ANDRI BJÖRGVINSSON
Works
Waiting Room
Shipwreck
Monophthongs
St. Emi
The Chosen Ones
Die Rennbahn
Above and Below
Gaps
About
ANDRI BJÖRGVINSSON
Works
Waiting Room
Shipwreck
Monophthongs
St. Emi
The Chosen Ones
Die Rennbahn
Above and Below
Gaps
About
2025
Installation that was a part of the exhibition Nimbus with artist Rúnar Örn Marinósson in the project space Á milli in Reykjavík.
The idea of the installation came about through discussions with Rúnar, that exhibited an balloon arch that was welll past his prime.
We developed an exhibition that felt long finished, a static scene of leftover elements. The sense of an event already over, along with the slow process of cleaning up, continued through the entire duration of the show.
Inspired by the architecture of the space Andri installed toilet stalls into the exhibitions space. Obviously fake stalls with oversized cubicle locks that show a spectrum of colors ranging from green to red, a spectrum of accessability. A minature sized toy vacum cleaner was constantly moving back and forth behind the stalls, forcing the viewers line of vision to ground level to see whats happening on the other side.
2024
“Shipwreck is a durational and processual piece where UKAI Projects, alongside Icelandic
artists, technicians, and audiences, will create and animate immersive scenarios where
audiences might encounter fragments of a changed world. In a Bakhtinian mode, visitors
encounter regions of uncertain meaning and governance. Before making determinations
about the ‘rightness’ or ‘wrongness’ of what unfolds, they must consummate and make
whole. And by giving a shape to these shards of ecological and technological excess, they
become answerable to what happens next.”
- Project description from UKAI projects
For this exhibition in Korpúlfstaðir, Reykjavík, I was interested in using found materials and after searching the nearby area I found a pile of old neon signs, waiting to be thrown away. These signs were the core material of two scupltures I exhibited. One sign I cut in pieces and re-assabled as a sculpture, and for the other one I kept the original form of the sign and used the remaining working lights.
Continuing with the theme of lights and lamps, I created a chandelier out of old plastic boxes used for shipping vegetables that was hung in the middle of the space.
Brasserie, 2024
REST AUR ANT, 2024
Chandelier, 2024
2024
It all begins with an idea: the notion of bringing everyday objects to life and assembling them into a band. Windshield wiper motors fuel the rhythm section, foot pumps serve as the wind instruments, 3D printed mouths lend vocals, and gym weights ring the bells.
Then comes the arrangement. Here, the material takes charge, molding the original idea until the composer must yield to it, allowing the orchestra to play its tune.
Andri Björgvinsson presents new works that all circulate and resonate. The works could be described as musical suggestions that are propelled by window-wiper motors. These motors play polyrhythmic and unpredictable melodies with different approaches, for instance with and exact replica of a human oral cavity and bells that are used to introduce children to musical performance. And thus, within the confines of the space, an electrically powered musical bustle is created that repeats itself into infinity.
-Text from exhibition catalogue
Monothtong was a solo exhibition in Kling & Bang, Reykjavík.
Lullaby for gymrats, 2024
Monothtongs, 2024
Monothtongs, 2024
Pictures from a performance on the exhibition opening by the duo Andlit (Andri Björgvinsson & Arnljótur Sigurðsson) performing an improvised articifial vowel based composition.
2021
“St. Emi” consists of a video placed within a triptych made from black walnut. Beside the video, I present the automatically generated subtitles that YouTube produced from the audio track. The video itself shows the rapper Eminem performing an eight-minute loop of randomly generated letters, a nonsensical text spoken in Eminem’s voice through speech-synthesis. This audio is then lip-synced to the image using an early version of the Wav2Lip technology.
Images from the group exhibition “Snúrusúpa” in Reykjavík City Hall in 2022.
The Chosen Ones
The Chosen Ones was a solo exhibition in a series of exhibitions where all participating artist got a list of objects where they had to use at least three objects of the list in the exhibition.
I took the decicion of using only objects from the list and built the exhibition from that. The objects I used as props in a photoshoot with the curators (their bodies were also on the list), the photographs were a part of the exhibition and the objects used as props were re-used in a installation in the exhibition space.
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