L I M I N A L I T Y is a seminar and a showcase of the collaborative cross boarder creative project Moving Classics Sonic Flux. The Project received funding from Creative Europe back in 2019 with further funding from Nordic Culture Point and Nordisk Kultufond in 2020. Along with partners in Iceland, UK, Cyprus and Norway we have worked over the last 3 years on 6 artistic project with several artists from different countries in Europe, focusing on the concepts of displacement, home and belonging.
We will showcase 4 sonic short film and want to invite the audience to enjoy but also to engage with the artists with questions about their artistic approach and their experience of this collaboration.
Representatives from Creative Europe and Nordisk Kulturfond will be present where you are welcome to ask questions about funding opportunities.
Programme:
Steinrunninn (Petrified) by Chris Paul Daniels (UK) og Anton Kaldal (IS)
A Green Line by Maria Anastassiou (CY)og Brice Catherin (FR) - LIVE performance from clarinet play George Georgiou from Cyprus
No Place Like Home by Jez Dolan (UK) and Michael Betteridge (UK)
Liminality by Pálínu Jónsdóttir (IS), Ewa Marcinek (PL), Halldór Smárason (IS) and Martyna Daniel (PL).
We will offer refreshments after the event and encourage guests to stay, mingle and enjoy.
Free event
In English
Further details on the short films
Steinrunninn (Petrified) by Chris Paul Daniels (UK) & Anton Kaldal (IS)
Narrated by Ragnhildur Gísladóttir
This sonic film is a lyrical exploration of collective and cultural eruptions in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Westmann Islands' (Southern Iceland) volcanic outburst.
The volcano erupted unexpectedly in the early morning of January 23rd 1973, leading to the immediate and safe evacuation of the local population of 5000 people. Using analog film observations of the island and other contemporary sites of eruption within Iceland as a focal point, Steinrunninn maps the personal to broader connotations of cultural and ecological histories. Filmed in the summer of 2021, in the immediate aftermath of the first waves of the covid-19 pandemic, the work contrasts geographical deep time with the communal aftershocks, impacts and recovery from singular and unexpected events.
A Green Line by Maria Anastassiou (UK, CY) and Brice Cathrin (FR) - Live Performance by George Georgiou (CY)
Maria Anastassiou has been making a film with her mother, who was internally displaced after the 1974 war in Cyprus. Her mother started collecting interviews with her own mother from the 90's onwards, conversations mainly of ethnographic detail about their occupied village. Anastassiou has used these intergenerational female narrators as a starting point to explore her family's narrative of displacement and, in extent, wider questions about inherited trauma and post-memory.
No Place Like Home by Jez Dolan (UK) and Micheal Betteridge (UK)
Throughout time and place gay people have been, due to their identity, driven from their original homes and places they come from, often to pursue safer places seeking acceptance in new Homes. This project aims to explore histories of gay displacements through interviews and available data which then will inspire new sonic/visual short film with poetic nuances to further help its audience understand peoples’ desires and fundamental need for a sense of home and belonging. Supported by LEGATO Network of European Queer choirs and inspired by letters of home by members of the only active queer choir in Ukraine, Midnight Decant.
Liminality by Reykjavík Ensemble, Pálína Jónsdóttir (IS), Ewa Marcinek (PL/IS), Martyna Daniel (PL/IS) and Halldór Smárason (IS)
Liminality is an art short exploring a sense of belonging in an alienating landscape. Explored through visions of an emigrating Polish Woman finding herself between two worlds of being. Desires of past and future intertwined in real and imagined nature.