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Photos: TimothÃ©e Lambrecq.

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Björt Sigfinnsdóttir, co-founder and festival director.

Love, Björt

tering myself, throughout time with respect for whoever I meet on the way, then I’m doing the best I can. It makes me excited not to be there, because it feels like the festival is growing up. 18 years old and independent that’s exciting and now it’s time for my “first born” to prove they can flourish on their own. “Just remember, I’m only a phone call away if you need me – Love mum!” (picture a headingout-to-college scenario) Well not completely on their own, cause mamma LungA and the most amazing LungA team will be there to make sure everything goes as smoothly as possible. Give them a hug or a smile or a sweet comment if you see them, they are really working their ass off and not getting paid even close to what their worth, actually far from it. <3 In this magazine you will also find a lot of interesting material, interviews, articles and art work, as well as the full on program for the festival. Read it carefully and visit our homepage for even more information. But most importantly, I hope you enjoy the festival, each other and what we have put up for you. Ohh and take a lot of pictures and put them on instagram #LungA2018, so that I can follow all the fun from a far.

BJÖRT SIGFINNSDÓTTIR

a staged reading by an american non binary playwright, “Lunchcast” - a gender related podcast event, to a high quality english drag performance, panel discussions, photo exhibition and so much more ... Think that we, here in Seyðisfjörður, in the middle of nowhere, can facilitate the frames for such an important conversation. It has been a personal dream of mine for a long time, for LungA to be able to offer such an ambitious program around a subject as important as this one. I believe that gender, amongst other defining factors in our lives, needs to be brought into the spotlight every once in a while in a safe environment, where curiosity and respect are leading factors of the journey towards figuring out; who am I in this world of chaos, expectation, pressure, power and judgment? And who are you? And how can we, individually and collectively, make our impact on at least just each other if not also our local environment, maybe even Iceland as a country or perhaps one day even the world as a whole, one little piece at a time. I want to live in a world where I feel good enough as I am and comfortable with being exactly this version of myself, with flaws and all. As long as I keep on reflecting and evolving, bet-

It’s that time of year again. Its LungA time, the best time, but this time it’s different. For me at least it is, because I’m actually not gonna be there for the first time in my life. It was bound to happen at some point and what better reason than a birth of a child. Yes I am becoming a mother of a human child. My absence makes me both sad and excited. Sad because it looks and feels like this years festival is going to be the best one yet, by far and I’m not there to enjoy. The program is so juicy with extremely high quality international artists and speakers bringing great content to the guests of the festival. This years theme is also something I am highly passionate about. Gender, and all aspects there off. Through all the gender related talks, performances and happenings we will inevitably bring awareness to equality, respect and love towards everyone despite our differences. I truly hope you will be able to engage in some interesting conversations around the topic, be inspired or learn something new during one or many of the events, which span between everything from “Gender in general - a lecture for beginners on how to navigate respectfully in the world of multiple gender definitions”, to

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PROGRAMME SUNDAY

15. JULY

15:00 World cup final @Café Láran EVENT 20:00 Exhibition and opening

reception @ Herðubreið EVENT

Artist: Konrad Korabiewski with his work “Fjarðarheiði”. An audiovisual installation which contemplates physical and signal landscapes, strongly influenced by the extreme oscillation between daylight and darkness characteristic of life over the year in the far north. Fjarðarheiði is taken from the name of the mountain pass which connects the village of Seyðisfjörður to Egilsstaðir, East Iceland, a road constantly transformed by dense fog, wind, rain, and snow storms.

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Welcoming speech from the LungA board and with performances by Erasmus+, Myndlistarskólinn in Reykjavík, Kaospilot in Denmark, Hyper Island in Sweden and University of Brighton in the UK.

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16. JULY

12:00 YOGA / Meditation

with Sigrún Halla @ Herðubreið EVENT Lecture: Gender in general LUNGA LAB

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A lecture about the basics around different gender definitions and pronouns there are today and how we show each other the upmost respect in that perspective. Lecturer: Alda Villiljós.

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Improv Ísland @ Herðubreið EVENT

Beloved friends of LungA return for another session of improvisational theatre. Improv Iceland is Iceland’s first and only long-form improv theatre company. They have dazzled audiences in Iceland and abroad with their energy, charm and quick wit.

21:30 Hvít sól by IYFAC @TBA EVENT 22:00 Karíókí partý by Snorri @Láran EVENT

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17. JULY

12:00 Lunch-cast

(podcast) @ Herðubreið LUNGA LAB

Bring your lunch.

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tion with Sigrún Halla @ Herðubreið EVENT Concert By Sóley @ The Blue Church EVENT

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Sóley plays a concert in the iconic Blue Church.

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Gender related movie night by Source Material dancing several days later. Flat Earth Film Festival @ Within a week about 100 Herðubreið LUNGA LAB

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18. JULY

16:30 A staged reading of The Kissing Game LUNGA LAB

Read by the creator Rhiannon Collet, a non binary activist from America. Rhiannon Collett is an interdisciplinary artist and playwright whose work focuses on themes of identity, sexuality and ritual.

people had been consumed by the same irresistible urge to dance. MASS takes place in the night where rules of behaviour dissolve in the music, the heat, the substances and hypnosis of dance. Through repetition,

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FUBAR by Sigga Soffía & Jónas Sen @ Herðubreið EVENT

FUBAR

FUBAR is a dance performance by Sigga Soffía in Collaboration with musician Jónas Sen, visual artist Helgi Már Kristinsson and fashion designer Hildur Yeoman. The performance received rave reviews around the country and two nominations from the icelandic theatre awards 2017, Jónas Sen for music of the year and Sigga Soffía for dancer of the year.

21:45 MASS by Rina Rosenqvist @TBA EVENT

Sometime in mid-July 1518, in the city of Strasbourg, a woman stepped into the street and started to dance. She was still

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exhaustion and pulsating movements, the dancers try to reach ecstasy and share a collective chaos. What do we find in the black masses when we lose ourselves in the dark?

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Sleep good: Ambient DJ set by Hirðmar @ TBA EVENT

THURSDAY 19. JULY

12:00 The Book

Market: Black Books by Square Cat @Herðubreið INSTALLATION

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YOGA / Meditation with Sigrún Halla @ Herðubreið EVENT Panel discussion: Gender and creativity @ Herðubreið LUNGA LAB

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How does the idea and construct of gender influence the way we produce and consume what we create? Panelers: Silja Hauksdóttir, Film maker and director, Jón

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M.O.N.U.M.E.N.T by Source Material @ Tvísöngur EVENT

Cultural fault lines. the laws of nature in the face of growing turmoil. a mourning song for the buried shards that rise to the surface in the face of an unfamiliar reign. a murmuring surge an incantation of fierce and enduring loyalty. an act of devotion and transgression (by Nature) a new performance inspired by King Lear. July 19th and 20th, 2018 At LungA Arts Festival Performed site specific, in Tvísöngur

21:30 Drag show by Crystal

Lubrikunt @Herðubreið EVENT

Direct from London CRYSTAL LUBRIKUNT; the lip-sync assassin, storyteller, singer & self-proclaimed ‘talentless man in a wig’ hits LungA Festival this summer! Dominating stages all over the world from New York City to Scotland, Iceland to Los Angeles this force of nature encourages audiences to be their best selves through her charming wit, comedic timing, open heart and ferociously empowering performances.

22:00 Þrennu Thursday Party

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With performers Bjartar Sveiflur & DJ ÓB-1”

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20. JULY

12:00 The Book Market : Black Books by Square Cat @Herðubreið INSTALLATION

16:30 Páll Óskar

artist talk about his experiences and gender @ Herðubreið LUNGA LAB

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M.O.N.U.M.E.N.T by Source Material @Tvísöngur EVENT Friday Exhibition by LungA 2018 Artists Event

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Friday Exhibition NAME LIST

Source Material Sean Patrick O’Brien Rúnar Örn Jóhönnu Marinósson & Gunnar Ragnarsson Friday Workshop Urður Ýr & Laura Durban Elín Signý Laura tack Jökull Snær Þórðarson Kerstin Moeller Sigríður Rut Marrow Antonia Gonzáles Alarcón Kolbrún Inga

Pick up exhibition program at Herðubreið

Square Cat : The Book Market : Black Books black books is an interactive, ¶ post-capitalist, movable pop-up shop, ¶ linked with the activity of dreaming.¶ a non features person, wheelbarrow, sign and black books.¶ all books will be for sale in exchange ¶ for dreams – which will create a base¶ for future objects/stock to be sold at ¶ another square cat market. ¶ the books are all personally selected by myself. The installation stands from Thursday to Saturday.

Hilmar Kárason, Musician, teacher and tv producer; Chrystal Lubrikunt, Performer and entertainer (UK); Rhiannon Collett, Playwriter and performer (USA); Alda Villiljós, Photographer

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21:00 Concerts @ Norðursíld

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12:00 The Book Market :

Black Books by Square Cat @ Herðubreið INSTALLATION Workshop Exhibition

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Starting at Herðubreið where you with receive further instructions at 13:00 sharp, including a map of the town.

21:00 Concerts @ Norðursíld

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14:00 ÞRENNA HOT DOG PARTY EVENT

Free hotdogs for all LungA Festival´s guests, participants and the people of Seyðisfjörður!

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DJ Dominatricks interviewed by Alexander Jean De Fontenay

THE ART OF FEMALE EMPOWERMENT Just a year ago, people hadn’t heard of DJ Dominatricks a.k.a. DJ and visual artists Arna Beth and Melkorka Þorkelsdóttir. Since then they’ve performed their unusual, technologically-centred and absorbing mixtures of music and visuals at numerous concert venues, clubs and festivals in Reykjavík and caught the attention of many. Alexander Jean Alexander

Jean: Hi Arna and Melkorka. Who are you? Arna Beth I’m a non-binary artist making live visuals for DJ sets with my partner Melly! Melkorka Þorkelsdóttir

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At my core, I am an artist, goth girl and Hello Kitty enthusiast. I am also a DJ. I play bubbly disco tracks as DJ Moðerfönker when I’m not at the other side of the sound spectrum in my work with DJ Dominatricks. AJ What goes through your mind when you’re onstage? AB “my hands are way too sweaty to play right now” MÞ In the beginning it was mainly don’t-fuck-anything-up paranoia. Last time we performed I was wondering if the people in the front were staring at my crotch the whole time—I was wearing a very

short skirt. Enjoy the view sweetheart. AJ What do you hope to achieve with DJ Dominatricks? AB We just want to get our tastes and interests across I guess. A lot of it is an exploration of the internet, sex and sexuality.

MÞ Doing what I like to do

the most and getting paid for it! Jokes aside, the fundamental structure of this project is female empowerment. AJ Your performances suggest female empowerment in a male-dominated world and you’ve said that you want people to be a bit afraid of you. What inspired you to work with this subject? AB I think it’s mainly a reaction towards our environment. There is a lot of suppressed anger towards misogyny and the gender norms we are supposed to fit into. A lot of people don’t expect two young women being able to DJ/

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about audience reaction, AJ What is your which is perhaps only opinion on gender normal when the direcidentity and roles tion of a new project is and how does it in question. “Does this translate into your work?”, “Is this too much?” performances? and “What is the audience AB As a nonexpecting?” But, being in binary identifying Reyjavík I’ve noticed it’s individual I do think two-sided. Either people it is important to love it or they feel commake us visible in pletely detached to it. Both this world, which reactions are totally fine! is currently very When it all comes down cis-male dominatto it, I am quite hedonistic, ed. It can be very so everything I project is empowering to be something I would like to on stage for us and experience myself. being able to express our identities freely AJ How can a society with and openly. a more equal, positive and open-minded attitude MÞ The centre towards gender identity of gravity in this and roles be achieved? project is of course sound and image, AB In my opinion it’s quite but I do get a kick simple, the male ego must from taking our tobe stripped down to its tality to certain exbones. Complete symtremes each time— pathetic, anti-capitalist Crassly appealing yet and anti-competition intimidating. Paint structures must be applied for the back row. to the society. AJ As artists and MÞ To be honest I feel like performers, do you music in Iceland can get see it as your duty quite monotonous at times. Which is only normal for Photo: Timothee Lambrecq. to promote gender equality and break a society whose pop culture down gender stereotypes? In is dependant on gregarious VJ as well as our male what way can artists help? hype. Not that I’m against counterparts. people in general. I like goMÞ My DJ career started in AB Only CIS-gendered indiing to Prikið [hip-hop venue primary school at the height viduals have the DUTY in Reykjavík] and listening of a seriously vulnerable to promote it, we simply to trap music made by period. I got my first gig ARE it. young boys with questionfor having the guts to be MÞ Totally. No matter which able backgrounds. It’s just a demanding girl with a field you choose—artistic not all there is. Despite our loud mouth in a situaor not. Each platform nation’s size, there seems comes with responsibility, tion dominated by males. to always be a flourishing no matter the level your Despite this tragicomical and funky music scene. I’m platform is at. start, it took me a while to starting to believe that this say goodbye to being DJ AJ How have people been is mostly about having the Spineless Crowd-pleaser. reacting to your work so far? guts to make a statement With time—in a male-cenHas it been in the way you and stepping out of your expected? tric show business—I did circle, wherever that is. AB We do get a lot of attention start to notice that it didn’t for being a multi-media AJ Is there something you make a difference if I was duo. I was actually surprised wish to add? DJ Spineless Crowd-pleaser by how often people saw AB Support the underground or DJ Unapologetic Cunt! messages or stories from MOVEMENT. New As a result I was freed of our visuals. It’s great to hear cultures emerging are thinking so much about authat there are people who the future. dience reaction which once want alternative electronic was a central point in my music on the dancefloor. DJing. I have fewer fucks MÞ To begin with I was all to give yet nothing to lose.

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WORKSHOPS

Our workshop at the LungA festival 2018 will be an examination of ways to copy figures. What happens when you have an object or an image that you want to reproduce? We would like to find ways to repeat and transfer ideas and give you a bit of an insight into the technical side of reproduction and print processes but also encourage new ways to copy an object. Mareen Wrobel (GER) & Mark Bohle (BCN) – Best friends but designers.

CHARACTERS

Have fun to develop characters. Have fun to pretend that no-one knows that it’s you. Have fun to show us your beauty and charm and humour from behind your disguise. Trygve Wakenshaw is a great performer who specialises in physical comedy.

COMFORT ZONE

We will find the comfort zone and enjoy the stay there for a couple of days. Then we will take a look at what is outside of the comfort zone

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and find out what we would like to try. At the workshop I will introduce improvisation techniques used in dance, in making movement material/ choreography. We will try out different ways of making material that can be used in the creation process.

ENTER THE DREAM

I had the craziest dream last night. “What happened?”. Wait, I’ll show you What if we could experience the same dream? or even the same nightmare? In this workshop we will use our unrestricted imagination to create art. We want you and all your surreal and mundane ideas so that we can together create a dream feast.

MAPPING THE INVISIBLE

We call to all art creatures to join us in a workshop centered around creating performance in a collaborative space. In this workshop we will connect to our bodies, voices, one another, and our intuition techniques, as well as Russian to create an ensemble as we etude work, and ritual techexplore different theatre / pernologies. But most importantformance approaches. We will ly, we will seek to map the not only invisible space between us. challenge The workshop will end with our pera performance generated by formative the group. athleticism, but work MUSICAL TRIP through Lunga and the art department different in Seyðisfjarðarskóla would approaches like to invite all young adults to text and/ from the age of 12-18 to join or material. this workshop from the 16thWe will 20th of July. work with The group will be lead classical by Magga Stína and Benni. text, Everyone will pick a musical traditioninstrument, of course with al songs, respect to each and every physical person’s enthusiasm (partictheatre and ipants may bring their own Grotowski instruments!)

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NOT A HORROR HOUSE

Mapping the Invisible

The goal is to come to LungA with open hearts ready to create and at the end we will hold a concert with our original music. In this way, we learn from our own creative power, as well as the creativity of each other. We train ourselves in listening and other useful, fun aspects. All of this we learn from each other and get in a unique way through the music. Magga Stína is a musician, a teacher and a radio star. Benni Hemm Hemm is the artist name of Benedikt H. Hermannsson a musician and a teacher at the art department in Seyðisfjarðarskóli. To sign up for the workshop visit lunga.is Price 10.000.kr (week long workshop and lunch)

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Imagine a Horror House FRIDAY WORKSHOP where the objective is to make On this years LungA Festival you terrified and scared. Let’s we (everyone involved) will then swap the terror out for engage in a 24-hour perforhappiness and the scariness mance concerning the idea of out for joy. What remains is demonstration. ‘Not a Horror House’ The motives are still In the workshop we’ll work unclear. But since we are alive together with the participants we might as well play the part to create the piece ‘Not a and not resign our existence Horror House’. Positivity, to whatever available mode of trust and friendship will play indifference we are around. a fundamental part in this As a temporary organism workshop. We know only one we will be going around thing and that is if you want a mountain, be north of a to make people happy, you’ll mountain, be on top of a have to have fun yourself. mountain, be on another side We want to create a strucof a mountain. Spiralling ture around what it is that pointless intentions. An act makes people happy. In this of walking combined with workshop we will investigate actions of performing words what it is that makes us hapand/or words that performs py in the purpose of making actions. Speaking and walkthe piece. ing are both ways of carving out spaces in the world for something to exist. The PUPPETRY & sound of our voices will echo DIGITAL VIDEO between the mountains. This workshop will explore Please bring warm clothes the basics of enhancing for working and being outpuppetry techniques with side (at night). simple digital video tools. The The performance begins workshop will examine how thursday night 22.00 and to approach puppetry with last not more or less then 24 video in mind, and investigate hours. Everyone involved will how to manipulate puppetry receive more inperformance using video formation one editing tools such as week before After Effects tracking the perforand compositing. Bamance begins. sic understanding We declare ourof video editing selves prepared is suggested but to consider not required. the potentially Artist filmdisruptive effect maker Anon our own drew Thomas practice and Huang lives perception that and works in might occur. Los Angeles. Huang’s film and video work has exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, NYC; MoMA PS1; The Barbican Centre, London; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Copy & Paste Waves

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Interview with Andrew Thomas Huang by Björt Sigfinnsdóttir

ABOUT GENDER AND MORE Björt Sigfinnsdóttir We are

very excited to have you at LungA and honoured, to say the least. We admire your undeniable talent. But for those who may not know so much about you yet, tell us briefly who you are, about your line of work and your connections to Iceland. Andrew Thomas Huang I’m a filmmaker and visual artist with specialty in directing experimental

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films, video art and music videos. I have a background in drawing/painting as well as puppetry and animation. Much of my work combines live action performance with mixed media often with digital manipulation. I frequently collaborate with Bjork and have also collaborated with Sigur Ros, Thom Yorke, Kelela and Perfume Genius among others.

BS We like to get a bit up close

and personal at LungA, as you probably will experience, it can be quite intimate and I think this interview should reflect that a little bit. I’m curious to know what moves you these days? What makes you laugh, cry, get emotional in any way and why? AH I cry from almost anything. The last time I cried was when I was in New York and saw the Jim Henson exhibit at the Museum of Moving Image. They had the actual Big Bird puppet from Sesame Street on exhibit and seeing the 7 foot tall character from my childhood in person was enough to get me bawling. BS How do your own emotional experiences influence your work? AH I mean, emotional experiences as they translate into art are obviously extremely important. But I find sometimes when I try to create through a splurge of emotion, things don’t always work out. More often than not they don’t. Trying to elicit something emotional I find can be a very tedious, technical and often boring process. I don’t know if channeling a particular emotion is always the answer to creating emotional work, though it can certainly help. I see emotion and creative flow as two separate rivers that bleed into each other sometimes. But in general I find it is

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BS What do you see as our

biggest challenge when it comes to gender today? And when I say our, I mean us as the world society as a whole. Or perhaps if you want to narrow it down a bit, you can choose to focus on Western society. AH The biggest challenge is expanding our imagination for what gender is, how it is performed and what alternative identities/morphologies are available to us and our children in the future. How do we dismantle the fragile, rigid constructs of patriarchal masculinity from the past, and substitute it with a new vision of future masculinities and femininities? And how do we do it cross-culturally? BS How do you want to contribute to gender equality? AH I guess showing people what modes of identity are possible through my work— both real and imaginary. BS Do you feel we have an individual responsibility when it comes to that subject. AH Yeah, I do. I mean, I think the world would be a healthier place in general if we challenged everyone to re-examine the roles they perform every day and ask them to make more room for new gender modalities both in others and within themselves. BS Will you bring the theme of the festival into your workshop in any way? AH My focus for LungA is to teach about breathing life into nonhuman entities in the practice of puppetry and digital filmmaking. I do believe discourse on gender is both welcome and inherent when dealing with any medium that involves performance, characterization and even animating the nonhuman world. In fact, I believe it is the nonhuman world that has the most to teach us about gender fluidity.

and pretended I was a Disney Princess. I was an effeminate boy from the beginning and struggled most of my life to deal with that. As a teenager most of my friends were lesbians and I aspired to model myself after the kind of the strength and queer masculinity that they embodied. Now as an adult I find that masculine and feminine sides of me are seasonal and change like a tide depending on my emotional state or role I’m playing on a given job. I do identify as cis male, but sometimes I do reflect back on that little boy who wore blankets as dresses as a kid and wonder if that part of me had been allowed to healthily thrive as a child that maybe would’ve changed how I identify today. Hard to say. through technical calculaBS What about your work, can you draw any lines between tion, trial and error that you your work and specific genend up with a product that der roles or rules? elicits any kind of emotion. BS Gender is the theme this AH I mean, I think anything year, what is the first thing I make can be gendered by that comes to mind when viewers but I think I like you hear that word? to keep things ambiguous, and allow characters in my AH Gender is performed. Hats work to adopt whatever off to Judith Butler. position on the gender BS How has gender, your own spectrum that they need gender identity or gender in to. Embodying complex general affected you throughqueerness is more imporout life? tant to me than embodying AH When I was a very very one particular masculinity/ young kid I wrapped femininity. blankets around my waist

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Interview by Birna Ketilsdóttir Schram

THE IMPORTANCE OF SITTING ON A ROCK

Nanna Juelsbo on her ongoing conversation with nature and hunger for slowness.

INTERVIEW: NANNA JUELSBO

What do you mean by poetic invasion? N By poetic I mean a slower life. A life that opens up to Festival in Seyðisfjörður where more opportunities; more Birna What is the name of this the whole town celebrated the time for walks, being outmountain?” first days of light after months of side in these surroundings, Nanna I have no idea. I am complete darkness. Nanna and I more time to write. And sitting here, waiting for had had a conversation the day beto think. It is important to her to tell me. fore, talking about my third-year find new ways of living our This mountain here is project; a film about witches in lives, to question the way Bjólfur, I think he is a he. Iceland. We ping-ponged our own we live. It almost feels like I can interpretations of the word ‘witch’ This is where I thrive. read him like I can read a and wondered if they exist in our That is, in nature. I am book. He is not telling me modern society. We came to the not an indoor person. anything. He just stands conclusion that a witch is a wise Nature is a huge interest there, looking the way woman that holds a knowledge of of mine. It has always been, he does. It is up to me to nature. She is connected to herself, an inspiration as well. figure out the rest. Why It is in everything I do, are these layers as they are? her spirit is unafraid to lead her life according to her own beliefs. whatever I write about or What patterns are in him? think of is always centered How does he smell? How N Well, in that case, I know a around nature. is he shaped? Is he cold or lot of witches. Myself, for warm? I wonder what is example. But I don’t like B Why do you think people inside of him … to put labels on myself. As don’t spend as much time Being out here definitesoon as I call myself a witch in nature as they used to? ly feels like opening up I feel like am closing down N I am from a generation to another channel. I am on other things I could be. where we are constantly on reminding myself of the One of the Icelandic words for the run. Running towards importance of just sitting a witch (I have found out there something that we don’t on a rock, looking at a are many) is Seyðkona. I thought really know what it is. We mountain, and wondering. it was fitting for Nanna, as she have this idea of success In between the mountains in the is living in Seyðisfjörður. And where we have everything; East of Iceland lives the writer and even though she doesn’t like to money, power and hapKaospilot Nanna Juelsbo. Though be labeled I will from now on call piness. I am questioning she is originally from Denmark, her Nanna Seyðkona. where to find this happiNanna says she might be from ness. Do I find it in work? N Moving here to Iceland Iceland. She is still figuring it out. In my family life? By being feels like a poetic invasion I met Nanna during the Light around people that I love? into my life. B

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thing I have missed during Do I find it in nature? winter are things growing. I think there are so many I really enjoy finding edible different ways of finding things in nature like wild that state of happiness than herbs, berries or yarrow. But by defining yourself in even though I miss that in a work situation. the winter it is okay. B Seyðisfjörður is celebrating the arrival of the light this B Because you appreciate it week — how has it been to more when it’s not there live in a place so dark? all year long? N I really enjoyed it. Again, N Definitely, and it’s also the slowness. I have a hunnature’s way of making ger for slowness. And you perfect sense. Not being can find it here, all year long productive all year round. but especially in wintertime. That is same with human I have never read or written beings, everybody needs a as much, especially in Janurest. Nature needs its rest ary, when it was completely right now, and I have to dark. It suited me really wait for it. It’s setting limwell. Just as it suits me now its for me, and my way of the light is returning and using nature. It’s beautiful then summer will come and that I can’t decide. I am just after summer there will be a human being. autumn and there will be B You surrender to nature. winter again. Seasons have N Yeah, and I feel very small, always suited me. I would sitting here. not be able to live a life of B How is it to feel small? eternal summer or eternal N Incredibly liberating. I have winter, or eternal anything. always felt very small in I need change. The only comparison to nature.

Photo: Birna Ketilsdóttir Schram.

There is definitely a hierarchy and I am way below. It feels wonderful. We can’t tame or gain power over nature. We cannot decide nor design everything around us, even though we try. B How are people moved by your way of being a Seyðkona? N I think they are inspired to start questioning aspects of their own lives. “Do I need to work as much as I do? Do I need to spend money on the things I am spending money on? Maybe I should just go out, be quiet and try to live a little bit slower. My brother is visiting me from Denmark at the moment. We went up the mountain the other day and he said to me: “Nanna, you really got it. You have it all figured out.” But I don’t feel like I do. It’s just here all the time, everybody can have it. It’s just a way of living life. It’s a choice. You decide what steps you take. I think it’s nice to be reminded of that once in a while. I experience that people are living one life while actually wanting to live another one. Always looking at others thinking: “Oh she’s got it. I want to escape but I can’t do it. I’m just lost here in Copenhagen, too busy with my work.” For me there is no such thing, it is all about choices, if you want to change, then change — move out of Copenhagen, do something different. I like to be the devil’s advocate around it because I think people are trying to push responsibility for their own actions in life into something else. It is actually quite simple; If you always walk to the right, then for once try to take a step to the left. And see what happens.

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I’m swollen I’m bleeding Lying in a dark pool of blood It smells bad Shooting pains Been given a pill to close the wound Irritable! Eye infection! I can only see with one eye, need to hide the blood Why was I born a female. The world has repressed femininity As a woman I’m left with exfoliate pain Seeing myself as a victim Annoyance, anger, shame, condemnation

My life force is shackled Like the stream that stopped streaming The world needs change Otherwise I’ll disappear The victim believes that the past is stronger than the now That is not true When I have a nightmare it is easier to wake up I wake up and I’m no longer a victim When I’m bleeding I rearrange my pain into radiated femininity Like a piece of wood turns into a fire after being put on the blaze I feel the volcano inside me The power I was born with as a women The stream finally streams to the sea On the way I influence the world.

Let’s wake up together and stream without hindrance into the sea Let’s change the world

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As we sacrifice the perception of the female reality Why did society become so male dominated ? I’m the one who can give birth to creation I’m the one who can nurture creation My pussy gave birth to you My breast nurture you I’m magical I’m a witch I’m powerful I’m a women

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Texti og þýðing: Þórhildur Tinna Sigurðardóttir.

THE GENDER TROUBLE OF CLAUDE CAHUN

In the photograph you can see a petite man in a checkered jacket. He stands next to a mirror. His reflection seems more feminine and the viewer might doubt the gender of the subject. The masculine side looks the viewer dead in the eye but the more feminine side glances away Lucy Reneé Mathilde Schwob is the birth name of the artist, she was born in 1894 in France. Her artist name was Claude Cahun, Cahun interestingly was her mother’s maiden name. Furthermore, Claude in French can be understood as both feminine and masculine. This work of art seems to reflect these facts. Male or female or something in between? The works of Cahun are known primarily for her experiments and contemplations concerning gender. The man looks to the world but the woman looks from it. Perhaps, Cahun is expressing her views on her role in society, on the repression and injustice which followed being a woman at her time. She was acknowledge as an artist in her lifetime, but solely for her writing. She had a buzz-cut, no eyebrows and was vocal about being a homosex-

they were in fact rather misogynistic. Cahun wasn’t even once mentioned in any statements of exhibitions she participated in. The main subject for the surrealists were the woman, most often portrayed as a goddess or a lover. For the men in the movement, the woman could also take up the role of a witch, a mystic woman or a kind of femme-enfant, childishly innocent. They became the embodiment of the mysterious ual woman which drew a good beauty and the root of eroticism. share of scandal to her everyday The fantasies of men play a lead life. She accentuated certain role in Surrealism and because of masculine qualities in both her appearance and behaviour, which them the female was confirmed as a subject of desire at the gave her more respect. Not for women’s expense. her feminine qualities nor her Cahun was no exception, anatomically given gender. The checkered jacket puts an emphasis her main subject was a womon the two differing forces in the an. She illustrates an image of picture. You can sense the tension herself as a woman, a man and between the two roles that Cahun something in between and plays with her multifaceted self. She plays in the piece. The strict gender dichotomy in society that was takes it, distorts it and provokes the conventional femininity and held in belief at the time. She rejected conventional obedience which many artists gave women in their work. With beliefs concerning gender and sexuality in her writings. The self, this deconstruction and distortion of the conventional gender to her was a multi-layered, ever changing and unstable entity. She identities - she created a space was kind of a part of the surrealist for discussion between them. She created doubts about the veracity movement which was contraof these rooted gender identities. dictory in a sense. They were a In her work you can sense the more liberal art movement than inner struggle of an artist, an any other at the time but still

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Claude Cahun (1894-1954) Self-Portrait, 1928 11.8 x 9.4 sm Musée des Beaux – Artes, Nantes

lover Marcel Moore. Cahun was completely forgotten until the later half of the 8o’s, when Francois Leperlier published a book on her. The odds were against her during her lifetime. As a woman, a homosexual woman and if that were not enough she was also Jewish when the holocaust took place. She has had an immense influence on certain contemporary artists. She was a pioneer in artistic self-contemplation and self-(de)construction. She worked through her traumas that she had experienced for being a homo-

attempt to know better and understand deeply herself as well as her role and place in the world in a different way than most did. She was without a doubt ahead of her time and despite many obstacles she never let the undercurrent of misogyny drown her. Only one of the hundreds of self-portraits she took was published in her lifetime. She considered herself over anything an author and was mainly known for her writings. All of the self-portraits were intended for personal use, for her and her

sexual woman and Jewish with this artistic self-exploration. Her work is very intertwined with her life, her art is an extension of herself. Despite the problems she had to face she seemed to practice a constant self examination and tried to her fullest potential to understand and expand her self-knowledge. Today we can find a lot of overlap between what Cahun did and the things that are taking place now. With the social media revolutions of the day the victims of repression, violence and persecutions find solace and strength in the crowd. Cahun is one of many women that created works of art as catharsis, in other words to work through trauma and injustices experienced. In the beginning of the 20th century it was almost impossible for a woman to vocally express in a piercing way about the discrimination she had experienced. Therefore, it is interesting to imagine Cahun in this time and age publishing, or posting, all of her self-portraits. They would’ve definitely not been private. We can sense what she practiced all around us, now on social media, people are all posting endless amounts of selfies and trying on different characters. But also we are all creating together a space where we can challenge the rooted and outdated ideals that control our society as we know it now. People are practicing the same intimate self-exploration on social media as Claude did. Diversity is being celebrated and people show their vulnerability at the same time as they stand their ground for their beliefs and identities.

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WHAT DO TO IN SEYÐISFJÖRÐUR Suggestions from Björt Sigfinnsdóttir, locally born and the festival director.

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spirit of Dieter Roth, a world famous Swiss/German artist who lived his last years partly in Seyðisfjörður. You will find books about him, artwork by him plus a lot of paper, pens, card games and other entertainment to play with during your visit. They also make the world’s best pizza if you ask me - I recommend Byggðarhóll and ask for the chilli jam with it. On the second floor there is a gallery, so check out their current exhibition as well. Tvísöngur This is an outdoor sculpture that you can walk inside of. It comprises of several concrete domes designed to move sound. Depending on where you stand inside it the sound will magnify and travel along the dome’s walls. It is hard to explain, it’s a ‘must do’ experience. Ask for directions —everybody knows where it is and it is marked on the town’s map which you can get at the information center by the harbour.

you’ll pass the only dairy farm in the fjord, Hánefsstaðir, you’ll pass old ruins of Eyrin a former town where about 300 persons lived back in the days. You’ll see the ruins of Þórarinsstaðir and the excavation, where they found a graveyard, two types of churches and artifacts dated back to around 900 - 1000. At the mouth of the fjord you’ll find the magnificent Skálanes bird cliff with hundreds of birds and If you are lucky you might see whales swimming around. Even though you don’t make it all the way,

the landscape is just wonderful and so is the peace and quiet, so I highly recommend this rout for a longer trip.

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Vestdalseyrarfoss

as Vestdalseyri on the map and then walk along the river up in to the mountain (just a little bit. 100 meters maybe) then you will find my favourite waterfall of all times. It is tucked away from everyone yet it is so close and so majestic. I spent a lot of

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Photo: visitseydisfjordura.is

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is Búðarárfoss, but it is very often called Múlafoss after the house I grew up in, Múli, just like Jón Múli, one of Iceland’s legendary radio host and songwriter who also lived there way back.

08 Iceland’s best sushi place according Norð Austur

to myself and many other international food critics/ bloggers. Also note, it only serves local fish. If you like Sushi, check this place out. They also have a really nice restaurant on the ground floor in the same house, Nordic restaurant, which is really good as well. Both of them were in The White guide 2017.

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09 I haven’t tried this myself, as I am a bit afraid Kayaking with Hlynur

of the sea, but everyone I know who has done it tells me it is WONDERFUL! Especially if you have the chance to go for a midnight tour in good weather.

Seyðisfjörður tours offers bike rental and tours with or without a guide Awesome if you

The swimming pool is very small

and cosy and also child friendly They also have two

hot tubs and a sauna. I love it, unlike most pools in iceland this one is special as its all indoors, perfect for a cold day. But, if it is sunny, then perhaps just take a dip in the lagoon, bathe in the ocean or jump off the bridge and then warm yourself up in the pool/ sauna afterwards. Another waterfall Just behind the house I grew up in. It is a short walk but uphill and you can get so close to it that it starts raining on you ☺ Follow the towns’ main road to the small boat harbour and then turn to your right and up the mountain. The waterfall’s name

Enjoy your stay, don’t be shy with the locals, ask around and you will get unique experiences!

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my childhood around there playing with my friends. It is also two storeys high, if you follow it up the cliff you will find the second one that is just as magnificent. The Church If you are into churches, the Seyðisfjörður church is quite special. It is light blue in its colour and has a very bizarre story around it. I’m not gonna spoil it though, I think it is more fun to get the story inside the church or at least when you are in the town. So ask the person who is working there or go to the information center. It’s has a connection to a story about elves and sailing.

want to explore the coastline for example and all that untouched nature. Fjarðarsel There you’ll find stunning nature, the starting point of the marked walking trail to Fjarðarsel is close by the bridge in center of town. There you’ll also find one of the oldest power plant in Iceland and a beautiful waterfall. If you love love love waterfalls, you should walk further up into the valley along the river and enjoy all the 25 beautiful waterfalls in the Fjarðará river.

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Each year Lunga festival hosts the European Youth Exchange in collaboration with Erasmus+, which brings 60 young creatives from around northern europe together, to unfold important themes relevant to society. Set over four days, participants go through an explorative journey, understanding, collaborating, designing and conceptualising their findings,

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