Iceland. Mobility, Spatiality, Virtuality.

(Arts) Territory Exchange

Iceland. Mobility, Spatiality, Virtuality. Defining new touristic relationships through remote encounters, distant desires and embodied experiences.A one day symposium organised by (Arts) Territory Exchange, Centre for Mobilities Research (Cemore) LICA, Lancaster University and Ströndin Studio, Seydisfjördur, Iceland. 22nd October 2021.///Iceland has long been considered a home for arts and cultural tourism. From WH Auden’s letters from Iceland, where British readers contemplated Iceland from a distance to the Artist Residency Industry which attracts thousands of artists from Europe, the US, Canada and elsewhere every year. This symposium will ask what it is about Iceland in particular that ignites such desire to travel and what has the travel hiatus meant for the touristic imagination? The symposium will investigate our desires as cultural producers, to touch, breathe and tread the Icelandic landscape and explore digital and postal alternatives to encountering ‘place’ as well as investigating the impact of digital travel on the cultural tourism economy.///For more information, catalogue and downloadable timetable See here https://www.artsterritoryexchange.com/icelandJoin us on Zoom!https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82130252390Keynote Speaker – Jessica Auer.Jessica Auer is a Canadian photographer and visual artist who works between Montréal, Québec and Seydisfjördur, Iceland. Her work is broadly concerned with the study of landscapes as cultural sites, focusing on themes that connect history, place, journey and cultural experience. She is best known for her large format photographs that examine the ways in which landscapes have been preserved, altered or commodified for sightseeing. In the last decade, she has completed over a dozen photography and video projects and published two photo books. An avid wanderer, she has participated in several international artist residencies, working in many Nordic and island environments across Canada and Scandinavia. While in Montréal, Jessica teaches photography at Concordia University.Artist presentations.Rhona Eve Clews and Berglind Hreiðarsdóttir.The artist/photographers will talk about their collaboration through (Arts) Territory Exchange which has taken place between London, Iceland and Sweden since 2018, touching on their postal exchanges, distance and proximity in their collaboration and the relationship to both their locations as they have deepened their exchange through lockdowns, thinking about the female body, landscape and alternative photography.Further context:In Light of Covid’s forced travel hiatus this symposium seeks to think about Iceland through the dimensions of Mobility, Spatiality and Virtuality.Referencing the text “Understanding and Constructing Shared Spaces with Mixed-Reality Boundar- ies”(1998)by Steve Benford et.al which describes different properties of “Shared Spaces” and the complex social and performative sphere made of mixed-reality boundaries and the joining real and virtual spaces across what he names as Transportation, Spatiality and Artifici-ality, it becomes clear that the travel hiatus forced by Covid created a disorientation of these established concepts and their hierarchies in relation to experiencing ‘research’, ‘field work’ and emotional connectivity (with loved ones and landscapes) across terrains of the embodied, physical, spatial and cognitive. The in-between spaces, digital terrains deemed as artifical have been deepened as relational and embodied in a new way as we have had to rely on others to vicarously demonstrate and share landscapes and their sensory contents across distances.As a prompt we will look at these ideas alongside Lucy Lippard’s critique of the research trip model of artists ‘parachuting in to soak up place’ (2018) how can we think about non-extractive and respectful means of cultural production that go beyond re-hashing the typical views of Iceland and ways to merge both remote and on the ground or ’embodied’ experiences which may eskew what Jóhannesdóttir (2016) calls the striving towards controlling and owning landscapes as we begin to travel again.Plan for the day:* 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.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&#x27; travel experiences. On foot, by flight and at sea.11.20 - Valentina Schulte- Artist Presentation: Náttsól: The Resignation of Night11.30 - 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 landscape12.40 - 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 Sheilds - Artist&#x27;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 (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 pm - 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 - Artist Presentation.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: &quot;This Place Gives Me Room&quot;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.Image credits. Jessica Auer - Birdwatchers Ingólfshöfði. Rhona Eve Clews and Berglind Hreiðarsdóttir.Image from their Exchange.

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