Páll Haukur Björnsson (IS)
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This dumb region of the heart
Pick up
Friday 30th October, 22.00, Performance party @ House of Ideas
Wednesday 4th November, 18.00 @ SIM Seljavegur
Saturday 7th November, 20.00, Closing party @ Nordic House.
or order online by sending email to bill@pallhaukur.com
A 15-minute video loop will be played on two separate screens in the back seat of a car. Audience will be picked up, two at a time, and driven around while they watch the videos on the screens and listen to it through headphones. The video is a poetic abundance of sounds, words and images. It’s an ambiguous voyage to the ever-equivocal crossroads. It’s about going and it’s about returning, or not. It is an infinite loop with no certain beginning or end. People will enter at any given point and leave 15 minutes later, there for always seeing the whole loop. A young man will be driving the car and another one will company him in the other front seat. They will not interact with the audience in any other way than driving them around.
Páll Haukur Björnsson graduated with a BA degree in Fine Art in 2008 from The Icelandic Art Academy. He has collaborated with artist Ragnar Kjartansson in performance projects such as Weltchmertz, Volta Show, Basel in 2007 and is currently taking part in Kjartansson´s project The End (2009) for the Icelandic Pavilion at The Venice Biennale, Venice. Recent solo exhibitions include About a Narwhal, Gallery Ibiza Bunker and Reconstruct: what the hell happened?, Smátíma exhibition space. He has also taken part in various group exhibitions, performance- and music projects.