24 May 2011

The Skaftfell & Dieter Roth Academy Workshop

The core of the workshop is action; going from idea to a finished product in the span of two weeks in the small fishing village of Seyðisfjörður located in the narrow East-fjords of Iceland.

The workshop is a close collaboration of Skaftfell Center for Visual Art and the Dieter Roth Academy. The workshop is developed out of very successful ten year collaboration with the Icelandic Art Academy and the Dieter Roth Academy.

Program
During the two-week workshop the students will live and work in surroundings very different from the average academical environment. The program is based on intense field work, group discussions, lectures and independent project work conducted by a professor of the Dieter Roth Academy. The focus of the course is both conceptual and empirical, and both local and global. The studio is the whole fjord; its nature, history, inhabitants and atmosphere. The students are provided with working facilities at various workshops and industries in town, depending on their field of interest.

Final Result
The final result is presented as an exhibition, an event of discussion, performances, publication or whatever method is appropriate for the group in question. The workshops professor will give all the students an independent evaluation.

Program objective
• The students will gain skills in working as artists outside of the academical environment, and outside of their natural environment.
• The student will gain experience and professional insight into a medium of choice by working with the towns' professional craftsmen and the professor of the workshop.
• The students will gain skills in working under pressure and going from an idea to a finished product in a short span of time.

For prices, practical info and more about Skaftfell and the Dieter Roth Academy see the webpage skaftfell.is/en/workshopsseminars/