FAMILY - FUN
25.03.-29.04.2012
Curver Thoroddsen

For six weeks the Living Art Museum takes the form of a playroom intended for children and families. A range of activities and play structures fill the premises along with an enormous Bouncing Castle. Each weekend for the duration of the show, the Icelandic Boy and Girl Scout Association will sell cotton candy, hotdogs and colorful balloons and surprise visitors will entertain the younger generations each Saturday.

Family-Fun is a new work by Curver Thoroddsen. Curver received his BA degree in visual arts from the Icelandic Academy of the Arts in 2000 and his MFA degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2009. In his practice he utilizes a range of medium; videos, installations, performances and relational aesthetics to examine ideas of self, popular culture and society. Reality as perceived by most takes on an altered meaning when transferred to the realm of visual arts; this notion is a reoccurring theme in Curver’s art as he has presented works where he celebrated Christmas publicly via internet live streaming, held a yard sale in the National Museum of Iceland and sold Puffin pizza at the rurally isolated lighthouse of Bjargartangaviti. String of his works evolve around the idea of the nuclear family where he explores its communications and interactions in works such as The Family Quintet, Untitled Shaving Piece and Fatherhood. Curver is also an active musician as a member of the experimental outfit Ghostigital.

The project is realized in collaboration with Reykjavik City, Skataland.is and The Football Association of Iceland. Family-Fun will later join Reykjavik’s 2012 Children‘s Culture Festival in mid-April where the emphasis is on all things related to children’s culture.