheiður has worked with visual forms, performances and text production. She creates word forms based on her reading blindness and published the word game Orðu.
Her work is at once a societal review, interweaving unwritten rules with the commonwealth Her first public lecture was on what was missing masculine textbooks in history In her philosophical studies, she was recognized for an innovative project on health care waiting lists priorities that had not been studied before then. After working twenty years in change management and analysis, it was time to change direction. But then life unexpectedly took a different direction that needs to be discussed.

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I am an actor, director and a teacher from Greenland. I've been acting since childhood, become a teacher and later started directing. I also hold various workshops, such as drama and Greenlandic maskdance. Through arts, I strive to create a space that functions as a mirror of our society's reality - unmasking reality. Create a space for a meaningful conversations that means to build university in diversity.