Stars ~ dedicated to mothers

About

Stars is a cubist poem made by multi dimensional, site specific, audio and video installation incorporating local performers and dancers. At the heart of the work are texts that the duo started writing in 2007 and are still writing. They create settings for realising these texts with actors (by way of advertising for neighbourhood stars in local papers). They record video-episodes in the installation that constantly grows in the process. To date they have collected around 30 videos. Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir and Kristà ­n à â€œmarsdóttir build the settings inside the exhibition space each time on location, in this case the Context Gallery. The settings take various forms of stages; a gallows, a harbour, a podium on wheels, swings, trees, etc. They locally collect costumes and various objects that correspond with the texts and become part of the exhibition as well. The videos, made on location each time are spread around the installation on monitors and projections. Kristà ­n and Gunnhildur have collaborated extensively since the year 2002 when they organized the performance Footbath in Reykjavà ­k. Stars is the third and final exhibition in a series of three previously showing My Gift, Your Excellency (Iceland, 2011) and Audition (Canada, 2008) in the same series. The project will be followed by a publication next year.