The Icelandic Love Corporation:
Black Swan Theory in Tasmania
The artist trio ILC (Icelandic Love Corporation) have worked together since 1996 and are well known for their exhibitions and, perhaps especially, performances. Their work as taken them around Europe and to America but now they have ventured about as far as one can get from Iceland, to the island of Tasmania, off the southern coast of Australia. There they performed and exhibited at the Contemporary Art Services in North Hobart.
The organisers describe the event as follows: The ILC aim to
break down the distance between art
and audience through participatory
events. For Ten Days the event is
a humorous ‘happening’ based
on diverse notions of hospitality
and Black Swan Theory with the
residue of the Collective’s event/
performance transforming into an
installation.
Black Swan Theory is about events
that have low predictability and
high consequence – events that
seem to happen out of the blue
but afterwards we realise that we
should have seen them coming,
prompting us to rewrite the past
to accommodate our blindness. In
Denmark black swans can be shot in
order to protect the white swans and
keep them clean. What does this say
about hospitality?
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