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Hér með er opinber vettvangur fyrir hugmyndir og samvinnu vegna sýningarinnar Glóbal-lókal sem opnuð verður í Listasafni Akureyrar með þátttöku Örnu Valsdóttur, Baldvins Ringsted, Hlyns Hallssonar, Jóní Jónsdóttur, Jónu Hlífar Halldórsdóttur og Níelsar Hafstein þann 7. júlí 2012.

The site for the shooting is the former location of Iceland's largest fishing net manufacturer. The lot was bought up by Landsbankinn, one of the banks that precipitated the crisis, and housed for a little over a year or so an experimental artists' complex, Klink and Bank, which was used as a promotional feature for the bank and its main owner, Björgúlfur Guðmundsson. Just befor the crisis the buildings were torn down and the intention was to build a complex of luxury apartments there, a plan that was heavily champoined under the heading of 'Hlemmur +' by both memebers of the city council and the spokespeople of Landsbankinn. Hlemmur is the area around the main bus station and has been urn down for the last 20 years or so. Alas, the site has not seen any developement since the crisis and the collapse of Landsbankinn. The work is a dual panorama of the site, forever circulating both clockwise and counterclockwise within its boundaries.

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These are a few images from the exhibition in Formosa, with balloons!

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Patagonia is in Iceland a word describing an enchanted and fabulous far-away place. That was one of the reasons for making a lengthy journey by train and bus in order to take the Tren Patagonico across the northern part of Patagonia from the Atlantic Ocean to the valley of El Manso on border of Chile in the Andes'. The work is a slideshow, made on a vintage Leica IIIc, a sequence of incidential images taken along the way.