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In this lecture I will talk about selected past works and the threads of thought that shaped it. My work reflections on perceptions of femininities and human animals' relationships with non-human animals. I take a performative approach, incorporating my body and drawing on my personal experiences for material. My practice also displays specific cultural influences and familial heritage. Archetypes and influences from visual culture or fairy tale stories to film. appear as memories in my work.
Tristan Elizabeth Publish (they/them, b. 1991) is a performance and visual artist working across performance, film, and installation. Tristans work engines with complex and multifaceted topics such as identity, gender and inter-spieces relationships through visual acts infused with a sense of playfulness and a touch of the fantastic.
Tristan holds an MFA from Malmö Art Academy (2021) and BA degrees in Fine Art (2017) and Contemporary Dance (2013) from the Iceland University of the Arts. They were a participant at Maumaus ISP 2025. Recent projects include exhibitions and performances at Ásmundasalur (2025), MAS Box (Antwerp, 2025), Kling & Bang (Reykjavík, 2022) and Inter Pblc (Copenhagen, 2021). In 2023, they were nominated for the Icelandic Art Prize. Tristan products music under the Alias Angel.
This is the second lecture in a lecture series held each semester at the Department of Fine Arts at IUA. In seven lectures during the semester, experts in the field of visual art discuss their own research, experiments, and artistic practice.
The lecture will take place in the lecture hall at IUA Laugarnes, Laugarnesvegur 91, 105 Reykjavík and is open across departments and to the public.
Language: English.