Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Uterus Flags
Bankastræti, Reykjavík city centre
Uterus Flags, 2005
The public intervention Uterus Flags, is a group of 72 flags in different colors, bearing the silhouette of the female sexual organs; the uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries and vagina. Each flag measures: 110 cm x 106 cm.
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Untitled (Portrait of the artists wearing the Icelandic women’s costume; Peysuföt and Upphlutur), 2000-06
Akureyri Art Museum
Kaupvangsstræti 12, Akureyri
www.listasafn.akureyri.is
HOMESICK – Act I
Participating artists: Guy Ben-Ner (Israel), Chantal Michel (Switzerland), Nevin Aladag (Turkey), Katrin Sigurdardóttir (Iceland), Haraldur Jonsson (Iceland), Ólafur Arni Ólafsson & Libia Pérez de Siles de Castro (Iceland/Spain)
Coordinator and Curator Act I:
Christian Schoen, director of CIA.IS – Center for Icelandic Art
www.cia.is/news/homesick.htm
www.homesickx4.blogspot.com
Interview with Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson
Press Release Homesick
The exhibition at the Akureyri Art Museum in Iceland forms the starting point of the HOMESICK Project, a series of exhibitions in co-operation with CIA.IS — Center for Icelandic Art together with the Akureyri Art Museum (Iceland), Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center Istanbul (Turkey) and the Center for Contemporary Art (Israel).
Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson: Ferdinand playing guitar, C-print, 100x150cm, 2002
You are very welcome to the opening of Demolitions and Excavations at galerie Martin van Zomeren saturday 22, 17:00 to 19:00
Galerie martin van zomeren/gmvz
prinsengracht 276-hs
nl-1016 hj amsterdam
tel +31 6 113 70 211 telfax +31 20 420 8129
open wed- sat 1300-1800 hrs
gmvz.com / contact@gmvz.com
With kind support of the Akka Foundation, DeisKa and ed.projects
For the duration of one weekend De Appel is Janus-faced: looking back to past achievements and looking forward to unrealized possibilities.
With a polyphonic talk show including a large number of guests and hosts the history of De Appel is turned into a palpable experience rather than a series of written documents and photographs. A presentation by academic Marga van Mechelen and a lecture by French curator Guillaume D�sanges shed a new light on the origins of De Appel as a performance-based space set up by Wies Smals in 1975. The production �Show Dance� by Swiss-Greek choreographer Alexandra Bachzetsis explores the shadowland between conceptual dance, visual arts performance and hints at the future collaboration between De Appel and the festival �If I Can�t Dance� in Autumn 2006.
Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Tua patria non existat (Your country doesn´t exist)
Paint on sand stone (monument) – Temporary intervention
NEDERLAND 1 / Een tentoonsteling op uitnodiging van Tiong Ang / Deelnemende kunstenaars: Frits Weeda & Erik Weeda, Birthe Leemeijer, Moshekwa Langa, Roy Villevoye, Luuk Wilmering, Arnoud Holleman, Remy Jungerman, Job Koelewijn, Charlie Citron, Monali Meher, Delphine Bedel, Fendry Ekel, Annaleen Louwes, Voerman & Vermeulen, Diana Scherer, Ronald Ophuis, Libia Perez de Siles de Castro & Olafur Olafsson, Jan Koster, Renée Ridgway, W.J.M. Kok, Marieke van Diemen, Jan Rothuizen, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Fow Pyng Hu, Ni Haifeng, Yvonne Dröge Wendel & Saliou Traoré, Naro Snackey, Shunji Hori, Peter Struycken, Marlene Dumas, JCJ van der Heyden, Erik van Lieshout, Johannes Schwartz / Buitenlandse correspondenten: Carter Kustera (USA), Abrie Fourie (Z-A), Bruna Esposito (I), Robert DeVriendt (B), Kevin Deforest (CDN), Odili Donald Odita (USA), Mella Jaarsma (ID), Atone Niane (NL /SNG), Diego Ferrari (UK) e.a.
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Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Your country doesn´t exist, 2006
The work appears here as the cover of The Icelandic Mediacal Journal
Curated by Markús Þór Andrésson
Traversing Madrid – Traversing Frigiliana, 2006
Double video projection
(more info soon)
Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Chapter 3: The Noise of Money
Contemporary Art Centre (CAC)
Vokieciu 2
LT-01130 Vilnius Lithuania
www.cac.lt / www.onmobility.net
Artists:
Bik Van der Pol
Castro / Ólafsson
Alicia Framis
Patricija Jurkšaitytė
Andrew Miksys
Multiplicity
Sean Snyder
Judi Werthein
Curator: Kestutis Kuizinas
The movement of people has shaped history and transformed the boundaries of countries. Lithuania�s borders have changed dramatically throughout the years and its people have consequently experienced different levels of mobility. During Soviet times there were severe constraints on travel as well as phases of mass displacement to destinations throughout the Soviet Union. In recent history there has been extensive forced economic migration; major cities such as London and New York have large Lithuanian communities and there are an estimated 100 000 Lithuanians living and working in Ireland. With this comes the benefits of increased income and new experiences, but there are many difficulties such as a loss of identity and bureaucratic pitfalls such as not qualifying for welfare.