No Tomorrow (2022)
No Tomorrow is a new video installation by Kjartansson, choreographer Margrét Bjarnadóttir, and composer Bryce Dessner. Spanning six screens that encircle the room, the installation surrounds viewers with a performance of spatial music written for eight dancers with eight guitars. Recorded from the center of the performers’ space, the installation is kaleidoscopic, capturing the dancers as they weave within each screen and across the channels; their movements and melodies ranging from pastorale to rock and roll. Combining a variety of classic Western references – blue jeans and white t-shirts, the draped silk curtains of mid-20th century song and dance films, as well as lyrics drawn from the Archaic Greek poet Sappho and adventurer Vivant Denon, two sensualists millennia apart – the work spins notions of idealization and iconography.
Director: Ragnar Kjartansson
https://www.luhringaugustine.com/exhibitions/ragnar-kjartansson5#tab:thumbnails
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Aðalheiður Halldórsdóttir as Dancer |
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Anais Barthe as Dancer |
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Elín Signý Ragnarsdóttir as Dancer |
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Halla Thordardottir as Dancer |
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Heba Eir Kjeld as Dancer |
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Hjördís Lilja Örnólfsdóttir as Dancer |
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Inga Maren Rúnarsdóttir as Dancer |
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Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir as Dancer |
| Directing | Ragnar Kjartansson | Director |
