05.11.2022

News

The Living Art Museum will take part in Contemporary Culture Conversations, organised as part of Ritual Gatherings, in Sofia, Bulgaria on November 11.

Contemporary Culture Conversations (CCC) is a two-day forum for people working in the fields of art and culture, artists and audience, which will be held for the first time in Sofia this year. The program is divided into two days and will address key aspects of project management in the field of visual arts and the Bulgarian electronic music scene. Friday, 11 November is dedicated to cultural entrepreneurship and socially engaged art, sharing the expertise and best practices of experts and artists from Iceland and Norway.

The Living Art Museum will be taking part, providing insight into the operations of the museum — one of the oldest artist run museums in Europe — along with presenting a performative program with artists Wiola Ujazdowska, Pola Sutryk and anthropologist Anna Wojtynska.

The Living Art Museum will take part in Contemporary Culture Conversations, organised as part of Ritual Gatherings, in Sofia, Bulgaria on November 11.

Contemporary Culture Conversations (CCC) is a two-day forum for people working in the fields of art and culture, artists and audience, which will be held for the first time in Sofia this year. The program is divided into two days and will address key aspects of project management in the field of visual arts and the Bulgarian electronic music scene. Friday, 11 November is dedicated to cultural entrepreneurship and socially engaged art, sharing the expertise and best practices of experts and artists from Iceland and Norway.

The Living Art Museum will be taking part, providing insight into the operations of the museum — one of the oldest artist run museums in Europe — along with presenting a performative program with artists Wiola Ujazdowska, Pola Sutryk and anthropologist Anna Wojtynska.

Wiola Ujazdowska is an interdisciplinary artist living in Iceland and Poland, working with video, performance and installation. Her methodology is inspired by anthropology, literature, post-humanistic perspectives and philosophical concepts of identity. Her art explores the experiences of excluded groups in Nordic societies, focusing on the working class migrants from Eastern Europe. She is a member of AIVAG — Artists in Iceland Visa Action Group — a horizontal collective which aim is to catalyse artist’s visa legislation in Iceland and Create a public diaologue around an egalitarian art scene in Iceland that includes practices of artists outside the Nordic countries. During CCC she will present her work “The Prophesy of Lupine the Sun that Never Sets”.

Wiola Ujazdowska is an interdisciplinary artist living in Iceland and Poland, working with video, performance and installation. Her methodology is inspired by anthropology, literature, post-humanistic perspectives and philosophical concepts of identity. Her art explores the experiences of excluded groups in Nordic societies, focusing on the working class migrants from Eastern Europe. She is a member of AIVAG — Artists in Iceland Visa Action Group — a horizontal collective which aim is to catalyse artist’s visa legislation in Iceland and Create a public diaologue around an egalitarian art scene in Iceland that includes practices of artists outside the Nordic countries. During CCC she will present her work “The Prophesy of Lupine the Sun that Never Sets”.

Pola Sutryk is a chef, artist and experience designer working with foraged ingredients and traditional home cooking techniques from around the world, currently based in Iceland. She transfers the aesthetic and ecological sensitivity she had developed growing up in the wild region of eastern Poland into the area of culture and cuisine. Her main field of acitivity is cooking, understood as a meeting and a process of transformation. Process carried out with respect for all its participants: those who cook, those who eat and those who are eaten. Using food to create connections she collaborates with artists, brands and institutions on creating edible installations and multi-sensory experiences.

Pola Sutryk is a chef, artist and experience designer working with foraged ingredients and traditional home cooking techniques from around the world, currently based in Iceland. She transfers the aesthetic and ecological sensitivity she had developed growing up in the wild region of eastern Poland into the area of culture and cuisine. Her main field of acitivity is cooking, understood as a meeting and a process of transformation. Process carried out with respect for all its participants: those who cook, those who eat and those who are eaten. Using food to create connections she collaborates with artists, brands and institutions on creating edible installations and multi-sensory experiences.

Anna Wojtynska is an anthropologist who, in the past few years has been studying migration to Iceland, mostly from Poland but also other Eastern European countries. Her main focus is on labour market and transnational practices. In the presentation “The art of Inclusion” Anna will take Iceland as an example, and discuss the potential of applying artistic methods for inclusive spaces that accommodate for marginalised voices of immigrant population. She will also consider socially engaged artistic practice as a topic for anthropological inquiry. Can art speak for social justices and intercultural dialogue in increasingly fragmented, economically, polarized and ethnically diverse urban spaces?

In addition, Sunna Ástþórsdóttir, the director of The Living Art Museum contributed with an insight into the history, goals, values, objectives and operations of The Living Art Museum. She will discuss the concept and operational environment of not-for-profit artist run sapces with the museum as a case example, and give insight into the teamwork, tools and methods needed in order to nurture a progressive platform for contemporary visual artists — one that is artist centered, audience engaged and site specific.

Anna Wojtynska is an anthropologist who, in the past few years has been studying migration to Iceland, mostly from Poland but also other Eastern European countries. Her main focus is on labour market and transnational practices. In the presentation “The art of Inclusion” Anna will take Iceland as an example, and discuss the potential of applying artistic methods for inclusive spaces that accommodate for marginalised voices of immigrant population. She will also consider socially engaged artistic practice as a topic for anthropological inquiry. Can art speak for social justices and intercultural dialogue in increasingly fragmented, economically, polarized and ethnically diverse urban spaces?

In addition, Sunna Ástþórsdóttir, the director of The Living Art Museum contributed with an insight into the history, goals, values, objectives and operations of The Living Art Museum. She will discuss the concept and operational environment of not-for-profit artist run sapces with the museum as a case example, and give insight into the teamwork, tools and methods needed in order to nurture a progressive platform for contemporary visual artists — one that is artist centered, audience engaged and site specific.