People. Moves. Places.

Describe your idea and concept of your work in relation to the festival outlines:

As a duo team consists of a video artist/filmmaker and a choreographer/theater director, we work towards to locate and unite the common voice between our vision and the subject matter that so attracts our attention.

We do not want to make any participant an object to be consumed by us for the making of our film. What we want is to collaborate and experiment together with them. We do our best to bond with each and every participating dancer by establishing mutual understanding on the rationale of the making of our film. To be specific, what we want to achieve is to create augmented experience for all participants, including ourselves.

What kind of communication approach do you use?

We strive to come up with a common language to communicate our findings with the audience through our film.

What are in your opinion concrete benefits to the society because of your communication?

The choice of whether or not to participate in any event – be it social, political or cultural in nature – is entirely autonomous decision for every person to make. We believe art offers people an option. Intended participant who chooses to take part in art event enlarges her/his chance to enjoy, encounter augmented experience if s/he treats Art as an opportunity.

What did you personally learn from creating your submitted work?

What we learned from the making of this work keeps us learning more about our art practice: When coining ‘Art as an opportunity’ problematic issues regarding artistic justice arise. When putting art in a social context, we wonder how do we ensure that there is a fair ground for all to access art as an opportunity? Are there organic ways to encourage participation? Would open-source authorship be an optimal approach for all art forms? Would artistic input be considered as an asset rather than just a tool when putting it in social context? From art advocates’ end, in what ways should ‘artistic insight’ be valued on a fair basis?

Why is your work, GOOD communication WORK?

As we really hope to learn about the specific socio-cultural characteristic of people who live in Siglufjörður, we asked them for letting us to visit their household/domestic/work spaces. By doing so we get the chance to examine, and to unfold how each of these personal spaces is being utilised as an un-staged ‘stage’ specifically.

Where and how do you intent do implement your work?

We are trying to send this work to international film festivals for generating public screenings.

Did your intervention had an effect on other Media. If yes, describe the effect? (Has other media reported on it- how? Were you able to change other media with your work- how?)

We have been sending this work to film festivals worldwide since early September. At this point, we're still waiting to hear back about selection results.