(I)ndependent People at Reykjavik Arts Festival Reykjavík Arts Festival Visual Arts Program 2012 Opening weekend 18 – 21 May 2012 Saturday May 19 will be dedicated to openings of the exhibitions International seminar in the Nordic House May 20 Reykjavík Arts Festival 2012 announces (I)ndependent People, a large-scale collaborative international visual arts project that will involve many of Reykjavík’s exhibition spaces, museums, galleries and public space during the festival season and throughout the summer. Focusing on contemporary visual art from the Nordic and Baltic countries, (I)ndependent People asks if and how collaboration can operate in continual negotiation between contesting ideas and desires, yet allowing unplanned and transformative action.
Photos by Hendrik Zeitler