Performance & Video
Threshold, then Eraser (2025)
for two dancers & sound poetry choir
Premiered 18 October 2025, Sequences Real-Time Arts Festival XII
Threshold, then Eraser interrogates the underlying anxieties of contemporary life in order to discover the possibility of renewal through human connection. Such anxieties are embodied by the gestures of performers Gígja Jónsdóttir & Tristan Elísabet Birta, their inner turmoil made manifest in the division of a torn duvet, the confinement of a corrugated iron mask, and the nebulous chants of the Nýló Choir.
Performances
18 October 2025 - House of Collections (Reykjavik, IS)
Performers: Gígja Jónsdóttir, Tristan Elísabet Birta, The Nýló Choir
Costume Design (dancers) - Tara & Silla
Costume Design (choir) - Magnús Pálsson
Video Installations - Þórunn Dís Halldórsdóttir & Adam Buffington
II (2016)
for solo performer & double bass
II is an hour-long monodrama for solo performer & double bass. Commissioned and performed by American experimental musician Zach Rowden, II explores the experiential effects of glacial physical movement, in combination with quiet, unsettled sounds and prolonged silences. Cast in the shadows of Beckett, Artaud and Kagel, II occupies its own space, generating a decaying and dejected environment through the subservient relationship between servant and master.
Performances
24 October 2025 - Mengi (Reykjavik, IS)
05 August 2017 - Mengi (Reykjavik, IS)
29 April 2017 - Hartford Art School (West Hartford, CT)
10 April 2017 - Ely Center for Contemporary Art (New Haven, CT)
28 February 2017 - Hartt School of Music (West Hartford, CT)
Mekas Told Me To (2020-2022)
Mekas Told Me To is a series of phone videos capturing a recurring enactment of Instruction (1996) by Jonas Mekas: “Do it…move your finger up and down for one minute, every morning.”
Parts I & II premiered 15 October 2021 at Mengi (Reykjavik, IS); Reconfigured as temporary video installation at Mengi, 20-24 November 2021
