Supervision and selection of reading material: Þóra Þórisdóttir

Facilitator: Anna Líndal

Dear all,

The Living Art Museum's reading club comes together every first Thursday evening of each month. On Thursday November 4 at 8:30 pm, Þóra Þórisdóttir will lead a discussion on selected articles related to trade and food as an art form, a medium of expression, political statements or a social forum. Most of the articles are news and coverage from various online media, in addition there is an article about the exhibition of the food company Urta Islandica in Ketilshús, Akureyri Art Museum in 2014. Anna Líndal facilitates. Below you can see a list of the evening's reading material, click on the headings to access it. 

#1: Ketilhúsið / Kettle House. Skapandi greinar, í átt að heilbrigðara efnahagskerfi
#2: In Copenhagen: The Flower Shop as Art Installation
#3: Artist Opens ‘Fauxdega’ in New York With 9,000 Felt Products and It’s Already Sold Out
#4: Experience the Art of Emptiness with XUZHEN SUPERMARKET
#5: Adelaide Festival art installation The Plastic Bag Store plays to the absurdity of heavily packaged groceries
#6: Camille Walala creates pop-up Supermarket food store at the Design Museum
#7: Atvinnulaus eftir hrun og úr varð framúrskarandi fyrirtæki