/ CREATION / DESTRUCTION / Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir: Skriða – live performance featuring Borgar Magnason
Skriða consists of audio work and an installation in the innermost space at the Living Art Museum. The work is based on data from the Meteorological Office about the geological transformation that occurred in December 2020 when a landslide fell from the mountain above the town of Seydisfjordur, pushing buildings out into the sea. This event had a huge impact on the community and a permanent impact on the town’s appearance. This is one of the biggest landslides to fall in Iceland. The installation includes rocks that Gunnhildur retrieved from the wound which the landslide left in the mountain. The rocks hang suspended in the air in satin ribbons, forming pendulums, surrounded by a recording of a composition, based on Gunnhildur‘s drawings, played by Borgar Magnason double bass player. The drawings are created with a view of the earth’s imagined sense of time and from the reports of geologists at the Meteorological Office. Thus, the audio synthesis of geological transformation has its roots in musings on different senses of time; on one hand man’s perception of the flow of time and, on the other, the imaginary sense of time of the earth and earth beings; mountains, water and rocks.
The work was created in collaboration with the avalanche department of the Meteorological Office, which gave Gunnhildur access to reports and risk assessments regarding this event. Based on this data, Gunnhildur created drawings that she realised into musical language for Magnason.
The performance will take place in the installation setting at the Living Art Museum. Ribbons hanging from the ceiling elevate and sway rocks collected from the landslide. The pendulums rock to and fro, around Magnason, while he plays the double bass. The gesture of the instrument’s bow moves in parallel with the rock pendulums.
Skriða consists of audio work and an installation in the innermost space at the Living Art Museum. The work is based on data from the Meteorological Office about the geological transformation that occurred in December 2020 when a landslide fell from the mountain above the town of Seydisfjordur, pushing buildings out into the sea. This event had a huge impact on the community and a permanent impact on the town’s appearance. This is one of the biggest landslides to fall in Iceland. The installation includes rocks that Gunnhildur retrieved from the wound which the landslide left in the mountain. The rocks hang suspended in the air in satin ribbons, forming pendulums, surrounded by a recording of a composition, based on Gunnhildur‘s drawings, played by Borgar Magnason double bass player. The drawings are created with a view of the earth’s imagined sense of time and from the reports of geologists at the Meteorological Office. Thus, the audio synthesis of geological transformation has its roots in musings on different senses of time; on one hand man’s perception of the flow of time and, on the other, the imaginary sense of time of the earth and earth beings; mountains, water and rocks.
The work was created in collaboration with the avalanche department of the Meteorological Office, which gave Gunnhildur access to reports and risk assessments regarding this event. Based on this data, Gunnhildur created drawings that she realised into musical language for Magnason.
The performance will take place in the installation setting at the Living Art Museum. Ribbons hanging from the ceiling elevate and sway rocks collected from the landslide. The pendulums rock to and fro, around Magnason, while he plays the double bass. The gesture of the instrument’s bow moves in parallel with the rock pendulums.
