Moving Lights

What is "Moving Lights" residency program?

It refers not only to the Northern Lights that occurs during this special time of the year. It also refers to the changing seasons with more and less daylight. Light is moving and changing, from night to day, from summer to winter. Light changes in colours and in intensity, from a light glow to a shining bright light. We can also switch light on and off with one touch. Light is always moving, light leaves traces...

So during this special time we are looking for artists who work with light or who use light, natural light and of course electric light, as the main topic of their work. Or maybe you are just inspired by the theme and want to break through the darkness and bring us your light.

It does not matter if you create lightsculptures or if you are a (light-painting-) photographer, dancer, singer, musician, poet, or installation artist. Whether you want to move light or the light moves you, we are curious about your application.

Listhús in Ólafsfjörður offers a special countryside and environment to create such great and unique possibilities to work, all nearby, e.g. beach, harbour, factories, lonely valleys and lakes.

​If you ever want to work with light, do it in Ólafsfjörður now, or never...

 

Residency period: 01/11/18 to 12/12/18

Idea: Anno Weihs (Germany)

Program manager: Teresa Cheung Siu Hung (HK, China)

​Intern: Mara Blome (Latvia) | ​theatre director

 

Participating artists:
Emily Sides​ (USA) | visual artist
Geoffrey Gersh​ (USA) | composer & musician 
Jonathan Sims​ (USA) | new media art artists
Nils Karlson​ (Germany) | photographer

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The interview with Trolli FM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Program posts:

SOLO GUITAR

 

7. 12.18 | 19:00 | Pálshús (Strandgata 4)

composer/guitarist: GEOFF GERSH(USA)

visuals: JONATHAN SIMS (USA)

 

 

 

Geoff Gersh will perform solo ambient guitar compositions that have been inspired by the landscapes he’s been immersed in during his time here.

 

Geoff Gersh explores the sonic boundaries of the electric guitar with and without the aid of electronic devices and found objects to produce sounds one would normally not associate with the guitar. He performs live music to silent films monthly in NYC with his bands Black Lodge & Reel Orchestrette and leads the bowed guitar ensemble FYRN,where the instruments are bowed with metal files and metal bars, creating dense and hauntingly beautiful, decaying sonic ambient landscapes that engulf the audience as the ensemble sets up in a large circle around them. They recently performed a new composition, Dark Morning, in an old 8,000 sq. ft. warehouse at the Garner Arts Center. Geoff has 3 CDs on Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening Label as well as a number of self released titles. He has received grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Meet the Composer, American Music Center, Creative Connections Arts Fund at the Vermont Community Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and has participated in the Banff Early Fall Musicians in Residence (Andres Segovia Memorial Endowment) and Listhus Moving Lights Residency in Olafsfjordur, Iceland. 

 

More about Geoff:

ambientfields.com

fyrnensemble.com