HLAUPA is a 30 minute performance and an installation (video, metal, glass, tufted capets, running harnesses and running shoes). It talks about renewal, birth and death. Beginning and end. The self and social media staging. To look into the fire and have it swallow you, like melting glass or liquidy lava. To be a troll that becomes a stone on purpose and stops running. Five modern trolls tell the story of a stone that used to be alive and how they have to cope with the feeling of being observed.
Möira (56) Helena Kesskÿla
Loopy (45) Moa Holgersson
Lovisa (34) Vera Hjördís Matsdóttir
Helga (26) Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir
Ozzy (14) Ciara O’Kelly
Ears: Nell Schwan
Graphics: Studio Buy my talent
Photographer: Tom Janssen
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The works merge music and art, nature and man-made systems. Each sculpture is actually a character who lives in digital clouds and sings an aria to their surroundings. In fact, the ode is more about their inner longing and desire, which underscores man's unilateral relationship with his environment. The three sculptures each represent a man-made system that characterizes their location: Nature in the Botanical Garden, exercise and fitness outside of World Class, and transport on sea at Skarfaklett. With the work, Sigrún Gyða examines how human intervention is necessary for us in order to have a natural experience.
Part of a series of three works spread over the large outdoor exhibition area of Hjólið 2021.
This one was located in Skarfagarðar, close to Skarfaklettur and the Viðey Ferry Terminal, Reykjavík Iceland.
Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir (2021)
Composition and lyrics by Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir (apart from lyrics in 64.141764, -21.870164)
Lyrics in 64.141764, -21.870164 are by Árni Hjartarson
Sound Production and mastering by Jethro Cook
Voice by Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir and Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir.
Technical assistance by Sveinn Harðarsson, Sigurbjörn Ingvarsson, Vincent Mensink and Arnór Bogason
String players in opening performance:
Móeiður Una Ingimarsdóttir violin,
Anna Soffía Hauksdóttir violin,
Hafrún Birna Björnsdóttir viola,
& Jón Pétur Snæland cello
Curated by Sunna Ástþórsdóttir
Supported by Iceland Visual Art Found, the Reykjavík Sculptor Association and the City of Reykjavík.
Thanks to World Class Iceland, Faxaflóahafnir and Grasagarðurinn.
Photographer: Hörður Sveinsson
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The works merge music and art, nature and man-made systems. Each sculpture is actually a character who lives in digital clouds and sings an aria to their surroundings. In fact, the ode is more about their inner longing and desire, which underscores man's unilateral relationship with his environment. The three sculptures each represent a man-made system that characterizes their location: Nature in the Botanical Garden, exercise and fitness outside of World Class, and transport on sea at Skarfaklett. With the work, Sigrún Gyða examines how human intervention is necessary for us in order to have a natural experience.
Part of a series of three works spread over the large outdoor exhibition area of Hjólið 2021.
This one is located in front of World Class Laugar.
Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir (2021)
Composition and lyrics by Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir (apart from lyrics in 64.141764, -21.870164)
Lyrics in 64.141764, -21.870164 are by Árni Hjartarson
Sound Production and mastering by Jethro Cook
Voice by Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir and Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir.
Technical assistance by Sveinn Harðarsson, Sigurbjörn Ingvarsson, Vincent Mensink and Arnór Bogason
String players in opening performance:
Móeiður Una Ingimarsdóttir violin,
Anna Soffía Hauksdóttir violin,
Hafrún Birna Björnsdóttir viola,
& Jón Pétur Snæland cello
Curated by Sunna Ástþórsdóttir
Supported by Iceland Visual Art Found, the Reykjavík Sculptor Association and the City of Reykjavík.
Thanks to World Class Iceland, Faxaflóahafnir and Grasagarðurinn.
Photographer: Hörður Sveinsson
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The works merge music and art, nature and man-made systems. Each sculpture is actually a character who lives in digital clouds and sings an aria to their surroundings. In fact, the ode is more about their inner longing and desire, which underscores man's unilateral relationship with his environment. The three sculptures each represent a man-made system that characterizes their location: Nature in the Botanical Garden, exercise and fitness outside of World Class, and transport on sea at Skarfaklett. With the work, Sigrún Gyða examines how human intervention is necessary for us in order to have a natural experience.
Part of a series of three works spread over the large outdoor exhibition area of Hjólið 2021.
This one is located in Grasagarður Botanical Garden.
Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir (2021)
Composition and lyrics by Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir (apart from lyrics in 64.141764, -21.870164)
Lyrics in 64.141764, -21.870164 are by Árni Hjartarson
Sound Production and mastering by Jethro Cook
Voice by Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir and Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir.
Technical assistance by Sveinn Harðarsson, Sigurbjörn Ingvarsson, Vincent Mensink and Arnór Bogason
String players in opening performance:
Móeiður Una Ingimarsdóttir violin,
Anna Soffía Hauksdóttir violin,
Hafrún Birna Björnsdóttir viola,
& Jón Pétur Snæland cello
Curated by Sunna Ástþórsdóttir
Supported by Iceland Visual Art Found, the Reykjavík Sculptor Association and the City of Reykjavík.
Thanks to World Class Iceland, Faxaflóahafnir and Grasagarðurinn.
Photographer: Hörður Sveinsson
But Now I’m underwater
Performance by SIRENS (50:00)
May 2021 at the Salamandar in Amsterdam
Directed by Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir and Sabrina Schlosser
Concept by Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir and Sabrina Schlosser and SIRENS
Movements by Sabrina Schlosser
Soundscape by Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir (SOUNDCLOUD)
Songs by Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir, Marta Gawron, Sabrina Schlosser and Billie Eilish
Outfits by Amanda Bellman
Text by George Mazari
SIRENS:
Valentine Hhevad Langeard
Paola Ancoda
Maya Kuznetsova
Marta Gawron
Sabrina Schlosser
Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir
We are here, we are there, we are nowhere. We are connected to everyone and we are connected to no one. The sea carries waves of all kinds. Water from continent to continent, from place to place. Rivers are the veins of the sea, creating a network of substance where life and history of the Earth are in constant motion. We live in the age of a global and networked digital world. A world in which we encounter space and place through virtual bodies. We can see and interact with everyone from anywhere at any time. It re-renders our experience with each other. Places become generic. We are generic. Everything is generic. Nothing is generic
Big thank you to Huib Koel, Esther Way, Javier, Sam Koel and David Koel for making this possible.
Photogapher: Jaxson Power -Thornton