Cycle Concourse
Alliances vs Adversaries * Reactions vs Resistance * Aggression vs Contemplation * Enabler vs Disabler
The landscape of our experiences is constantly shifting through drastic flows of information, especially on the political and environmental level. How are we to engage with these shifts?
In concourse we have musicians, composers, artists, writers, and game changers who collide and crossover on how they perceive this constantly evolving global landscape and reflect on their diverse practices.
Over two days we will focus on bringing together professionals and influencers in their field who introduce us to their unique way of making sense of the complexity of our technological age and ecological reality.
Friday, 28
13.00-15.00 Symposium
Gerðarsafn Kópavogur Art Museum
Hamraborg 4, 200 Kópavogur
SAFE SPACE
Through shifting borders new identities are born.
How does our understanding of these new borders—political, geographical, and environmental—influence art? What type of engagement should we be having with these changes of identity? Must the artist adopt an adversarial or confrontational mode of engagement? Or is collaboration the ideal option? How can new technology help us overcome inherent restrictions?
ÁKI ÁSGEIRSSON, EGILL SÆBJÖRNSSON, MAGNÚS JENSSON(S.L.Á.T.U.R, composer collective)
ÓLAFUR ÓLAFSSON (artist)
ANDREW RANVILLE (artist & director of the Rabbit Island Foundation. Resident at SÍM)
ELENA RYKOVA (composer, performance artist & improvisator)
JAGODA SZMYTKA (artist & composer)
Moderated by Anja Henckel
Saturday, 29
12.00-14.00 Symposium
Gerðarsafn Kópavogur Art Museum
Hamraborg 4, 200 Kópavogur
ALONG THE SAME LINES
Exploring the connections of past and future through a holistic understanding of the “now“. How can we connect the multiple histories of our globalised world to understand possibilities for a collective Future? Should we be investigating how to avoid disconnecting oneself from the contemporary state of empathy and stay active? Is a direct approach of artist as an activist and/or educator appropriate? What are the new approaches and crossovers we should be paying attention too?
CAITLIN BERRIGAN (artist & professor at NYU, US)
ADAM GIBBONS & BOYLEANDSHAW (artists, publishers, curators, commissioner, UK)
DAVID LEVINE (artist & Professor at Harvard University, US)
JOHANNES PAUL RAETHER (artist, writer & guest professor Arts Academy Duesseldorf, DE)
BERGLIND MARÍA TÓMASDÓTTIR (flutist & interdisciplinary artist, IS)
Moderated by Anja Henckel
Paralell events at the Academy
Cycle Concourse
24 - 30 October 2016 in collaboration with Iceland Academy of the Art
Program
24. Oct Monday
9:00 - 12:10Seminar for M.A students
Caitilin Berrigan from New York University -Tish
(artist talk / kennsla)
25. Oct Tuesday
11:00Vanessa Safavi (artist talk) Open Talk LHÍ
11:00Workshop með Adam Gibbons & boyleANDshaw
at LHÍ performance department
12:30Martina Seitl og Christier Lundahl (artist talk)
26. Oct Wednesday
11:00Workshop with Adam Gibbons & boyleANDshaw
at LHÍ performance department
11:00Workshop with Carolyn Chen and Martin Schüttler Music Department
11:00Constant Dullart (artist talk) Open Talk LHÍ
27. Oct Thursday
12:30 Erik Bünger (artist talk) Open Talk LHÍ