Join us for Iceland. Mobility, Spatiality, Virtuality//

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Join us on the 22nd for Iceland. Mobility, Spatiality, Virtuality. Find more information here>> get tickets here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/iceland-mobility-spatiality-virtuality-tickets-155597599609 and see time table for the day below.

Timetable: Iceland. Mobility, Spatiality, Virtuality. Defining new touristic relationships through remote encounters, distant desires and embodied experiences.

* Papers will be approx twenty mins in length, and Artist Presentations are between 5-10 mins long. We will aim to stick to the time table. Please note the event will be running to UK time.

Plan for the day:

First Session.

11am – Welcome: Jen Southern of LICA and Cemore.

11.10 - Introductory paper Gudrun Filipska : The near and far and the fast and slow, the complications and ethical entanglements of artists' travel experiences. On foot, by flight and at sea.

11.20 - Valentina Schulte- Artist Presentation: Nattsol: The Resignation of Night

11.30 - Kirsty Palmer - Artist Presentation.

11.40 - Kaya Barry - PAPER : Artists not tourists; residents, or maybe migrants? Tensions of international artistic mobility and tourism cultures.

12.00 - Break 

Second Session.

12.10 - Caroline Kelley - PAPER: Souvenirs of Iceland.

12.30 - Grace Hailstone -  Artist Presentation :Between imagination and reality: Embodied experiences and transcending the landscape

12.40 - Carly Butler- PAPER: Skirting around Reykyavik. Notes on a journey across Iceland. 

1pm - Aki Poon - Artist Presentation.

1.10 - Holly Chang - Artist Presentation: How to Disappear when No one is Looking.

1.20 - Thomas Chen - PAPER.

1.40 - Alison Shields - Artist's Presentation.

1.50 Sophia Sæmundsdóttir – Artist Presentation: Places in progress – A different view.

2.00 pm Lunch - listen in to a conversation between Rhona Eve Clews (artist) and Alex Knight (DJ and record producer) about the Icelandic Music scene.

Third Session.

2.30 - Keynote Jessica Auer – Keynote PAPER: Looking North.

3.00 - Matthias Egeler – PAPER: Seeing Iceland differently: towards a typology of travellers.

3.20 - Taey Lohe – PAPER.

3.40 - Karen Stentaford - Artist Presentation: The portable darkroom: wet plate collodion in never ending daylight.

3.50 - Jay Simpson and Henri Fletcher – PAPER: Cairns in the Westfjords.

4.10 - discussion and quick tea break .

Fourth Session. Chaired by Jen Southern.

4.20pm - Kristen Mallia - PAPER.

4.30 - Katie Craney and Morag Patterson - Artist Presentation.

4.40 - Kathleen Vaughn – PAPER: Imagining Iceland, Again: Re-Conceptualizing Responsible, Reciprocal Visitorship for Post- Pandemic Encounters:

5pm - Amy Tavern - Artist Presentation: This Place Gives Me Room.

5.10 - Matt Williams – PAPER: Practice: Absence and Distance.

5.30 - Rhona Eve Clews and Berglind Hreiðarsdóttir– Expanded Artist Presentation: Opening to the Other.

5.55 - Questions, thoughts and discussion led by India Boxall.

6.10 - General discussion and drinks.

Approx 6.30 pm - Gudrun Filipska closing comments and thanks.