Crossing artistic boundaries, bringing together new visual and sonic ideas in combination with expressions in performance, this is the aim of Reykjavík’s new festival coming up in October 2006. Exhibitions, screenings, performances and concerts in a row will build the unique character of the “real time festival”. The festival’s subtitle does not only refer to the focus on “time-based art” but stresses the importance of experience and participate in it - life: You have to be in the buzzing city during October 13 – 28!

SEQUENCES emerged out of the art scene and is a low-budget festival which lives from the creative unfiltered energy of the artists in Iceland and their friends and lovers abroad. It will carry on the KlinK and BanK spirit of raw creativity and borderless cooperation, as it was formative for the past years of artistic output. About 150 projects of local and international artists and artist groups will form the festival including visual artists, musicians, actors and designers.

The classical art institutions will form the center of the program: the National Gallery will focus on Icelandic painting in the 80s, the time where pop and punk mainly influenced the artists. An overview of the contemporary Icelandic art will be visible at Reykjavík Art Museum in a show with the title “Apostle's Clubhouse”. Other institutions will mainly focus on single statements as the galleries i8, turpentine, 101 or Kling and Bang. The Living Art Museum will function as the Festival's center, hosting a group show and the opening party. The US gallery Boreas will bring Peter Finnemore to Iceland who represented Wales at the last Venice Biennial. But also smaller project spaces like Banananas or the Dwarf gallery will host interesting experimental projects.

A bunch of activities will circle around the institutions. Artists will invade public spaces, bars and shops. Performances and screenings will be connected to concerts partly during the famous Airwaves Festival, which will take place in the middle of SEQUENCES. Among the Icelandic artists participating are Ragnar Kjartansson, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir a.k.a. Shoplifter, Sara Björnsdóttir, Haraldur Jónsson or Egill Sæbjörnsson.

All activities will be framed by video and performance nights which will take place in a cosy theatre close by the pond. In cooperation with foreign curators, institutions and festival these “vp-nites” will give opportunity for a collective chilling.

The organizers are planning to have the festival an annual event and turning Reykjavik in October into a hot spot for the international art scene.

SEQUENCES real time festival reykjavík 2006

13-28.10.2006
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