Skemmdegi 2015-16

25 Artists from all over the world.

3 months during winter in Ólafsfjörður ,North Iceland.

1 month of showcase from 28 January - 21 February 2016.

 

Listhus Artspace is proud to present Skammdegi Festival 2016, an annual festival of music, visual arts and mixed media created by international artists. A total of 25 artists were selected from 71 applications from all over the world. The Festival is in its second year, and aims to bring innovative works to local Icelandic and international audience.

 

You are cordially invited to the opening group exhibition on 28 January 2016, Thursday, 7pm at Listhus Gallery, Ólafsfjörður ,North Iceland. 11 of the participating artists will be showcasing their works during the opening exhibition.

 

Festival Highlights

 

The Key Man

Banana Effect, a theatre group from Hong Kong, presents The Key Man, an Immersive Game Theatre combining shadow puppet elements on 29 January 2016, Friday, 7pm at Menningarhús Tjarnarborg, Ólafsfjörður ,North Iceland . There will be participation from the local students who have participated in the workshops prior to the performance as well.

 

Open House

There will be a guided tour on 14 February 2016, Sunday, to selected houses of locals living in Ólafsfjörður in which visitors will have a sneak peak at the art collections and their own artworks.

 

Music Soup

During the closing of the Festival on 21 February 2016, Sunday, there will be an informal concert, in which anyone is welcomed to join and perform music, inspired by the dark winter.

Skammdegi 15-16 Poster

Participating Artists​

                On Yin Cha, King Ho Wong, On Lap Chan 

                Jamie Scott Gordon (Edinburgh, Scotland) | actor/director

                Alkisti Terzi  (Greek) | photographer

  • Judy b  (San Francisco, USA) | writer and audio book producer

  • Ksenia Yurkova  (St. Petersburg, Russia) | cinematographer

  • NKS (Canada) | visual artist: Natalia Kalicki, Samuel Cousin

  • Noemi Niederhauser (London, UK/Switzerland) | visual artist

  • Rachel Beetz  (California,  USA) | musician

  • Ruan Suess (Scotland) | cinematographer
  • Safiah Sulaiman (Singapore) | visual & performance/ festival management ​​

  • Scott Probst (New South Wales, Australia) | writer and visual artist

  • Will Plowman (Bristol, UK) | musician

Programs

The wandering parade

a loop video by Noemi Niederhauser

21. 02. 2016 | 18:00 | Menningarhús Tjarnarborg

 

The wandering parade involves an immersion into one of Iceland's remote town: Olafsfjordur. With an economy mainly based on fish and its various process of transformation, this small town appears to oscillate in between gazing high up at snowy surrounding summits or deep down at the underwater world from which it largely sustains itself.

 

The project results in the collecting, splitting and fastening of hidden scenes without any possibility of a final enclosing narrative but instead an unceasing activity of unmaking and remaking. It results in the staging of gestures, movements, actions and rhythms with an endless confiscation of their point of arrival and significance. A play with inflections and differences, images erased even as they are built up, elements twisted and turned into sounds or furtive images, in and out of unexpected stormy shapes that are endlessly spinning and weaving back and forth. Leaving the certainty of any appearance nebulous, The wandering parade creates an ungraspable testimony around this remote fishing town glimpsed at through its dark winter. Here, wind, ice and falling snow endlessly shield traces, stretch out smells and silence sounds.