Kling & Bang

The first solo exhibition to open at The Demented Diamond is Sirra Sigrún Sigurðardóttir’s Tremors.

 

 

Tremors is a multi-channel video and sound installation depicting residents of Selfoss, a town on the south coast of Iceland, expressing in movements and spoken text their impressions from two dramatic events shaking their lives in the year 2008. In May a powerful earthquake took place, 6.7 magnitude, and in October the country’s economy collapsed. Occupying the gap between spectator and actor they take on the form of a chorus, speaking and acting out their experiences.

 

The work explores the juxtaposition of the man-made with the natural; disasters, shifts, changes and movements. Our personal reactions to uncertainty, fear, mistrust and alienation. The work attempts to visualize the subtle psychological and physical effects that events like these have on the individual level as well as examining how the more emotional reactions and reflexes manifest in society.

 

Opening June 7th at 5 pm

 

Opening at The Reykjavík Art Museum-Hafnarhús at: 03:00 PM

 

 

A SUGARY SWEET DELICIOUS DEMON

 

Throughout the years Kling & Bang has kindly been given custody of numerous films, videos and performance documentation that now form The Confected Video Archive of Kling & Bang. Collecting samples, the archive provides a glimpse into a sector of time.

 

Ever changing and growing each time it is exhibited, The Confected Video Archive even acts as a catalyst for new works. It is a constant flow of works between the artists, Kling & Bang and the audience. In a reasonably unsystematic way videos are compiled when the occasion arises, and even though every arrangement of the works consists of the same basic particles, each portrays a different view of this whole. In this way it is never complete and its goal is not defined.

 

This time around, in addition to showing the Color Scheme, they have confected a Demented Diamond, a mild delirium with lucid intervals. Out of The Confected Video Archive they have pulled threads to weave a luminous web, creating a shining lattice glowing in the darkness. Sound and light bounce inside, yet bleeding out, through a distorted mirroring of the surroundings.

 

The Diamond itself becomes a portrait of Kling & Bang, perhaps demented but with lucid intervals. For the past 9 years they have worked towards their goal, to generate art exhibitions and projects that they believe in at each given time. Kling & Bang is a group of artists in an undefined structure with everyone facing different directions, yet all drawn to the same center, forming a crystal lattice. A sugary sweet delicious demon with irrational faith in the importance of art.

 

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May 19th – September 2nd 2012 at the Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús, as part of the Reykjavík art Arts Ffestival´s (I)ndependent people.

 

Video works, performance documentation and artist films by over sixty artists.

 

The Color Scheme consists of a dozen (and growing) curated exhibitions for ten screens rotating throughout the show.

The Demented Diamond lures guests into an ever changing luminous web woven from selected works from The Confected Video Archive. In addition, every two weeks throughout the exhibition artists have been invited to take over the Demented Diamond with solo shows or special projects.

 

May 24th at 5 pm:

Sheep Plug Club films

 

June 7th at 5 pm:

Sirra Sigrún Sigurðardóttir

 

June 21st at 5 pm:

Kolbeinn Hugi Höskuldsson

 

July 5th at 5 pm:

Ragnar Helgi Ólafsson

 

July 19th at 5 pm:

Þórgunnur Oddsdóttir

 

August 2nd at 5 pm:

K&B projects

 

August 16th at 5 pm:

Loji Höskuldsson

 

August 30th at 5 pm:

Secret gem revealed

 

Color Scheme initiated by Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir and Dorothea Schlueter gallerie in Hamburg.

 

Demented Diamond created by Ingibjörg Sigurjónsdóttir

in a joint effort with: Anna Hrund Másdóttir, Daníel Björnsson, Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir, Þórgunnur Oddsdóttir, Katla Rós, Ragnar Már and the rest of Kling & Bang