FJARÐARHEIÐI

Using field recordings, cottage-built electronics, analogue tape and feedback systems, Friz and Korabiewski perform live, accompanied by Friz’ monochrome two-channel photomontage. Together, Friz and Korabiewski craft pensive audiovisual landscapes, strongly influenced by the extreme oscillation between daylight and darkness characteristic of life over a year on the mountainous coast just below the Arctic Circle. Fjarðarheiði is taken from the name of the 25 km mountain pass which connects the village of Seyðisfjörður to the nearest town of Egilsstaðir in eastern Iceland. On this sometimes treacherous road, the visual and acoustic environments are transformed by dense fog and snow storms, effecting a perceptual flux between white-out and black-out which leaves only an aftergrain. If afterglow refers to the light or luminance left in the sky after sundown, aftergrain is the sonic and visual noise that remains when most other frequencies are subtracted. Anna Friz and Konrad Korabiewski steer the Iceland-based independent art collective Ska?lar | Sound Art | Experimental Music, based in Seyðisfjörður. Their recent works together bridging radio broadcast, performance and installation reflect upon geographic and communicative remoteness and the fragility of unstable human signals.

With the support of:
Skálar | Sound Art | Experimental Music
Canada Council for the Arts
Danish Composer's Society
Danish Arts Foundation
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