The Dionysia residency programme launched as THE most exciting art event of the summer 2007. This year we did it again and this time ended it by a succesful EVENT OF SURPRISES on the main street in Reykjavik city center. It consisted of works in progress, video documentation, props and objects plus live performances. The outcome of the 10 days prior.
APPLICATION DEADLINE for the year 2009 will be advertised later this year. Currently we are taking it easy.
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WHAT:
Dionysia is a unique residency taking place in small villages in the Icelandic countryside. Artists and scholars of all genres are given the opportunity to work together across genre boundaries and with the local talents.
WHERE:
In 2007 we were in Hafnir, Grundarfjordur, Bolungarvik, Djupavik a Strondum, Siglufjordur, Hofsos, Borgarfjordur eystri and Stodvarfjordur. This year we were in Borgarfjordur eystri and Hofsos again and also new places Vogar and Dalvik/Svarfadardalur.
WHEN:
10 days from the 9th to the 19th of 2007 and 10 days from 21st to the 30th of May 2008. Next year we are planning to keep the dates 21st to the 30th of May.
WHY:
We want to break down boundaries that have been created in our minds between:
City and countryside, different art genres, the scholarly and the art world, the art world and the rest of the world. We are looking for interesting experiences that inspire, push and that can grow.
WHO:
Last year 37 artists from music, visual art, design and performance art participated but also young people from the scholarly world. THIS YEAR around 27 individuals took part. It is a nice mix of professionals and people still finishing their degrees from all genres of the arts.
If you have any questions send us a line at:
dionysia.2007@gmail.com
Dionysia is a platform that gives unique access where you take responsibility in your designated location to take initiative in mobilizing people to collaborate and work with you on projects.
INTERESTED YET?
Artists will be working on projects and hosting art happenings in obscure places in the countryside of Iceland in conjunction with the indigenous in each place. This project is all about breaking down boundaries of all sorts; boundaries between city and countryside, between different genres and worlds, an those that dwell within, and first and foremost we aim to explore new sides of ourselves, seeing how far we can stretch our artistic abilities to new directions!
The curators of the DIONYSIA project hope to gain new audience to our artists’ works as well as get to know the Icelandic countryside in a different way than the normal tourist would. We have selected a few locations in the countryside with it in mind to go out of the usual tourist route in Iceland. Each place is chosen for its beauty, history or value of interest in some way.
The participating artists are divided into groups of five to seven people who dwell in their project town. The groups are mixed in such a way that there will hopefully be representatives for a wide selection of fields and genres of art (visual, acoustic, design, theatre...). They will collaborate with each other and the local people to make some kind of an art project based on what the situation, the town and surroundings have to offer. We would like to leave each location with a sense of having contributed something to the town and the locals, and hopefully vice-versa.
The project is designed and organized by visual artist/filmmaker Hulda Ros Gudnadottir aka. Spiderspoon. This year fashion designer Arna Sigrun Haraldsdottir, visual artist Eva Ísleifsdóttir and singer Solbjorg Bjornsdottir made up an organizational committee. Dionysia is planning to publish a book with visual and text material from the residencies in collaboration with ReykjavikurAkademian - a community of scholars (www.akademia.is), the research department of Icelandic Academy of the Arts (www.lhi.is) and Nyhil publishing house.
Participants in the DIONYSIA project will be required to be open-minded, bold, brave, curious, enthusiastic and prepared to do something new and exciting!
We remind you that DIONYSIA is a low-funded grassroot phenomenon and we don't have the staff to assist participants with VISA applications. We send you a letter of invitation and the rest is up to you.
Any comments, suggestions, ideas or questions are very welcome.
Anyone interested in supporting the project.
Please drop us a line!
dionysia.2007@gmail.com
(Being a Myspace friend of DIONYSIA does not automatically make you a participant. In the same sense, top 40 Myspace friends of DIONYSIA are not necessarily participants of the project. DIONYSIA reserves the right to make any changes to the plan or program. This profile does not necessarily reflect the final outcome of the project as a whole. Thank you.)
Party Zone, Jón Jónsson og Egils Lite kynna:
Heimsmeistarakeppni í Techno á Nasa Laugardaginn 19. Janúar
Þjóðverjar tefla fram sínum dulræna en taktfasta MARC ROMBOY sem hefur
verið talinn mjög sigurstranglegur og situr í af einum efstu sætum
heimslistans þessa dagana.
Svíar senda sinn sterkasta mann sjálfann fyrirliðann TOMAS ANDERSON
sem kemur til með að beyta brögðum eins og að spila LIVE og vera með
hressu strákana í SUPERDISKANT á köntunum og þá, dömur mínar og
herrar......... getur allt gerst.
Íslendingar munu taka þátt fyrir hönd smáþjóða og senda til leiks DJ
CASANOVA og SEXY LAzER en þeir koma fram saman undir einni sæng og það
hefur aldrei sést reynt fyrr svo hver veit hvað það ber í skauti sér?
Háttvirtir Techno víkingar og áhugamenn/konur, ekki láta deigan síga,
komið og dansið til sigurs 19. Janúar á Nasa ólympíu leikvanginum við
Austurvöll
Fréttatilkynningin á
www.pz.is
Kynningarsyrpa með lögum Marc Romboy Smellið hér
Nu er bara að telja dagana fram að þessari yndislegu geðveiki. Endilega
tryggið ykkur miða á www.midi.is. Miðaverðið er 1900 kr í fo
Algerlega...eftir að verslunum lokar á laugardagskvöld kl 22..... þá byrjum við gleðina, svo mikla að það jaðrar við dónaskap. Fyrsta föndur kvöldins verður hið yfirmáta unggæðingslega og hressa Jazzband. Síðan taka föndurstjórar kvöldsins við uppúr miðnætti, þeir Már og Nielsen, en þeir hyggjast taka borgina með trompi nú yfir hátíðarnar. Ef stuðið og delafílingurinn fer allveg með ykkur á neðri hæðinni þá skuluð þið einu sinni ekki hætta ykkur á efri hæðina því þar verður DJ dúettinn FKNHNDSM með föndurgjörning sem þeir kjósa að kalla "ÚJE í öðru". Jólaföndur kvenfélags Barsins hefur aldrei verið vígalegra. Öll föndurgögn verða á staðnum :) Sjáumst.
