Postcards for Seyðisfjörður – (TRANSPORTATIVE LANDSCAPES)
Transportative Landscape – Yellow 1
Transportative Landscape – Red 2
Transportative Landscape – Yellow 3
Transportative Landscape – Red 4
Transportative Landscape – Yellow 5
Transportative Landscape – Red 6
B&W postcards, hand cut colored vinyl, thermal labels, digital print on repurposed kraft board
4 x 6 in. (148 x 105 cm)
2025
The eleventh edition of Sluice’s peripatetic international expo is alighting in the far east of Iceland in the isolated town of Seyðisfjörður (population 670). Sluice Seyðisfjörður is an international expo of artist and curator-led projects each addressing the concept of world-building as a means to explore how we build worlds within our own. How these re-imagined, alternative worlds reflect back at us our dissatisfaction with the world as-is and points towards utopic/dystopic alternates. We recognize the danger of the current historical moment, and also its potential.
Rallying under the title Sluice Seyðisfjörður: World-Building, 17 projects will exhibit over 200 artists in 11 venues around Seyðisfjörður from 23 to 25 May 2025. In tandem with the expo, Sluice Film Festival will be staged at Her›ubíó cinema, the only cinema in east Iceland. Sluice Film Festival will show 17 artist’s short films on the subject of world-building, culminating in a prize-giving for ‘best in show’ awarded by artists David Blandy and Kamilla Gylfadóttir.
Exhibitions, screenings, talks, and performances will be situated throughout the Seyðisfjörður community and industrial areas. The exhibiting projects come from the UK, USA, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland, Iceland and New Zealand. The World-Building expo has been jointly developed and delivered by Seyðisfjörður based LungA School and London based SLUICE.
From Old Friends
Spray paint, found broken concrete block, vintage wooden dowel, new wooden dowel, Japanese "Do Not Enter" Caution Tape, repurposed melamine board, pine
15 x 15 x 10 1/2 in. (38 x 38 x 27 cm)
2024