POST Arnhem
Performance Seeking Solance Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir
Driekoningenstraat 16 Arnhem
Language: Engels
Entrance fee: €5,- – excluding service fee, including one free drink
Students ArtEZ and Radboud University: €2,50 – excluding service fee, including one free drink
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On Thursday 21 November, artist Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir's performance Seeking Solace will take place within Egelie's installation of the same name. This crossover of opera and performance explores the contrast between work and private life in contemporary Western society. In professional life, one is expected to be businesslike, pragmatic and performance-oriented. This often conceals insecurity, sensitivity and imposter syndrome. Inspired by sincere TikTok-videos and folk songs, the lyrics in Seeking Solace are an attempt to reveal this stark contrast.
The canceled artist talk with Caz Egelie from October 17 has been added to this evening's program. Following the performance Seeking Solace by artist Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir, program creator Martine van Lubeek will engage in conversation with Egelie about their artistic practice.
Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir (1993, IS)
Hildur Elísa is an Icelandic artist, musician and composer. Inspired by everyday reality, Jónsdóttir tells stories and creates immersive experiences. She deploys relational aesthetics and institutional criticism to disrupt and critique normative narratives, shedding a new light on the subjects of her work. Jónsdóttir places these narratives in an artistic context through the use of performance, video, installation art and music. By placing these ‘normal’, everyday events in unconventional and absurd scenes, she challenges the notion of a highly constructed social reality and compels the visitors to reflect on the ability to forge our own reality – in the meantime always asking the questions ‘why?’ and ‘what if?’.
Besides creating her own work, she is currently vice-president of Ung Nordisk Musik Iceland and has founded Associate Gallery with artists Ástríður Jónsdóttir and Joe Keys in Reykjavík, Iceland.