Adrien Tirtiaux (BE) Erla Silfa Thorgrimsdottir (IS) Emily Norton (US) Aafke Weller (NL) Sidsel Genee (NL) Arna Óttarsdóttir (IS) main

ADRIEN TIRTIAUX Plans for Djupavik As a "contextual artist", I will not make any proposal before being in Djupavik, of course. Something that would interest me is to work on the notion of Landscape, and its representation. Not as a painter, but in the same romantic tradition, as a Model builder, or Land Art artist. I'm thinking of a guy making a huge model in his small house on the mountain, he has a view on the whole valley through the window and he stays inside, building bridges and hills and railroads, villages, cows, horses, and small fences along the green fields. He's not silly not to go out, he just tries to do something that he can control a bit in comparison to that immensity he faces everyday. Importing some icelandic mountains and lakes into an old factory, then send the postcards of it to Sign, or instructions to build it in the galery, or comics relating the life of ants living in that landscape. Or something else. But the documentation part -what will happen in Sign- should be part of the concept, and the boundaries between representation and documentation should somehow somewhen blur. Former work: Requiem für die sofiensäle Vienna 2005 (with Kathrin Schaller) Ein Sonntag im Museum Vienna 2007 (with Hannes Zebedin) It's a long way to the sea Groningen 2006 The sinking of the Göke Sinop 2008 More info: adrientirtiaux.eu