HEIMIR (2025) - 2025
A performance-lecture (25 minutes) that traces the story of an insurance company that (probably) went out of business in the early 70s when regulation of the insurance sector was being introduced in Iceland. The lecture is structured around the impulse to organize visual data more effectively through metadata in a story that is as much about the historical context of regulative legislation of the financial sector as it is about the attempt to draw a cognitive map of a contemporary reality through the logic of the internet search.
‘Heimir (2025)’ was delivered in the historic site of the reading room in The House of Collections (Safnahúsið) within the program of Sequences XII and accompanied by a site-specific installation, Examples and Rules of Use.
The exhibition is supported by Starfslaunasjóður listamanna and Myndlistarsjóður.