6 hours performance
Ateliers de Bitche, Nantes, France. Stapi show
14th February 2013
In collaboration with Gígja Sara Björnsson
During the exhibition, we walk around the room through the audience, introducing secretly some 1€ coins into people’s pockets. The coins are painted in blue.
At the information desk, we place a signal where it’s written: “Beware of donnors”
6 hours performance-exhibition show, with dinner, movie time and dancing floor. Ateliers de Bitche, Nantes, France.
14th February 2013
In collaboration with Aurélia Nardini, Patrick Belmont, Jean Eudes Macé, Eva Gerson, Viktor Pétur Hannesson, Anouck Arramond, Sunneva Ása Weisshappel
[The Stapi project was born in 2012 in an artistic residency in Arnarstapi, Iceland. After one year, we meet up again in Nantes, France]
At the entrance of the exhibition we placed an information desk, with 2 of us sitting there and giving information to the people. If the audence wanted to participate, we gave them a task. After filling the form with their information and after agreeing not to tell anybody our command, they where free to perform it.
Some o the tasks were simple actions, like mopping a few squaremetres of the floor during the show; offering a boul of soup to one stranger during dinner time; screamig some sentences; carry a chair to the other side of the room; follow the one who is carrying the chair; wear a mask; light the seeling with a flashlight; start crying if you see a certain mask, etc.
The actions were breaking the timeline of the show, bringing some uncertainty to the audience.
None of this actions were filmed, or announced.
February 2013
Ateliers de Bitche, Nantes, France.
Five banners are placed in the exhibition space during the performance-show-exhibition Stapi.
“Everyday, Always, Forever!”
“Stop deluding yourself”
“How dare you?”
“The less you do, the better!”
“We are secretly being poisoned”
Video installation
2012
I placed two cameras in the landscape, facing and recording each other.
(…)
2 hours Performance
In collaboration with Lola Bezemer
2011
During an opening, we were walking around the exhibition, screaming through a megaphone all of this sentences, one of them every 5-10 minutes.
“It has to be big!” / “It has to be interesting!” / “It has to be everywhere!” / “It has to be all the time!” / “It has to be noticed!” / “It has to be loud!” / “It has to be forgotten!” / “It has to be remembered!”
90 min Performance
National Gallery of Iceland; Exhibition Then and Now
In collaboration with Lola Bezemer
2011
We clapped for each art piece in the exhibition, after watching it. Once visited a whole room, we applauded again. We clapped louder or softer, longer or shorter, following the clapping rules and depending on our critique towards every artwork.
Intervention in 3 gardens of Haskólinn í Reykjavík; Venus, Mars and Uranus
2011
I take one stone from each garden and I put them in another one. One stone from Venus garden is placed in Uranus’s, one stone from Uranus is moved to Mars garden, and one stone from Mars is in Venus’s garden.
It’s a circle movement, taking out one stone and filling the gap with another one.
Because of the names of the gardens the intervention becomes ironical. It’s a game within the context, with the space itself.
Somewhere better than this place / Nowhere better than this place (II)
The moment when we understood everything
2 videos looping, may 2012, Spain.
Two videos supposedly synchronizated that happened at the same time, in two different places. A game between two contexts and apparently non-related ideas.
2011
Somewhere better than this place / Nowhere better than this place
2 posters (62x42 cm)
Ultra-thin unfolded paper with sticker letters
2011
I folded two papers together, in order to have a similar pattern in them once unfolded. I write in them with sticker letters the two sentences from Felix Gonzalez Torres’s piece, talking about the dialog between two moments, two places at the same time. It becomes a doubt, a controversial thought about an ideal. A liminal space in-between.
4 different spanish plasticized meat slices
2011
After knowing that receiving meat by post mail in Iceland is strictly forbidden, I asked a friend in Spain to cut meat slices, to plasticize them and to send it to me hidden inside of a book.
2011
At the beginning of my stay in the Iceland Academy of the Arts, with my new notebook in my new studio, I was sitting thinking about how the lack of daylight will influence me during the next months. I started painting carefully a whole page in the middle of my notebook, trying to waste and empty a fluorescent yellow highlighter.
It had enough ink.
Installation
2011
80 slides of the same picture with subtile variations on a carroussel projector.
Continued procrastination, or materializing a nonsense thought
Insallation with colored insulating tapes
2011
Ana preparing a cola-cao in 20 seconds
500 different posters. Digital Offset Printing
2010
Spreading proposal for the exhibition Vaixells, Paròdies, Paraules, Melics i Llàgrimes. In colaboration with Daniel Pino, Ana Llorens and Alba Aguirre.
We recorded Ana preparing and drinking a cola-cao in 20 seconds. We extracted all the frames of the video, and prinited the 500 different posters. On the other side of the page was all the information of the exhibition.
