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Praxis, sviðslistaþing Listaháskóla Íslands, verður haldið í annað sinn laugardaginn 29. mars 2025. Þingið er vettvangur fyrir listrænar tilraunir, þekkingarsköpun og samtal milli fagvettvangsins og háskólasamfélagsins. Þannig er þingið staður fyrir sviðslistasenuna til að koma saman og deila aðferðum, rannsóknum, og hugsa saman til framtíðar. 

PRAXIS 2025

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Praxis, sviðslistaþing Listaháskóla Íslands, verður haldið í annað sinn laugardaginn 29. mars 2025. Þingið er vettvangur fyrir listrænar tilraunir, þekkingarsköpun og samtal milli fagvettvangsins og háskólasamfélagsins. Þannig er þingið staður fyrir sviðslistasenuna til að koma saman og deila aðferðum, rannsóknum, og hugsa saman til framtíðar.

Þema Praxis 2025 er Leikstjórar um leikstjórn – Hvað / Hvernig / Af hverju. Aðalfyrirlesari þingsins er Saana Lavaste, prófessor í leikstjórn við Uniarts Helsinki en yfirskrift erindis hennar er Að skapa þriggja stiga kringumstæður: Sviðið, sýningin og æfingaferlið.

Þingið hefst á opnun og kynningu á Rauða Torginu á fyrstu hæð LHÍ Laugarnesi og hefst dagskráin í kjölfarið. Hver viðburður tekur 45 mínútur og er gert ráð fyrir stuttum hléum á milli. Boðið verður upp á kaffi og léttar veitingar.

Praxis er haldið í húsnæði Listaháskóla Íslands að Laugarnesvegi 91, 105 Reykjavík. Ókeypis aðgangur og öll hjartanlega velkomin. SKRÁNING HÉR.
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Dagskrá:

11:30-12:00 – Opnun og kaffi/spjall

Fyrirlestrarsalur L193:
12:00-13:00 – Saana Lavaste – Creating the three-level situation: The scene, the performance and the production process
13:00-13:45 – Hallveig Kristín Eiríksdóttir – How Can We Play Together?
14:00-14:45 – Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir – Sjálfbæri leikstjórinn – hugað að tilvistarlegri sjálfbærni sviðslistafólks
15:00-15:45 – Kevin Kuhlke – When the How is the What in service of the Why
16:00-17:00 – Pallborð: Þarf ég að undirbúa mig? – Adolf Smári Unnarsson, Egill Pálsson, Gréta Kristín Ómarsdóttir, Saana Lavaste & Una Þorleifsdóttir.

17:00-17:30 – Lokun og kaffi/spjall


Praxis, Iceland University of the Arts’ Performing Arts Symposium, will be held for the second time Saturday March 29th, 2025. The symposium is a platform for artistic experiments, knowledge creation and dialogue between the performing arts scene and the academia. Thus, the symposium becomes a place for the Icelandic performing arts scene to come together, share methods and/or research, and look towards the future.

The theme of Praxis 2025 is Directors on Directing – What / How / Why. The keynote speaker of the symposium is Saana Lavaste, Professor of Directing at Uniarts Helsinki, whose talk is titled Creating the three-level situation: The scene, the performance and the production process.

The program begins with an opening on the Red Square on the first floor at IUA Laugarnes, after which the program begins. Each lecture is approximately 45 minutes, followed by a short break where coffee and light snacks will be served.

Praxis will take place at Iceland University of the Arts, Laugarnesvegur 91, 105 Reykjavík. Free admission and everyone is welcome. REGISTER HERE.

Schedule:

11:30-12:00 – Opening & coffee/talk

Lecture hall L193:
12:00-13:00 – Saana Lavaste – Creating the three-level situation: The scene, the performance and the production process
13:00-13:45 – Hallveig Kristín Eiríksdóttir – How Can We Play Together?
14:00-14:45 – Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir – The Sustainable Director – Considering Existential Sustainability in the Performing Arts
15:00-15:45 – Kevin Kuhlke – When the How is the What in service of the Why
16:00-17:00 – Panel: Do I need to be prepared? – Adolf Smári Unnarsson, Egill Pálsson, Gréta Kristín Ómarsdóttir, Saana Lavaste & Una Þorleifsdóttir.

17:00-17:30 – Closing & coffee/talk

  • Creating the three-level situation: The scene, the performance and the production process

    Saana Lavaste

    Saana Lavaste, prófessor í leikstjórn við Uniarts, Helsinki, er aðalfyrirlesari Praxis 2025. Erindi hennar, sem ber heitið Að skapa þriggja stiga kringumstæður: Sviðið, sýningin og æfingaferlið, gengur út frá þeirri hugmynd að starf leikstjórans sé að skilgreina aðstæður sem upphafspunkt fyrir listrænt ferli vinnuhóps. 

    Ef dramatískar aðstæður eru skilgreindar út frá spurningunum sex (Hver, Hvað, Hvar, Hvenær, Hvernig og Hvers vegna), hvernig svarar leikstjórinn þessum spurningum á þremur mismunandi stigum verksins? 

    Hvernig gæti sama listræna sýnin verið túlkuð á öllum þremur stigum, sem og í framleiðsluferlinu? 

    Hvernig breytist starf leikstjórans ef maður færir megináherslu verksins frá einu stigi (t.d. sviðinu) yfir á annað (t.d. framleiðsluferlið)? 

    Hvernig verða spurningar um þemu og viðfangsefni að veruleika á þessum mismunandi stigum? 

    Og að lokum, hvernig birtist forysta leikstjórans á þessum mismunandi stigum? 

     

    Saana Lavaste, professor of directing at Uniarts, Helsinki, is the keynote speaker of Praxis 2025. Her talk, titled Creating the three-level situation: The scene, the performance and the production process, starts from the idea that the work of the director is to define a situation as a starting point for the artistic process of the working group.   

    If a dramatic situation is defined by the six questions (Who, What, Where, When, How and Why), how does the director answer these questions in three different levels of the work? 

    How could the same artistic vision be expressed on all three levels, as well as on the level of the production process? 

    How does the work of the director change if one shifts the main focus of the work from one level (f.x. the scene) to another (f.x. the production process)?    

    How do questions of theme and subject matter actualize in these different levels?   

    And finally, how does the director’s leadership manifest in these different levels? 

  • How Can We Play Together?

    Hallveig Kristín Eiríksdóttir

    Leikstjórinn og sviðshöfundurinn Hallveig Kristín Eiríksdóttir flytur erindi byggt á meistararitgerð sinni í leikstjórn frá Uniarts, Helsinki, sem fjallar um hvernig megi fara að því að setja upp samsköpunarleikverk innan leikhússtofnana svo vel takist til. 

    Ritgerðin er tilraun til að skilgreina hverju sé hægt að hlúa að þegar samsköpunarverk eru sviðsett, með áherslu á ábyrgð leikstjóra, leikara og leikhússtjóra, og að finna hvar þessir þrír aðilar geti mæst þrátt fyrir ólíkar þarfir. Hallveig kannar hvaða skref hver aðili getur tekið í átt að miðjunni, í von um að skilgreina betur hver miðjan er og hver miðjan getur verið; með sérstakri áherslu á ábyrgð leikstjórans í ferlinu. Í ljósi fenginnar reynslu frá hennar eigin samsköpunarverki í Åbo Svenska Teater haustið 2024 og í bland við viðtöl við ýmsa listamenn, reynir Hallveig að stíga einu skrefi nær því að normalísera sköpunarferli sem ekki byggja á texta innan stofnanaleikhúsa, og skapa meira rými fyrir hið óhefðbundna, óþekkta og ólínulega á okkar best fjármögnuðu sviðum. 

     

    Director and performance maker Hallveig Kristín Eiríksdóttir will do a presentation based on her MA thesis in Directing from Uniarts, Helsinki, which discusses how to successfully stage devised performances within theatre institutions. 

    The thesis is an attempt to define what can be fostered when aiming to stage devised performances, with a focus on the responsibilities of the director, actors and theatre manager, and to find where these three parties can meet despite their different needs. Hallveig explores what steps each party can take towards the middle-ground, in the hope of also defining what the middle-ground is and what it can be; with a special emphasis on the director’s responsibility in the process. Drawing on lessons from her own devised performance at Åbo Svenska Teater in the fall of 2024, in combination with interviews with various artists, Hallveig attempts to take one step closer to normalizing non-textual creative processes within institutional theatres, and to create more space for the unconventional, the unknown and the nonlinear in our best-funded stages. 

  • When the How is the What in service of the Why

    Kevin Kuhlke

    Vinsældir póstdramatísks leikhúss náðu ef til vill hámarki sínu undir lok 20. aldar, en það hefur haft varanleg áhrif á nútíma leiklistaraðferðir. Síðustu 25 ár hafa verið gerðar ótal uppfærslur á hefðbundnu leikhúsi sem leikstýrt hefur með póstdramatískum aðferðum. Þetta eru sýningar þar sem dramatísk frásögn leikrits er sjáanleg en tilheyrir listrænum ramma sem hefur sínar eigin ólínulegu leikreglur sem eru einnig sjáanlegar. Í erindinu notar leikstjórinn og prófessorinn Kevin Kuhlke sína eigin uppfærslu á leikriti Helene Cixous, Drums on the Dam, til að kanna hvernig skapandi nálgun á milli hefðbundins og póstdramatísks leikhúss gæti látið uppfærslu eiga erindi við nútímaáhorfendur. Fjallað verður um textagreiningu, hugmyndafræðilegan undirbúning, dramatúrgískar rannsóknir og menningarleg sjónarmið. Í erindinu verður einnig fjallað um tengsl póstdramatísks leikhúss og póstmódernisma almennt. Auk þess verða tekin dæmi um samþætt æfingaferli sem styður við handritagreiningu og sviðsetningu með notkun ýmissa sálfræðilegra aðferða sem hjálpa leikurum að taka fullan þátt í póstmódernískri útgáfu af virkri greiningu Knebels og Stanislavskis. 

     

    The popularity of post-dramatic theater may have reached its peak towards the end of the 20th century, but it has had a lasting effect on contemporary theatre practice. The last 25 years have seen countless productions of dramatic theatre directed with a post-dramatic sensibility. These are productions in which a play’s dramatic narrative is present and comprehensible but resides inside an artistic frame that has its own non-narrative performative rules that are also present and comprehensible. This talk will use my production of Helene Cixous’ play Drums on the Dam to examine how a creative rapprochement between dramatic and post-dramatic theatre might enhance the attempt to make a production relevant for a contemporary audience. Topics covered will include text analysis, conceptual preparation, dramaturgical research and cultural considerations. The presentation will touch on the link between post-dramatic theatre and postmodernism in general. It will also give examples of an integrated rehearsal process that augments detailed script analysis and stage composition with the use of various psycho-physical techniques to help actors fully engage in a post-modern version of Knebel’s/Stanislavski’s Active Analysis. 

  • Sjálfbæri leikstjórinn – hugað að tilvistarlegri sjálfbærni sviðslistafólks

    Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir

    Í þessu erindi er hlutverk „leikstjórans“ skoðað út frá nýju sjónarhorni þar sem áhersla er lögð á tilvistarlega sjálfbærni í skapandi ferli sviðslista. Rýnt er í hugmyndina um leikstjórann innan mismunandi tegunda sviðslista; á sviði, utan sviðs, með og án þátttöku leikara, með þátttöku áhorfenda. Reynt er að endurskilgreina hlutverk leikstjórans í samhengi sem kallar á aukna meðvitund um jafnvægi milli listrænna, félagslegra og persónulegra þátta. 

    Tilvistalega sjálfbær sviðslist snýst ekki aðeins um að viðhalda orku og sköpunargleði listamanna og annarra þátttakenda, heldur einnig um að rýna í valdastrúktúra og samstarfsform sviðslistanna. Hverju stýrir leikstjórinn? Hver er siðferðileg ábyrgð leikstjórans? Hvernig má hugsa listsköpun sem ferli sem nærir listamenn og aðra þátttakendur jafnframt því að vera kraftmikið og gefandi fyrir gesti? 

    Erindið byggir á listrannsókninni „Hversu lítið er nóg?“ sem var unnin var við leiklistarakademíuna í Malmö og dregur fram mögulegar leiðir til að þróa aðferðir sem styrkja tilvistalega sjálfbærni í hlutverki leikstjórans. Markmiðið er að skapa umræðu um hvernig nýjar nálganir geta aukið meðvitund um siðferðilega ábyrgð og stutt við tilvistarlega sjálfbært starfsumhverfi sviðslistafólks. 

     

    The Sustainable Director – Considering Existential Sustainability in the Performing Arts 

    This talk explores the role of the director from a new perspective, emphasizing existential sustainability in the creative process of performing arts. It examines the concept of the director across different forms of performance—on stage, off stage, with and without actors, and with audience participation—seeking to redefine the role in a context that calls for greater awareness of the balance between artistic, social, and personal dimensions. 

    Existentially sustainable performance-making is not only about maintaining the energy and creative drive of artists and participants but also about critically examining power structures and collaborative models in the performing arts. What does the director control? What is their ethical responsibility? How can artistic creation be understood as a process that nourishes artists and collaborators while also being engaging and impactful for audiences? 

    The talk is based on the artistic research project How Little Is Enough? conducted at Malmö Theatre Academy and presents possible approaches for developing methods that support existential sustainability in directing. The aim is to foster discussion on how new perspectives can enhance awareness of ethical responsibility and contribute to a more sustainable working environment for performing artists. 

  • Pallborð: Þarf ég að undirbúa mig? // Do I need to be prepared?

    Leikstjórarnir Una Þorleifsdóttir og Gréta Kristín Ómarsdóttir halda pallborð um leikstjórn undir yfirskriftinni Þarf ég að undirbúa mig? Rýnt verður í ólíkar aðferðir við forvinnu og undirbúning leikstjórans og samspil flæðis og skipulags. 

    Gestir: Adolf Smári Unnarsson, Egill Pálsson & Saana Lavaste.

     

    Directors Una Þorleifsdóttir and Gréta Kristín Ómarsdóttir will host a panel discussion on directing titled Do I need to prepare? They will explore different methods of pre-production and directorial preparation, and the dialogue between the performing arts scene and the academia.

    Guests: Adolf Smári Unnarsson, Egill Pálsson & Saana Lavaste.

FYRRI PRAXIS

  • Praxis 2023

    Praxis er árlegt sviðslistaþing Listaháskóla Íslands. Þingið er vettvangur fyrir listrænar tilraunir, þekkingarsköpun og samtal milli fagvettvangsins og háskólasamfélagsins. Þannig er þingið staður fyrir sviðslistasenuna til að koma saman og deila aðferðum og/eða rannsóknum, og hugsa saman til framtíðar.
    Fyrsta þingið verður haldið laugardaginn 16. september 2023 í húsnæði Listaháskóla Íslands við Laugarnesveg 91, 105 Reykjavík.
    Þingið hefst á opnun og kynningu á Rauða Torginu á fyrstu hæð og í kjölfarið fer dagskráin af stað. Hver viðburður tekur 45 mínútur og er gert ráð fyrir stuttum hléum á milli. Boðið verður upp á kaffi og léttar veitingar.
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    SUND – innsýn í ferli

    – Birnir Jón Sigurðsson
    – 13:00-13:45 I Rými L142
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    Í fyrirlestri sínum fer Birnir Jón Sigurðsson yfir sköpunarferli sýningarinnar SUND sem er um þessar mundir til sýninga í Tjarnarbíói. Hann segir frá hvernig hugmyndin um verk þar sem leikmynd er í aðalhlutverki kviknaði og skipulagi æfinga sem miðuðu að því að skapa inn í heim sundlaugarinnar. Hann reifar kosti og galla samsköpunarferlisins, kenningar um mikilvægi æfinga í rými og galdrana og áskoranirnar sem felast í því að gera allt í belg og biðu í stað línulegrar sköpunar.
    *Viðburðurinn fer fram á íslensku.
    Birnir Jón Sigurðsson er sviðshöfundur, leikskáld og leikstjóri. Síðan hann útskrifaðist frá sviðshöfundabraut LHÍ 2019 hefur hann lagt áherslu á frumsköpun á sviði, ferli og tilraunamennsku. Hann er hluti samsköpunarleikhópanna CGFC og Ást og karókí sem settu upp verkin Kartöflur (tilnefnt sem leikrit ársins á Grímunni 2020) og Skattsvik Development Group. Hann skrifaði og framleiddi barnaóperuna Fuglabjargið 2021 og hefur skrifaði styttri verk fyrir útvarp og svið. Hann er starfandi leikskáld Borgarleikhússins og stofnandi Tóma rýmisins sem er vettvangur fyrir æfingar og tilraunir í sviðslistum.
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    The Art of Social Practice: Skills for Making Multi-Disciplinary Work in Community

    – Mary Bitel
    – 13:00-13:45 I Rými L193
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    My lecture will focus on concepts and skills that are fundamental to entering into and engaging communities in a creative process of individual and collective meaning: identifying a composition/community with which to build a project; identifying the need and purpose for a group project before facilitating a group through its stages of group development; conflict exploration and collective, creative problem solving; building a system of mutual aid and the role that empathy plays in the building of creative projects; balancing the need for inclusive group process with the need for timely task completion and producing creative work of artistic merit while supporting development of a productive group experience.
    *The lecture will be held in English.
    Dr. Bitel is an Associate Arts Professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she created and launched the Collaborative Arts BFA, a multi- and interdisciplinary program for undergraduate arts students. She is Associate Director of NYU’s International Theatre Workshop, Amsterdam, a Co-Director of Arts & Health @ NYU, and Director of the Tisch Arts & Health Project. Dr. Bitel teaches courses in advanced acting, Shakespeare, and the integration of multi-disciplinary art forms with community-based arts practice. She produces and facilitates community collaborations between Tisch arts students and local public-school children and is a consulting editor for the journal Social Work with Groups. Dr. Bitel is a licensed clinical social worker, a member of the professional stage actors’ union – Actors Equity Association, and the International Association of Social Work with Groups.
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    Þjóðleikhúsið – Taktu flugið, beibí!

    – Kolbrún Dögg Kristjánsdóttir og Ilmur Stefánsdóttir
    – 14:00-14:45 I Black Box L223
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    Kolbrún Dögg flytur valda kafla úr verkinu Taktu Flugið Beibí sem fjallar um lífshlaup Kolbrúnar. Verkið verður sett upp haust 2024 í Þjóðleikhúsinu og mun hún leika sig í sýningunni. Stúlka með stóra framtíðardrauma áttar sig á því að eitthvað er að koma fyrir hana, líkami hennar missir smátt og smátt máttin og hún þarf að takast á við miklar áskoranir til að láta drauma sína rætast. Kolbrún og Ilmur segja stuttlega frá fyrirhugaðri uppfærslu verksins í Þjóðleikhúsinu og svara spurningum.
    *Viðburðurinn fer fram á íslensku.
    Kolbrún Dögg er útskrifuð af Sviðshöfundabraut LHí og stundar um þessar mundir nám við ritlist í Háskóla Íslands sem hún hyggst ljúka vor 2024. Hún hefur tekið þátt í fjölda gjörninga og uppistands viðburðum. Taktu Flugið Beibí er fyrsta verk Kolbrúnar sem Þjóðleikhúsið kaupir af henni og verður sett upp haust 2024. Ilmur útskrifaðist sem myndlistarkona frá MHÍ og lauk Mastersgráðu í Myndlist frá Goldsmiths College. Hún hefur sýnt myndlist sína og gert fjölda gjörninga hérlendis og erlendis. Hún hefur starfað í leikhúsi um áratuga skeið og er nú starfandi Leikmyndahöfundur og Listrænn stjórnandi við Þjóðleikhúsið.
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    Embodiment Toolbox

    – Felix Urbina Alejandre
    – 14:00-14:45 I Rými L220
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    „Embodiment toolbox“ is a workshop aimed to share different creative approaches towards the exploration of movement and performativity.
    In the workshop we will explore Imagery, free association and somatic exploration focusing on the activitation of your personal physical imaginary archive.
    The main goal is to invite the participants to find useful techniques to tap on their free flow of imagination , ground it in the body and find ways to bring it into movement/performativity.
    The strategies explored in this workshop in are part of an ongoing choreographic/performative practice focused on images, and „sensorial intuition“ as a creative generator.
    *Please bring comfortable/training clothes, a notebook and writing material.
    *Max 15 participants.
    *The workshop will be held in English.
    Felix Urbina Alejandre is a Mexican dancer and performer.
    He completed his dance education at SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance), and has been a member of Iceland Dance Company since 2018.
    From 2017 to 2018 he was also part of SEAD Bodhi Project, performing in different venues and festivals worldwide.
    Felix actively collaborates in different artistic projects in Iceland and abroad, and has facilitated different workshops all throughout his career.
    As an artist he grounds his practice within a decolonial, queer and emancipatory perspective; his wish is to offer reflections regarding imagination, embodiment, and the radical political implications of the performing body.
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    Art + Rural: an introduction to artist-led rural rejuvenation

    – Greta Clough
    – 14:00-14:45 I Rými Finnland
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    Rural arts are a major area of interest to the European Union, whose policymakers understand that if art does indeed matter, it matters everywhere. Incorporating professional arts into rural rejuvenation strategies leads to sustainable growth, fostering a symbiotic relationship between culture and economics. Rural areas can undergo a renaissance that enhances their artistic ecosystem, positioning them prominently on the national and international arts map. The notion that arts and the countryside share an intertwined destiny is not an idealistic vision, but a compelling reality waiting to be fully embraced. Yet, the challenges loom large. This seminar addresses those challenges, highlighting opportunities for further growth.
    *The lecture will be held in English.
    Greta Clough is the artistic director of Handbendi Brúðuleikhús and the Hvammstangi International Puppetry Festival in Iceland. Greta is an award- winning international performer, director, and playwright. She is the former Associate Artist of Little Angel Theatre, and has over a decade of experience creating and touring original theatre productions around the world. She trained
    as an actor and theatre creator in London where she worked in theatre, radio, and recorded media for many years before moving to Iceland. She is the president of UNIMA Iceland, the national centre for the international network of puppeteers.

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    Sentience, Sentences, & Sentiment: Sensing Deep-Ocean Sediment through Artistic Practice

    – Dr. Angela Rawlings and José Luis Anderson
    – 15:00-15:45 I Rými L193
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    Sentience, Sentences, & Sentiment: Sensing Deep-Ocean Sediment through Artistic Practice explores ecological attunement and the role of language in perceiving the more-than-human—specifically the deep-ocean ecosystems facing potential carbon sequestration, ocean acidification, global heating, and eutrophication. The article unfolds an artist’s account of process for kór (core), a slow installation featuring a deep-ocean sediment core extracted between Greenland and Iceland during a 2021 science research cruise. In Icelandic, kór means choir or chorus; it is pronounced similarly to the English-language core. The article features video aboard the research vessel, conceptual documentation of the resulting artwork, participant interviews, and an aria composed by José Luis Anderson (Andervel) through the installation.
    *The lecture will be held in English.
    Dr. Angela Rawlings is a Canadian-Icelandic interdisciplinary artist-researcher who works with languages as dominant exploratory material. rawlings’ books include Wide slumber for lepidopterists (Coach House Books, 2006), Gibber (online, 2012), o w n (CUE BOOKS, 2015), si tu (MaMa Multimedijalni Institut, 2017), and Sound of Mull (Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, 2019). In 2022, rawlings co-curated SPHERE Festival for the Canadian National Arts Centre’s Orchestra in partnership with the Canadian Museum of Nature, Royal Danish Library, and Nordic Bridges. They teach at the Iceland University of the Arts.
    Andervel is the music project of singer-songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist musician José Luis Anderson. Born and raised in Mexico, Anderson currently lives in Iceland. Anderson graduated with a bachelor’s degree in classical singing in his native Mexico and later relocated to Iceland, where he completed a master’s degree in Music and a second degree in New Media composition at the Icelandic University of the Arts (Listaháskólí Íslands). In recent years, Andervel has ventured into fields such as musical composition, film scoring, sound design, sound for art exhibitions, poetry, songwriting and visual media design. On the other hand, Andervel is a passionate advocate for international communities and minority representation.
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    Why we bow: self-awareness for social justice

    – Gréta Kristín Ómarsdóttir
    – 15:00-15:45 I Rými L142
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    Excerpts from a master thesis: Gréta’s thesis builds on the premise that performing arts are ideological representations of democracy that continuously part-take in creating our social structures, it examines how critical self-awareness is key to leading artistic processes and institutions. How can theatre create a more just society? The thesis is in three parts: First an autotheory on social background and a personal relationship to performing arts that form core values of an artist and a leader. Then, case studies on core values in the directors craft and vulnerability as a leadership skill. Lastly, self-knowledge is explored in relation to institutional values and operations in a larger political context.
    *The lecture will be held in English.
    Gréta Kristín Ómarsdóttir graduated with a BA degree in Theatre and performance making from IUA in 2016 and an MA degree in Directing from the Uniarts Helsinki in 2023. Her prior studies include Comparative Literature and Gender studies at the University of Iceland. Gréta has worked professionally in the performing arts field since 2016 and directed works in most performing arts institutions in Iceland and independently. 2020-2023 Gréta was artistic director of Þjóðleikhúskjallarinn and Loftið at The National Theatre of Iceland, where she emphasised proactive programming for access and inclusion of marginalised people and art forms. Gréta has been a lecturer at IUA since 2017 and has developed courses for gender and queer criticism along with mentoring thesis work, teaching post-dramatic theory and new writing. Gréta is now the program director for Theatre and performance making at IUA.
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    Bodies without Borders: Queerly Performing Israeli Citizenship

    – Dr. Yarden Stern
    – 16:00-16:45 I Black Box L223
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    „Bodies without Borders: Queerly Performing Israeli Citizenship“, is a multimedia exploration of various queer, Israeli artists and their relation and complication of of borders and citizenship in lieu of the ongoing occupation of Palestine. I ask, how are queer Israeli subjects performing the entanglements of Israeli identity with Israeli settler-colonial violence? Using the frameworks of queer and posthuman theories, this lecture aims to recast the ongoing Israeli occupation in terms of a spatial, corporeal, and affective assemblage; and advances the theoretical concept of the Body without Borders (BwB) to describe a resistive flow of creative energies that retools and reconfigures the incessant bordering methods of the Israeli state.
    *The lecture will be held in English.
    Dr. Yarden Stern is an independent curator and post-doctorate fellow at the Gender Studies Department at the University of Tel Aviv. He received his Doctoral degree from the department of Performance Studies at New York university. His work revolves around the politics of gender non-conformity as they intersect with discourses of nationalism, borders and their manifestation and contemporary queer performance. He has been published in academic journals such as The Drama Review, women & performance, Spectator & PRTCLS.
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