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POV conductor cam: Experience Hilmar Örn Agnarsson in action

Hilmar Orn Agnarsson POV camera at the Reykjavik Arts Festival 2014 with the South Icealand Chamber ChoirThanks to photographer and film maker Brian Fitzgibbon you can now experience a brief moment of what it's like to sing in one of Hilmar Örn Agnarsson's choirs. Captured at Saturday's concert for the 2014 Reykjavik Arts Festival it makes me think we should install a Conductor Cam™ at all of our events. Hilmar is renowned for his ability to get an incredibly rich and emotional sound from the choristers he leads, a skill that caught the attention of Sir John Tavener a decade ago and started the long relationship between the composer and the South Iceland Chamber Choir.

The best thing though is of course to go and see the choir for real to get the full experience of Hilmar's magic and this week you've got two chances. The first is tomorrow at the Choir's home venue of Skálholt in the mountains of Iceland's Suðurland and is a major fundraising event to allow the choir to continue their work.

If that's too far to travel they're heading to the UK for the Ageas Salisbury Arts Festival for a performance on Monday the evening of the 2nd June that will feature Jack White's "Islands (Ynysoedd)" work performed in it's entirety for the first time in the UK - a piece created through our Collaborative Compositions programme, the second round of which is open now.

Concert video (teaser) from Brian FitzGibbon on Vimeo.

tags: chamber choir, choir, classical, collaborative compositions, iceland, Jack White, John Tavener, live music, Music, new music, reykjavik
categories: Film, Jack White, Music, Our Projects, Performance, South Iceland Chamber Choir
Tuesday 05.27.14
Posted by andybrydon
 

New Art Spaces Federation House Launch

Federation House Official Launch 13th March 2014On Thursday Federation House, the building that is our new home, officially launches. 

Come down and see how Castlefield Gallery's New Art Spaces programme is allowing us and many other Manchester artist's groups the opportunity to create new creative spaces in the city, making use of the incredible historic buildings of the Co-operative as they move into their new home Noma.

We'll be showing photography and film of our recent projects as well as being around to talk about current projects Northern Lights, Collaborative Compositions and our Residency in our open studio on the Upper Ground Floor with loads more happening throughout the building courtesy of our fellow Federation housemates.

We're always interested in meeting anyone interested or keen to get involved in what we do so please head down. We may even be dishing out some Icelandic goodies.

Doors at 6, speeches from 6.30.

categories: Andrew Brooks, Art, Current Projects, Design, Film, Funding, Installation, Our Projects, Painting, Photography, Residency, Sculpture, Urban Spaces
Tuesday 03.11.14
Posted by andybrydon
 

Sigurður Guðjónsson - FJARLÆGÐ

Sigurdur Gudjonsson - Distance 2012.

With his work still on show at the Liverpool Biennial Sigurður Guðjónsson opens his latest solo show at Reykjavik's Kling & Bang tomorrow from 5pm with new work FJARLÆGÐ (Distance).  

"In Distance Guðjónsson explores the basic elements of perception. He intertwines discontinuous images, sounds and movements, creating a complete structure, that challenges formalism and aesthetics. The coexistence and friction of visual perception with other forms of perception has formed Guðjónsson's aesthetics. The world of his body of work is distant but it physically pulls the audience to the core of the works, shivering with desire for contact with the significance of the fundamental shapes"

FJARLÆGÐ
10. 11. 2012 - 09. 12. 2012

Kling & Bang gallery
Hverfisgata 42
IS-101 Reykjavik
Iceland

Open Thursday-Sunday from 2-6 pm.

categories: Art, Film
Friday 11.09.12
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Lost Rivers

Lost Rivers - OFFICIAL TRAILER from Catbird Productions on Vimeo.

Spent the day developing the next evolution of the hugely popular Secret Cities project with Hayley from Skyliner. We'll still be working in partnership with the supremely talented Andrew Brooks but also looking to start programming the spaces we find with exciting artistic performances and events - everything from exhibitions, live art, dance, spoken word, music and film.

A hot topic of conversation was how badly Manchester (our home town) abuses its rivers by hiding them away, the city essentially turning its back on its waterways since they were used as the prime means of transport to warehousing during the Industrial Revolution.

So it's timely that Reykjavik based Docs and Film Festivals sent us details of this new doc from Caroline Bâcle - Lost Rivers screening at CPH:DOX on Thursday & Saturday.

tags: documentary, Film, urban exploration, urban planning, urbex
categories: Film, Urban Spaces
Tuesday 11.06.12
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North Atlantic Pavilion - Liverpool Biennial 2012

North Atlantic Pavilion, Liverpool Biennial 2012 from Curated Place on Vimeo.

In the North Atlantic Pavilion we present three artists from West Nordic region: Hanni Bjartalid from the Faroe Islands, Sigurdur Gudjonsson from Iceland and Jessie Kleemann from Greenland - each representing a city as part of City States that, though small in population, is fierce in their strength of identity.

In small nations the experience of the city differs drastically from the image of the sprawling metropolis that readily springs to mind with the notion of the urban. In Tórshavn, Reykjavík and Nuuk the edge of town is never too far away, the idea of community not lost in a mythologised past.

In these cities hospitality plays a central role, not just in the shared personal lives of their inhabitants but also in the building of the nation. Each city sits on the coast, each with a long history of welcoming visitors. But with any unknown visitor, particularly one backed by a greater power, there’s an inherent anxiety, a desire to impress and yet a necessity to keep a distance until intentions and allegiances are known.

The rituals and acts of hospitality are like a dance revealing the culture and expectations of the host whilst creating an environment to encounter the hosted on home turf. The notion of hospitality is inherently a welcoming gesture but it creates and maintains a barrier between those inside and those out.  

In extending hospitality to another a host-guest relationship is created, a power relationship.  However, the context is crucial - where hospitality is extended inherently one party is on unfamiliar ground and so, within this limiting context, existing power relationships of the wider world can be negotiated, played with and subverted – at least for a time.

Focusing on work that raises questions about surface appearances of hospitality, the exhibition explores this tension between host and hosted.

A common theme running throughout the work is the creation of space that welcomes audiences. Each artist creates their own stage for the encounter of hospitality to take shape, within which duration and experience beyond the visual is key – whether considering that experience through stasis, anticipation or degradation.

In this accompanying film the artists reflect on their works. It is our aim to reveal a little more about how the encounters can be read from an insiders perspective in order to create an environment where relationships might go beyond the initial surface encounter to create deeper, lasting connections.

Curated by Andy Brydon & Ingi Thor Jónsson.  See all of the North Atlantic Pavilion films at vimeo.com/channels/northatlantic.

The North Atlantic Pavilion is supported by the Kulturekontakt Nord Culture and Art Programme, the Nordic Culture Fund and Arts Council England’s grants for the arts. Special thanks are also due to Samskip and the Embassy of Iceland in the UK. City States is presented by Liverpool Biennial in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University.

For more information on Curated Place and our ongoing international residency programme visit www.curatedplace.com

The North Atlantic Pavilion is open until the 25th November 2012 as part of Liverpool Biennial's City States in the Old Sorting Office, Copperas Hill, L3 1AA.

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categories: Art, Film, Installation, Our Projects, Painting, Performance, Sculpture
Friday 11.02.12
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