AIVAG: On Precarity and Adversity for Artists of Foreign Origins in Iceland, Artist Visa and CHANGE.

The second episode of the second season of Icelandic Art Center’s #podcast ‘Out There’ is out there! (link in bio) The episode includes conversation with Becky Forsythe @bforsythe and Þórhildur Tinna Sigurðardóttir @tindilfaetta and the Artist in Iceland Visa Action Group @aiv.ag members Wiola Ujazdowska @wiola.ujazdowska and Bryndís Björnsdóttir aka. Dísa @di_official_sa. AIVAG is an advocacy group working towards the possibility of greater accessibility to residency permits for artists in Iceland. Dísa and Wiola are both practicing artists themselves, or art workers as Wiola prefers to describe her artistic and curatorial practice. In the episode Becky and Tinna get to know AIVAG’s activities and ambitions, contemplate the precarity of being an artist of foreign origin in Iceland and have the chance to discuss with Wiola and Dísa about their artistic work and recent projects. — Created and produced by the Icelandic Art Center, Out There brings co-hosts Becky Forsythe and Þórhildur Tinna Sigurðardóttir in conversation with artists, curators and art professionals.

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Created and produced by the Icelandic Art Centre, recorded in 101 Studio in Reykjavík, Out There explores what is out there/is out and about in the contemporary art (scene) in Iceland, between artists, curators and creative professionals, with conversations led by Becky Forsythe and Þórhildur Tinna Sigurðardóttir. Icelandic Art Center’s podcast Out There brings these things into focus and is a portal reflective of place and our present moment; a widened view that offers impressions of the Icelandic art scene, here and now.