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The Icelandic Love Corporation
Like Björk times three, the collaborative members of The Icelandic Love Corporation—Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir, Jóní Jónsdóttir, and Eirún Sigurdardóttir, who met at art school in Reykjavík—stage primal, enchanting performances in radically avant-garde attire. In a video (pictured, Thank You, 2002) that’s part of their North American debut at Williamsburg’s Jack the Pelican Presents, the sequined trio replaces the organs of a gutted cod, in tribute to Iceland’s chief natural resource. For a March 28 performance at the space, “it’s not clear yet what they’ll do, but they did assure me that it’s going to be very messy,” says gallery co-director Don Carroll.That shouldn’t deter their growing fan base, reported to include Iceland’s most famously eccentric sprite herself. —Karen Rosenberg
shereads notes: 1) Why so stingy with the vowels? 2) Some fortunate cod-gutter just learned that even the lowliest work, executed with passion, can be an entree into the world of the arts.
Edited to add:
Is there a less likely use of the word "enchanting" than to describe the replacement of the organs of a gutted cod? Isn't the use of "enchanting" in this context one of the signs of the Apocolypse?
The Icelandic Love Corporation
Like Björk times three, the collaborative members of The Icelandic Love Corporation—Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir, Jóní Jónsdóttir, and Eirún Sigurdardóttir, who met at art school in Reykjavík—stage primal, enchanting performances in radically avant-garde attire. In a video (pictured, Thank You, 2002) that’s part of their North American debut at Williamsburg’s Jack the Pelican Presents, the sequined trio replaces the organs of a gutted cod, in tribute to Iceland’s chief natural resource. For a March 28 performance at the space, “it’s not clear yet what they’ll do, but they did assure me that it’s going to be very messy,” says gallery co-director Don Carroll.That shouldn’t deter their growing fan base, reported to include Iceland’s most famously eccentric sprite herself. —Karen Rosenberg
shereads notes: 1) Why so stingy with the vowels? 2) Some fortunate cod-gutter just learned that even the lowliest work, executed with passion, can be an entree into the world of the arts.
Edited to add:
Is there a less likely use of the word "enchanting" than to describe the replacement of the organs of a gutted cod? Isn't the use of "enchanting" in this context one of the signs of the Apocolypse?
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