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Reinventing Harbour Cities:
An International Conference in Reykjavík
With guests including Vito Acconci and Ólafur Elíasson, the conference highlights the issues of urban planning and public art in cities on the sea.

Christian Schoen:
Icelandic Culture Showcased in Brussels:
One of the largest festivals of Icelandic art and culture ever mounted abroad is underway in Belgian capital..

Shauna Laurel Jones:
Magic in the Machine
Pyrotechnics in the Art of Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir.

Jón Proppé:
Sigurður Árni Sigurðsson
Much of Sigurður Árni’s early work seemed to aim at reducing the world to two dimensions but his paintings are in fact a subtle revorking of our notions of perspective and spatiality.

Christian Schoen:
Húbert Nói: The Alchemist
Interview with the artist Húbert Nói Jóhannesson.

Dark Science in Berlin:
Finnbogi Pétursson and Darri Lorenzen

Dark Science, curated by Carson Chan, folds together work that probes our various cultural understandings of science. Combining themes, tropes and images from the diverse field that we refer to as science (social science, science-fiction, pseudo-science and popular science), the exhibition confronts the visitor with an experience that is both tightly calculated and flagrantly arbitrary.

This group exhibition (including Via Lewandowsky, Eva Grubinger, Gordon Terry, Michel deBroin and others), opening in conjunction with the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, presents work that intentionally blurs any precise usage of what is meant by science. Blurring, here, is taken to be the retrograde process that mystifies and confuses our faith in empirical knowledge, and in so doing, breaks down scientific systems into alchemy – a system regulated as much by logic as it is by the irrational, a framework open to freely creative undertaking.

Curators Without Borders
Brunnenstr. 5 – Berlin Mitte
April 3 - May 24

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Finnbogi Pétursson: Dream 2005. Finnbogi has worked for many years on poetic visualisations of sound. Carefully selecting tones, he has drawn, sculpted or created architectural spatialities in various ways. In Dream two sinus notes are produced in a darkened room. These tones unite in the middle of the room, generating a new kind of soundwaves, on the same frequency as the brainwaves that occur in a person who is daydreaming. With a bowl of water lit from underneath Pétursson paints the ceiling with a state of mind.

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