As an embodiment of Wind and Weather Window Gallery, Dragsúgur (the Icelandic name for the wind that comes in from a window) will travel amongst different locations in Reykjavik during the Reykjavik Arts Festival 2018. The window is actually taking its journey home, meaning, home doesn’t always have to be where your origins are but can be a place you find after a long journey. On Dragsúgur’s journey, he comes across a variety of characters that take part in the story of his journey home.
Text written by Erin Honeycutt. Photograph by Sveinni Speight. Photographic sculpture inside windows are by Claudia Hausfeld.
Dragsúgur begins his journey from Hverfisgata 37, Reykjavík.
The exact replica of the window gallery.
If a human is to embody a house, he/she must walk with it and feel as the house would feel flesh. How can a structure not fall in love with the landscape in which it rests and long to see what the slants of pavements and rolling coasts feel like underfoot? One hundred years is a long time to be stationary, gazing, calculating, and musing on the surroundings as Dragsúgur did before he became Dragsúgur:
Text by Erin Honeycutt.
Inside Dragsúgur is “The Espresso Bar”, an art installation/performance piece created by Egill Snæbjörnsson and Ívar Glói, at the WWWG on Hverfisgata 37, Reykjavík.
An actual working espresso bar.
The back of Dragsúgur and his story.
Like the building that houses the window gallery, which was built in 1913, Dragsúgur shares memories with the building. They share the same origins from a time when Iceland was a vastly different place than it is now. He has been transformed through his longing to experience walking in human form into a mobile gallery. Dragsúgur, in his travels, holds a space for artists to perform and place installations, and in this way, he comes to understand even more the embodied experience of human consciousness.
The window as a man as well as a window into man.
Text by Erin Honeycutt
Inside Dragsúgur is “The Espresso Bar”, an art installation/performance piece created by Egill Snæbjörnsson and Ívar Glói, at Austurvöllur, by the Parliament House in Reykjavík.
An actual working espresso bar.
Can a nomadic window traveling home find home wherever it rests? Always changing with each experience, the window is not a fixed base, but an embodiment of home. As the window itself looks out, the viewer in turn gazes in. The window then comes to be an embodiment of the viewer as well.
Text by Erin Honeycutt
Inside Dragsúgur is “The Espresso Bar,” an art installation/performance piece created by Egill Snæbjörnsson and Ívar Glói, at Austurvöllur, by the Parliament House Reykjavík.
An actual working espresso bar.
Dragsúgur and “The Espresso Bar,” an art installation/performance piece created by Egill Snæbjörnsson and Ívar Glói, at Austurvöllur, by the Parliament House, Reykjavík.
An actual working espresso bar.
View from the side and entrance.
Moves to Hallgrimskirkja, Reykjavík.
Dragsúgur at Hallgrimskirkja, Reykjavík and “The Night Station” by Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson and Agata Mickiewicz.
Dragsúgur at Hallgrimskirkja, Reykjavík and “The Night Station” by Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson and Agata Mickiewicz.
Media made of Icelandic wool, fabric, and string.
Dragsúgur on the move with “The Night Station” by Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson and Agata Mickiewicz.
Dragsúgur on the move from Bernhöftstorfan, Reykjavík, “The Night Station” by Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson and Agata Mickiewicz.
Dragsúgur touching down at Bernhöftstorfan, Reykjavík and “The Night Station” by Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson and Agata Mickiewicz.
Dragsúgur at Bernhöftstorfan and “The Night Station” by Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson and Agata Mickiewicz.
Presents Dragsúgur´s “The Chronicler”, and a performance “Windows Open " collaboration with Erin Honeycutt and Kathy Clark.
Text and performed by Erin Honeycutt.
Presents Dragsúgur´s “The Chronicler”, and a performance “Windows Open " collaboration with Erin Honeycutt and Kathy Clark.
Text and performed by Erin Honeycutt.
Dragsúgur´s “The Chronicler”, performed by Erin Honeycutt, at “The Espresso Bar”, by Egill Sæbjörnsson and Ívar Glói.
Detail photo taken from the outside looking in.
Dragsúgur´s “homecoming” at Hverfisgata 37, Reykjavík and guests.
I have returned to my first love, the landscape, this vast and eternal space that tells me on the wind that I am understood even without my container as I spill out into a body – complete unconditional acceptance, containing me in my growing without architecture. Now I am learning to walk in the land I fell in love with from my stationary position for almost one hundred years. I have been gazing - before the camera, before the poetry, before the painting, before the vase, before the songs, before the film – landscape carried me even then in my arriving and departing. This landscape is the cityscape in the way that everything that was before will come again – the ghosts of culture rest in landscape. Now, in the early years of this century, the landscape is a ruin and a precipice, a construction and a screen.
Text by Erin Honeycutt