Hafnarfjörður Library presents Noise from Iceland, a collaborative art installation of sound and images by artists Magdalena Łukasiak and Kaśka Paluch-Łukasiak.
Utilising sounds recorded in the nature of Iceland along with recordings of the folkloristic database ÍsMús, Kaśka has created a unique soundscape from the very voice of the land, that creates a duet with the intimate nature photography of Magdalena.
The installation will be set in two locations – as a full sensory in the lower floor hall and as a headphone experience on the third floor.
The experience will be accessable from 17:00, but official opening will be at 20:00
Magdalena Łukasiak:
She graduated of Press, Advertising and Publishing Photography at the University of Warsaw. She has been dealing with photography and reportage for over 15 years. Recently work as a teacher. Her photos and videos have been published in the press and television – incl. National Geographic Traveler, Gazeta.pl, TVN24, RÚV or Morgunblaðið. Also participated in group exhibitions in Poland and Iceland. Currently working on a documentary about the sound map of Iceland.
Kaśka Paluch-Łukasiak:
Kaśka Paluch is a musician and musicologist, originally from Poland, living in Iceland for 5 years. She currently works as a multimedia class teacher at Vikurskóli Primary School and at the SFS Mixtúra creative and IT center in Reykjavik. The Noise From Iceland project was created in 2020 as the first ever sound map of Iceland, an attempt to answer the question “what does Iceland sound like?”. Since then, it has developed as a project that seeks this answer not only in the sound of Icelandic nature, but also in traditional songs and folk music. Noise From Iceland’s sounds were used in several exhibitions, i.e. at Venice Biennale 2022 andś in Ryuichi Sakamoto’s composition „Playback”.
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