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Skoða vefinn á ÍslenskuAnnar gestur í fyrirlestraröð myndlistardeildar vorið 2025 er Adam Buffington. Fyrirlesturinn er opinn öllum og fer fram í fyrirlestrasal L193, Laugarnesi frá kl. 13:00 – 14:00. Fyrirlesturinn verður á ensku.
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Originally trained as a theatrical stage and costume designer, Magnús Pálsson (b. 1929) has cultivated a diverse oeuvre inhabiting the intersections of sculpture, book art, pedagogy, sound, performance and video. Considered one of the most influential proponents of interdisciplinary, Fluxus-adjacent practices in Iceland during the later twentieth century, Pálsson encouraged Icelandic artists to derive inspiration from their own vernacular experience, while also promoting transnational cross-collaboration, aiming to break Icelandic artists’ cultural isolation from the broader world. By tracing the multifaceted trajectory of his career, it becomes immediately apparent that Pálsson’s holistic methods of creativity are constituted not just by experimentation, interdisciplinarity, and transnational collaboration, but also by its accentuation of art’s capacity within everyday existence, accumulating in an ethos imbued with the endless possibilities of life.
Adam Buffington is a sound artist and musicologist traversing the boundaries between practitioner and scholar. Specializing in contemporary art and music in Iceland, as well as Fluxus and later 20th-century developments, his research focuses on issues concerning interdisciplinarity, transnationalism, historiography, and aesthetics.
His research has been published in Myndlist á Íslandi, Current Musicology and Artzine.is, and has been presented at the American Musicological Society, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Dark Music Days Festival (2025), Iceland University of the Arts and the Hartt School of Music. A close collaborator of interdisciplinary artist Magnús Pálsson, Buffington is currently the editor & senior writer of a comprehensive monograph on Pálsson’s oeuvre. The book’s projected publication date is autumn 2026.
Alongside visual artist Tumi Magnússon, Buffington is the co-founder of Mumbling Eye, an independent record label dedicated to the publication of rare and unreleased Icelandic sound art. Mumbling Eye’s releases Gapassipi and Enginn Gleypir Sólina (both sound installations by Pálsson) have been featured in I Care If You Listen, Medium, Bridge, and Scandinavian Studies, and have been broadcasted by Resonance FM (London, UK), Montez Press Radio (New York City, USA), RÚV (Reykjavik, Iceland) and Helsinki Open Waves (Helsinki, Finland), amongst others. Mumbling Eye’s next project is a vinyl LP of sound poetry by Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir to be released in 2025.
Buffington earned a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from The Ohio State University in 2020, and is currently based in Reykjavik, Iceland.