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:

Víðsýni

PERFORMANCE 24.11.2018 | 18:00 | Tjarnarborg Cultural House (Aðalgata 13)

director: MARA BLOME(LV)

poet: INGI JOHANNESSON (IS)

sound artist: GEOFF GERSH(USA)

light artist: JONATHAN SIMS (USA)

 

 

In Ólafsfjörður for Moving Lights programm Māra Blome will make performance “Víðsýni” about retired pilot, his love for flying and love for his wife. Theatre piece is inspired by personal pilot stories about their passion for flying, risk taking and their life. It will be collaborations piece with Geoff Gesh sound compositions, Jotahtan Sims light art and Ingi Johannesson poetry.

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Māra Blome is latvian theatre director, what works with multimedial. She has vocational education in Drama, Valmieras State Gymnasium. After she took her BA in New Media arts, Liepajas University. During BA she participated in MPLab (Art Research Laboratory) and RIXC (The Center for New Media Culture) exhibitions with her student works. After graduation she worked as a photographer and photoshop artist and assisted on different film production sets. Māra connected both educations and did her MA as a theater director in Latvian Academy of Culture, Rīga. She have participated in PLETA (Platform European heater Academy) projects in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Finland as a performer and director.