{"id":617,"date":"2017-05-24T17:09:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T17:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listagil.is\/?p=617"},"modified":"2017-05-24T17:09:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T17:09:31","slug":"617","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"The Clouds – Are They Actually Thinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Clouds \u2013 Are They Actually Thinking?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Video innsetning og fleira <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

eftir Sonja Hinrichsen \u2013 gestalistamann Gilf\u00e9lagsins<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Veri\u00f0 velkomin \u00e1 opnun \u00ed Deiglunni, Kaupvangsstr\u00e6ti 23, Akureyri.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Laugardaginn 27. ma\u00ed, 2017 kl. 14:00 \u2013 17:00<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

N\u00e1nari uppl\u00fdsingar um hugmyndafr\u00e6\u00f0i s\u00fdningarinnar \u00e1 ensku ne\u00f0ar.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Clouds \u2013 Are They Actually Thinking?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Video Installation and more<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\nby Sonja Hinrichsen – artist in residence at Gilf\u00e9lagi\u00f0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>
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\nPlease come and join me for an open art day at Deiglan Gallery, Kaupvangsstr\u00e6ti 23, Akureyri.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a> Saturday May 27th, 2017 – that is\u00a0THIS Saturday<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\n14:00 – 17:00<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nAccording to the Norse belief system the clouds are created from the giant Ymir\u2019s brain \u2013 which Odin and his brothers Vili\u00a0 and Ve tossed up into the sky to become clouds.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/a> Having observed Icelandic clouds for the past 4 weeks, I have realized that they are moody. Their moods direct the light of the\u00a0sun<\/span>, the temperature on earth, rain, snow and winds. Sometimes all of these conditions follow each other within short succession. I have been taking on and off sweaters, jackets, scarves, gloves, hats and socks \u2013 sometimes several times per hour. Are these voluminous bulging brain-clouds actually thinking? Is it Ymir playing tricks on us? Or have they gone astray like lost boats bobbing in the Icelandic Sea, and their thoughts wonder freely as they please?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Interestingly the Teutonic concept of the world suggests that everything on earth, including each individual\u2019s life is pre-ordained. This raises questions about the human race, the earth we inhibit, and where we are actually heading – especially during a time of social upheaval and increasing political instability \u2013 a time when people have become selfish, taking advantage of other people: the rich of the poor, the educated of the uneducated, rulers of the common man, and corporations of everybody within their reach.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Where one race tries to dominate over another race, and one religion over another religion, one ethos over another ethos \u2013 victimizing, shaming and persecuting those who do not belong.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Iceland has seemed tranquil \u2013 like an oasis of peace and environmental soundness, where there is energy and water in abundance \u2013 hot as well as cold.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I know it is deceiving. Iceland\u2019s glaciers have been melting, the fish has been diminishing, climate is changing here as well. Coming from California, I enjoyed my first week here at 25 degrees. Yet, it is with reservation \u2013 as I am told this is much too warm for May \u2013 and that this past winter had very little snow. Northern fjords have not been frozen solid since the 1970s.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Norse philosophy believes there will be an inevitable end to everything \u2013 and there is nothing we can do to prevent it. A grand inferno when the land will sink into the sea and everything will be swallowed up by an enormous wolf. An apocalypse, an armageddon: Ragnarok. It will make way to the original void that was before anything was: Ginnungagap.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Looking at the beautiful, innocent mountains and the tranquil sea, which has nourished the Icelandic people throughout centuries, all of this – as well as the world\u2019s turmoil – seems far far away. Yet, I wonder\u2026 Do those clouds know more than I do? More than all of us do? The clouds made from Ymir\u2019s brain? The one who was first, and whose body was sacrificed to create all that is \u2013 our universe?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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