a day without an end

The road suggested by Einar Garibaldi, our guide for the daytrip during workshop Reykjavík next week.

International Panotools Conference 2010

The University of Plymouth will be hosting the Annual Panotools Conference in 2010. The Panotools group, which consists of members based throughout Europe, Canada, America and Japan meet on an annual basis to discuss and showcase their latest work using Panotools-based software.

The conference will take place over a three day period in August and will include visits to ICCI's facilities and the university’s Immersive Vision Theatre and a tour of the local area. Further information about the Panotools Group can be found at: www.panotools-meeting.com

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THE LANDSCAPE IN OUR BODIES: EARTH, WATER, AIR, AND FIRE

a post graduate course in Iceland this summer

Where Nature meets Culture

The Svartarkot Centre for Research & Education,Iceland

www.svartarkot.is

Reykjavík journal from the New York Times today

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/world/europe/19iceland.html?hp

Ptarmigan Artist-in-Residency Programme

http://ptarmigan.fi/air

Residency in Helsinki, application deadline 15 May

Looking for the mythical beasts of Lithuania and finding some.

With or without you Bergen

"> In January 2010 I had an exhibition in the student gallery Kaffistofa that was titled “With or without you Bergen”. The exhibition involved a video performance that I did in relation to Edvard Grieg, the composer. When I didn't get the chance to see the Edvard Grieg museum in Bergen I decided to do my own version of it. Which involved a performance in the role of the museum director and a recreation of the museum itself. With this performance I contemplated what a place mediates, how we define it and experience it in our memories, in our imagination.

Also for this exhibition I showed a video of an oil station and played a sound piece which involves me walking up to people in Bergen and asking them the question: “What can you tell me about this place?” In this piece I work with the idea of Foucault’s heterotopia.

I continued with this performance in Vilnius and will also do in the other cities as well.

In Bergen I put postcards in random postboxes and got sent back 4 out of 10. For the exhibition I scanned them and printed out. They were in a rack in the exhibition space and people could take with them if they wanted. By doing so I kept the process continuous and open.

I got published an article about the exhibition and the project in an Icelandic newspaper, there I mention the project in general and the process: