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FOR AS LONG AS MOUNTAINS DANCE // Linda Boļšakova
Iceland University of the Arts
Graduation Festival 2026
MA in Performing Arts
No registration, people can just come.
Is it possible to dance with the geological? If we consider dance to be the movement of material embodiments, aren’t we already dancing? These questions are especially pertinent as we move into the era of the Anthropocene, where human actants are part of geologic processes. This work grinds on the clear-cut distinction between the sculptural and the performative, dissolving boundaries into intra-active relationality. The work is a speculative warm-up exercise for this dance, which takes place across times and rhythms larger than our single lifetime. It is both an impossibility and what we’re already part of. The work unfolds as a durational, participatory performative space in which human and geological bodies co-create with one another, inviting audiences into an embodied engagement with geological time. The performance has grown out of embodied engagement with Icelandic geothermal sites. We invite you to entangle in these warm material intimacies and ongoing thermodynamic reincarnations.
Linda Boļšakova: I am an interdisciplinary, research-based artist working with installation and performance. I work with relationality as the essential structure of being and imagine futures of more sustainable coexistence. Acknowledging the vibrancy and equality of material embodiments, be they human or more-than-human, the developed work is often sculptural, but it is a sculpture that is attuned to the changing nature of things; sculpture that is, in this sense, always a performance. My work has been presented at the Latvian National Museum of Art (2023) and Kunsthalle Bratislava (2023), and has been shown in exhibitions and performance festivals in Latvia and internationally. I am currently involved in a four-year EU project with the New Theatre Institute of Latvia (Homo Novus festival) and Ķemeri National Park. My practice is informed by international residencies and collaborations with scientists, ecologists, and environmental researchers.
When:
February 5th
15:00-18:00
Durational performance. People can walk in and out of the space during these hours.
Where:
L221
LHÍ Laugarnesvegur 91
105 Reykjavík
Accessibility information:
This work is an engaged performance that invites audience members into close, embodied encounters, including physical contact. The engagement always remains optional and responsive.
Wheelchair accessible.
(There is a way to get to the space with an elevator + assisted doors)
Dancers:
Rebekka Gud
Cristina Agueda
Ólöf Ingólfsdóttir
Snædís Lilja Ingadóttir
Fragrance by Eeva-Liisa Puhakka.
Thanks to my supervisor Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir, my coursemates, Nanna Gunnarsdóttir, Jón Sigurður Gunnarsson, Anna Stina Eyjolfsdottir, Bergdis Julia Johannsdottir and Simon Schultz, for their open presence, experimentation and feedback. Thanks to my teachers Saga Kjerulf Sigurdardottir, Angela Snæfellsjökuls Rawlings, Saana Lavaste and Hrefna Lind Lárusdóttir. Thanks to Aoife O’Brien for her singing tuition. My gratitude goes to everyone who has been part of the various iterations and transformations of this performance. This project would also not exist without Iceland. Its living geology has been an active participant, materially and imaginatively shaping the work.
