World-renowned Icelandic musical installation The Visitors makes Alberta debut at the Esker Foundation yyc
Nine musical friends gather in a large, rustic 19th-century house in upstate New York to play a 64-minute folk song called Feminine Ways. Each player has their own instrument or instruments and their own room in the mansion, connected by headphones. In one take, they play the song while filming and recording their performances on nine separate audio and video channels before uniting outside the house and wandering into the distance while still singing.
Gyoa Valtysdottir in a scene from The Visitors. Ragnar Kjartansson, still image from The Visitors, 2012. 9-channel HD video projection, 64 mins. Photo: Elisabet Davidsdottir, Sound: Chris McDonald, Video: Tomas Orn Tomasson. Image courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, NYC, and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik. Gift of Graham & Ann Gund to ICA, Boston, Guggenheim Museum, NYC, and Gund Gallery.
Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir, who is Kjartansson’s ex-wife. Kjartansson leads the song while strumming a guitar in a bathtub . The musicians are all his friends and include ssdóttir of Icelandic band Múm; former Sigu Ros keyboardist Kjartan Sveinsson and composer Davíð Þór Jónsson, who frequently collaborates with Kjartansson. The separate audio tracks on the nine separate channels can move in and out of prominence depending on where the viewer is standing.
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