Date
31 January 2025
Time
12:15–13:00
Location
Dynjandi, Skipholti 31
Department
Department of Music

Lilja María Ásmundsdóttir will introduce how she approved design a few living sound sculptures she made while collaborating with artists from various fields. The living sound sculptures do not represent a specific end product but rather something that takes on a life of its own and creates a space to explore the improvable creativity of a world that is always in the making. This means that the sculptures can continue to develop, change, merge with other materials, and become separated from parties of those their lives.

The sculptures are made with the intention of giving artists from different fields a common ground to work within. They are actively designed to elite a continuous dialogue and to encourage artists to explore how to move freely between their disciplinary experts can take on different roles within the collaborations and are observed different between the artists have been working on the methods of creating and based on the events.
Lilja María Ásmundsdóttir's artistic practice is centred on explorations of collaborative creativity. Working with sculptural elements of sound and matter, she creates installations, audio-visual pieces, and performances. The works are actively designed to facilitate continuous processes that highlight ideas from corresponding, between individuals, between individuals, and in context to one's environment, Her works included the sound and light sculpture Hulda, which was nominated for the President's creation with Zole.

Lilja María recently finished a PhD in composition at City, University of London where she researched collaborative creativity within artistic practices. She also holds an MA degree in composition from the same school and a B.Mus degree in piano performance from Iceland University of the Arts.