Performance and exhibition, Gallery Skriðuklaustur and surrounding garden. 2012.
The performance based work and installation is based on the setup of an outdoor work station – a defined area where grass is growing and the artists attempt to register each straw through drawing. Wind playing a factor for upholding the work, related to a scientific endeavour, in between movement of completed straw-drawings take place with a wheel borrow to the gallery space where the drawings are arranged orderly, on rows on the floor. The exhibition is gradually build up of documentation of the happening by the means of polaroids, drawings and small arrangements of straw that have found their way into the gallery space placed on white book blocks and old match boxes.
The title is a play with language, trying to translate from a complex physical object to language or drawings or from one language to the other is a re-arrangement of material and a human condition and achievement. The title indicates success – achievement – but other meanings of the translated words are inherent as well; The Icelandic Arrangur – or old norse Árgangr can be translated as “A years course” and the danish Landvinding also directly means working of the land, or taking over new territory.
Colonisation happens in various scales. Homo sapiens have completely changed to natural environment of Iceland by the introduction of sheep, Mono culture grass fields are symbols or areas where human easily can touch down on the great outdoors, grass cut to a suitable even length, chaos controlled.
