9 July, Friday

17.00
Havarí live music project
Austurstræti 6

18.00
Croy Nielsen, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Hollybush Gardens, i8, IBID Projects, Jan Mot, Johann König, Raster, Rodeo, Zero
exhibition openings

22.00
Paristetris, Sudden Weather Change, Stafrænn Hákon
concert
Bakkus / Venue, Tryggvagata 22

10 July, Saturday

15.00
Art Makes Us Drunk
film screening
Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús, Tryggvagata 17

17.00
Havarí live music project
Austurstræti 6

18.00
Kling & Bang, Hunt Kastner, Tulips & Roses
exhibition openings

19.00
Kling & Bang Garden Party
Quadruplos, Cloud and Lightning
concert
Hverfisgata 42

22.00
Afterparty
Bakkus / Venue, Tryggvagata 22

11 July, Sunday

14.00
Havarí live music project
Austurstræti 6

15.00
Grzegorz Królikiewicz, Through and Through
screening
Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús, Tryggvagata 17

17.00
Oskar Dawicki
performance
Geirsgata 11

22.00
Blood Music, Antykrystyna, Mikael Lind
Bakkus / Venue, Tryggvagata 22

13 July, Tuesday

15.00
Along the Line
screening
Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús, Tryggvagata 17

17.00
Havarí live music project
Houseband, final concert
Austurstræti 6

18.00
Oskar Dawicki
performance
Janek Simon
lecture
Kling & Bang, Hverfisgata 42

19.30 – 21.00
Darri Lorenzen, 90 Minutes from Where You Are Now
video loop
Háskólabíó (cinema), við Hagatorg

20.00
Wilhelm Sasnal, Swineherd
film screening
Háskólabíó (cinema), við Hagatorg

22.00
Paula & Karol, Pascal Pinon, Loji, Snorri Helgason
concert
Bakkus / Venue, Tryggvagata 22

14 July, Wednesday

10.00 – 16.00
Open Studio Day
Seljavegur 32 (residency building of SIM) – 46 studios
Myragata 28 (Allianz House) – 3 studios
Nýlenduagata 15 (Sculpture Association) – 11 studios

15.00
Kling & Bang Gang, Whirlpool
screening
House of Ideas / Hugmyndahús, Grandagarður 2

17.00
Prinz Gholam
performance
Oskar Dawicki
performance
Paula & Karol
concert
Kitty Travers
ice cream
House of Ideas / Hugmyndahús, Grandagarður 2

22.00
Mr Silla, Swords of Chaos, dj Wiktor Skok
concert
Bakkus / Venue, Tryggvagata 22

15 July, Thursday

15.00
Mancuška / Selg / Smetana
films presented by SVIT, Prague
Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús, Tryggvagata 17

17.00
Kling & Bang Gang, Domains of Joyful Degradation
performance set
Geirsgata 11

20.00
Block Party
Nolo, MSN (Me, the Slumbering Napoleon)
concert
Bakkus / Venue, Tryggvagata 22

16 July, Friday

15.00
Art Makes Us Drunk
screening
Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús, Tryggvagata 17

22.00
William Hunt
performance
seashore at Ægissíða

Oskar Dawicki
performance

An important part of Dawicki's artistic oeuvre is proving that he exists. He once embedded his tiny image in posters and on product packaging (e.g. for a hot-water bottle) designed by an ad agency he worked for commercially. The images were examined by viewers using a magnifying glass. His performances are often based on the idea of the artist's disappearance and reappearance, challenging the nature of performance as such. In 2002, Dawicki gave an interview to the owners of Galeria Raster. To all the questions, which dealt with art and its meaning, he answered by playing back the words “I don't know” from a dictaphone. And what is performance art, Mr Dawicki?
11 July, 17.00, Geirsgata 11
13 July, 18.00, Kling & Bang, Hverfisgata 42
14 July, 17.00, House of Ideas / Hugmyndahús, Grandagarður 2

Domains of Joyful Degradation
performance set

Curated by Kolbeinn Hugi Höskuldsson and Kling & Bang Gang.
Domains of Joyful Degradation. “A bodyless corpse is just a head. Performanceless art is just like having your lover leave a message on the fridge... That she loves you...or that she's leaving you. C'mon everything is better in person, even breaking up. A bodyless art piece is just an idea put in a vacuum waiting for you to discover it for what it is. Like a rock. You don't have a say anything about how the experience works for you, hell, you don't even get to tell its creator if it sucked (unless you know the creator, and then it's unlikely you would anyway.) You want your art hand delivered to you by the artist himself? Yes you do! You are a lazy product of the internet age who goes to cool sites to tell you what to look at. You have no interest or patience to discover things for yourself, on your own. Don't worry. We will deliver them to you. On a golden platter of what should never have been called art, coz it feels more like blizz. It's performance! It's RAD!”
Artists: Baldur Björnsson, Ingibjörg Sigurjónsdóttir and Sigríður Soffía Níelsdóttir, Kolbeinn Hugi and Mundi, Lilja Birgisdóttir, Monica Frycova, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson and Unnur Andrea Einarsdóttir.
15 July, 17.00, Geirsgata 11

William Hunt
performance

The opening week will end with a performance by William Hunt. This London based artist is known for his spectacular actions, in which he merges the element of art with elements of nature. One of his most amazing performances is Put Your Foot Down, where William sings in a car completely filled with water. In The impotence of radicalism in the face of all these extreme positions, he sings and plays the guitar hanging upside down. The setting for his project in Reykjavík is the sea, there will also be the always present music.
seashore at Ægissíða, 16 July, 22.00

Prinz Gholam
performance

A black & white photograph of two figures is placed in a spacious room. In an adjacent space Prinz Gholam begin their performance by embodying the same posture depicted in the black & white picture. A succession of meditation-like postures follow. They enhance a mental, emotional, and bodily, rigor. The meaning of the embodied is decontextualized. The present situation takes over. A subjective sense of time establishes itself simultaneously for the performers and for the beholder. The performed stillness, or the still-act, is an interruption of the economy of time and the fluidity of movement: movement resistance, moments of intensification, small movements, vibrations and trembling.
14 July, 17.00, House of Ideas / Hugmyndahús, Grandagarður 2

Janek Simon
lecture

Is it possible to predict the future? Can we cheat fate by means of mathematics and logic? Janek Simon is an artist who is able to cope in dire straits. In the past, possessed with a vision of a looming catastrophe, he would give lessons of how to feed oneself in the forest (eg. “Edible Plants and Animals of Lower Saxony”), and how to catch squirrels. His thinking today is not as pessimistic, though equally practical. In his lecture in Reykjavik, Simon takes us into the mysterious world of the lotto, with the addition of historical information about mathematics and psychology. The lecture complements his installation prepared by Raster Gallery. When delivered in Warsaw, the presentation had an additional utilitarian dimension – the artist decided to invest 3 thousand Polish in lotto coupons, planning to give the possible win  to Goldex Poldex, an alternative para-institution which he artist manages in Krakow.
13 July, 18.00, Kling & Bang, Hverfisgata 42

Art makes us drunk
screening

Curators: Łukasz Gorczyca, Łukasz Ronduda.
The programme of the film screenings, “Art Makes Us Drunk”, is a collection of artistic works which seem to follow a perverse and, at the same time, ironic approach to reactivating the parameters of traditional esthetic experience – an experience which is evoked by truly grand works of art, and which resembles the reaction to psychotropic drugs, taking the author and viewer beyond the common perception of reality. The set includes films by Gilbert and George, Dara Birnbaum, Piotr Żyliński or Firma Portretow, which smoothly reconcile the experience of getting drunk with that of esthetics, and which tell about a peculiar type of transformation, a metaphor of the chemical nature of all our mental processes. They are a dream about the force or art, their immediate and dazing effect.
10 July, 15.00, Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús, Tryggvagata 17
16 July, 15.00, Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús, Tryggvagata 17

Grzegorz Królikiewicz, Through and Through (Na wylot)
screening
 
Presented by Łukasz Ronduda.
“Through and Through” (1972, 72 min) is a legendary feature focusing on radicalization of cinematic  language. The film transgresses traditional methods of narrative construction, which is  characteristic of its genre. This non-conentional treatment of the cinematic form places this film somewhere between experimental art and cinema, in a domain that does not properly belong to either field. Krolikiewicz's radical debut is representative of his parallel pursuits - as a filmmaker as well as film theorist - and employs his crucial theory of "out - of - frame cinematographic space." The first film in his trilogy (together with Dancing Hawk and Endless Claims), which portray typical Polish anti-heroes imprisoned by reality, “Through and Through” criticizes the nihilism and depravity created by the socio-political system.
11 July, 15.00, Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús, Tryggvagata 17

Along the Line
screening

Curator Łukasz Ronduda.
The programme consists of film and video projects by Polish artists, all having the theme of “line” as their common denominator… Artists: Akademia Ruchu, Jarosław Fliciński, Edward Krasiński, Paweł Kwiek, Igor Omulecki, Józef Robakowski, Grzegorz Rogala, Zygmunt Rytka, Daniel Szczechura, Ryszard Waśko.
13 July, 15.00, Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús, Tryggvagata 17

Darri Lorenzen, 90 Minutes from Where You Are Now
video loop
 
Produced for Momentum 2009 5th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art. 20 minute loop presented in the cinema. As Kathrin Meyer wrote, "The projection surface, sound, light, and colors, are the protagonists in Lorenzen's film, which is simply about the creation of spaces and atmospheres - in other words, about film itself."
13 July, 19.30-21.00, Háskólabíó (cinema), við Hagatorg

Mančuška, Selg, Smetana
screening

The screening of three films, curated by Michal Manek, Presented by SVIT, Prague: Ján Mančuška Invisible (2009), Markus Selg Schicksal (Destiny) (2010), Matĕj Smetana Instructions 2: Trilobite (2009).
15 July, 15.00, Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús, Tryggvagata 17

Wilhelm Sasnal, Swineherd (Świniopas)
screening

Screening of Wilhelm Sasnal’s first feature film, “Swineherd” (“Świniopas”), 2008, black and white. As Hans Rudolf Reust wrote in “Artforum”, “The rural setting offers an inexhaustible supply of striking images: a water pump silhouetted against the light, patterns made by telephone poles (recalling Aleksandr Rodchenko’s photographs), the drum of a cement mixer, the pond behind the house where the pigs wallow, or the swineherd poking around in search of muddy plates marked with scrawled swastikas. One is constantly being surprised by the abrupt introduction of music or other noises: Suddenly, these sounds change the rhythm of the images, the images within the images, and their surfaces and structures.”
13 July, 20.00, Háskólabíó (cinema), við Hagatorg

Kling & Bang Gang, Whirlpool
screening

Kling & Bang Gang presents exclusive video screening featuring a line up of challenging contemporary and experimental video art. Explore the diversity and creativity of video art made in Reykjavik from some of our most prominent video artist: Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir, Curver, Dodda Maggý, Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir and Lilja Birgisdóttir, Irene Ósk Bermudez, Kolbeinn Hugi Höskuldsson, Sigurður Guðjónsson, and Þorbjörg Jónsdóttir.
14 July, 15.00, House of Ideas / Hugmyndahús, Grandagarður 2

Kitty Travers
ice-cream

Kitty Travers, the famous ice-cream maker from London, will be in Reykjavík the entire week. She will first get acquainted with the local products, so as to learn the local tastes. When she visits new places, she likes to discover new flavours. During Villa Warsaw, for example, she made ice cream tasting like Prince Polo wafer bars. We can expect something new in Reykjavík, as she has never been to Iceland before. “I'm ashamed to say I’ve never even considered what was north of Britain before... I've always looked to the East where the sun rises, the West where it sets, or the South where it's warm enough to melt an ice cream. I’m now very very much looking forward and up to visiting Iceland.” When asked about possible flavours to be found in Iceland, she lists:  Crowberries, Blueberries, Organic Milk, Cream and Yoghurt from dairy cattle who are fed on wild grasses and seaweed, Caramelised Geyserbread (Rye Bread baked for 20 hours in geothermal steam vents), Rhubarb, Wild Cherries, Brown Sugar & Surmjolk (soured milk) – a breakfast speciality, Glacier Water Ice Lollies, Sea Salt. Then she adds: “It would be fun to experiment with shapes too – I’ve got some oyster-shaped ice-cream moulds that I’d like to use one day, with an ice cream pearl inside of them... Or maybe make a volcano-shaped ice pop, like the chocolate Vesuvius you can buy to eat in Naples.”

Kling & Bang Garden Party

Kling & Bang Gang is a new energetic collaboration between Kling & Bang and the youngest generation of the Reykjavík art scene, adding new force to the now well established gallery, and resulting in a genuine Saturday night fever - a garden party around and on top of the Kling & Bang gallery. Sculptures by local artists will be revealed in the atmospheric melting pot of the new art scene. Live music (Quadruplos, Cloud and Lightning), BBQ-ing, massive summer heat, social hanging-out and cold drinks - all in green...
10 July, 19.00, Hverfisgata 42

Havarí live music project

Villa Reykjavík is not only exhibitions, performances, film screenings, and partying. It is also a project about unexpected neighbourhoods. A group of Icelandic musicians with a guest group of musicians from Poland have decided to give the meeting an artistic form: a spontaneously formed houseband will improvise during the open daily sessions in Havarí, each time for around half an hour. The final, experimental Tuesday mix, will be recorded and released in a limited edition (BRÍARÍ Records).
9 July, 17.00; 10 July, 17.00; 11 July 14.00; 13 July 17.00 (final concert)
Austurstræti 6