Artists, artistic collectives, thinkers and activists from Iceland, Germany, Kenya, Mali, Syria, Greenland and Poland have been asked to engage with the theme throughout Spring and Summer of 2022. The growing body of thoughts and ideas came together from 5th to 15th of September 2022 in Reykjavík, when the results of their explorations were presented to a wide audience in a holistic program - on site and digitally, at the Nordic House Reykjavík, as well as in schools and in the outdoors.
Poetic reflections on the body as a political, cultural, and social oracle merged with future-archaeological, transmigratory, decolonizing, and queer visions of history, nature, time and (im-)materiality. With Goethe Morph* Iceland becoming a recalibration of common knowledge and an invitation to all of us to actively shape the morphology of our lives.Find out more...
In these encounters, analogue and digital, with bodies and minds, we try to envision alternative forms of living and togetherness along the intersections of art and embodied, critical, philosophy - for entangled modes of thinking can help address the diverse societies we have become. This way we want to activate each other in asking how we always wanted to have lived. Which yet-to-be-imagined visions of life do people with different experiences, different origins have? How can we make these visions visible? How can (embodied) knowledge be put into practice? And can we understand these practices not only as something better, but above all as something different - for a rethinking of the present and future?
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During the body and mind workshop CorresponDance by Janne Gregor. -
Choreographer Janne Gregor during her workshop CorresponDance. -
During event 'The Lost Icelandic Folk Dance' by the artist collective Walther von Goethe Foundation. -
At the Goethe Morph* Iceland event 'The Lost Icelandic Folk Dance', curator Thomas Schaupp and Berglind Ágústsdóttir re-enacted a lost dance -
The artist collective Walther von Goethe Foundation and House of the Deadly Doris with Wolfgang Müller, Ahmad Hamad, Richard Radzinksi and An Paenhuysen. -
Wolfgang Müller handing out certficates during the workshop 'What nationality do birds have?'. -
Evening at the Nordic House. -
The project 'next II (Mali/Iceland)' by artistic director Janne Gregor included a live performance by dancers Kettly Noël and Charmene Pang. -
The project 'next II (Mali/Iceland)' by artistic director Janne Gregor included a live performance by dancers Kettly Noël and Charmene Pang. -
Audience at 'next II (Mali/Iceland)'. -
'Oumuamua' the processual sound-performance by Marc Sinan Company in the Nordic House Library -
Oumuamua, the processual sound performance by Marc Sinan Company at the Nordic House Library. -
Chef Kabui and his support at the Nordic House kitchen for the event 'Food for Thought'. -
Chef Kabui on the philosophy behind his decolonial food intervention. -
Decolonial Plate. -
Goethe Morph* Iceland event with the Ambassador of Germany and the curators Arnbjörg Marie Danielsen and Thomas Schaupp and opening of the exhibition 'Growing Body of Evidence' -
'Spinning Rooftops': performance by FRZNTE on the rooftop of Nordic House Iceland. -
'Spinning Rooftops': performance by FRZNTE on the rooftop of Nordic House Iceland. -
Members of the audience waiting for the performance ARK1 by Colette Sadler to begin. -
Leah Marojevic in the performance ARK 1 by Colette Sadler. -
ARK 1: Performance by Colette Sadler with Leah Marjanovic. -
Evening sky over Reykjavík. -
Exhibition view of Aneta Grzeszykowska's work MODEL. -
Another 'Spinning Rooftop' performance on Sunday by FRZNTE -
Afrofuturistic Conscious Cuisine by Chef Kabui as part of the project Unexpected Lessons #2. -
Team members and artists of Talking Objects Lab. -
Afrofuturist Conscious Cuisine - A decolonized plate. -
The performative conference 'Unexpected Lessons #2: Decolonizing Nature' by Talking Objects Lab. -
hn.lyonga during their performance 'Memories of trees – tree routes and other Universes'. -
Neo Musangi during their artistic lecture 'Dogs Hunting in the Park'. -
Breaks in-between lectures and intervention at the decolonial conference 'Unexpected Lessons #2'. -
Audience question at Unexpected Lessons #2 -
Presentation during the lecture 'Museum as Plantation' by Ayesha Keshani. -
The conference ended with a communal eating experience at the Nordic House green house, created by the Filipino-Icelandic artist collective Lucky 3. -
Lucky 3 explaining the traditional Filipino festive dinner Kamayan, typically eaten only with one's hands. -
Kamayan
Goethe Morph* Iceland: How we always wanted to have lived is a trans-cultural intervention of the Goethe-Institut in cooperation with The Nordic House, Reykjavík. Curated by Arnbjörg María Danielsen and Thomas Schaupp.
