Dunce

15/06/2023

captured in the studio with .s.dottir

Photo by

09/06/2023

Við erum í skýjunum! 🌫 Dunce hlaut tilnefningu til Grímunnar í vikunni sem Sproti ársins. ✨

Það er ómetanlegt að fá svona fallega hvatningu. Takk fyrir okkur og til hamingju öll sem eiga í hlut!

"Tímaritið Dunce er tilnefnt til Sprotans fyrir eftirtektarverða nýsköpun á sviði skrásetningar á danslist, kóreógrafíu og gjörningalist. Dunce veitir listafólki á þessu sviði nýjan vettvang til að eiga samtal, miðla hugleiðingum sínum og halda utan um listform sem í einkenni sínu er hverfult. Dunce er einstaklega vandað í máli og myndum og miðlar íslenskri list utan landsteina ásamt því að tengja saman listamenn hvaðanæva að úr heiminum."

Tilnefningar til Grímunnar – íslensku sviðslistarverðlaunanna, voru kynntar í Tjarnarbíói í kvöld.

25/05/2023

This past week we introduced Dunce in Porto, making the acquaintance of booksellers and discovering some very unique bookstores. Sigurður Atli gave a lecture on artist books and publishing at the University of Porto.
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Sóley Frostadóttir is a choreographer and the founder and editor of Dunce. Sigurður Atli Sigurðsson is a visual artist in charge of art direction with Helga Dögg Ólafsdóttir.

23/05/2023

.livros in pictures. Find your copy of Dunce Magazine amongst this beautiful literary selection.

19/05/2023

This is Dagrún Aðalsteinsdóttir, artist and writer based in Berlin and Reykjavík. She has written two articles for Dunce. Her most recent contribution being "Orientation" published in the 3rd issue. The article is written in relation to her exhibition at in Reykjavík this spring.

Portrait of printed in riso by

16/05/2023

Introducing Dunce Magazine in Porto

16/05/2023

A spread made from the archive by for a chapter dedicated to the in Dunce III 📖

13/05/2023

Dunce is on the go 🔜
Porto here we come!

12/05/2023

"At the moment I am curious about the lifespan of a dancer, and have been for some time [...] I am currently processing the milestone of being over forty."
▫️Vala looks into ageing and the underlying prejudices entangled in theatre tradition, from the uniformity of the corps de ballet to the physical repertoire of dance companies today.▪️

Valgerður Rúnarsdóttir in Dunce III 📖 "The Last Bow: On Dance and the Ageing Body"

Photograph by
At
Words by

11/05/2023

"Every detail matters. It is not exactly about the architecture as such but what exists between the walls. When I move around the room, there is friction which sparks the work. The physicality is embedded in the negative space, the mould."
◽Conveying Physicality: Haraldur Jónsson on inspiration, moulds and the appeal of negative spaces ◽

Haraldur Jónsson is an artist who works simultaneously in various media. In his work he explores phenomena that arise in the lapses between bodily sensation, perception, emotion, and language. His performances take on different guises, inviting the audience to participate and thus gradually becoming an integral element in the work.

Photo 1: Haraldur Jónsson, Crumpled Darkness. Photo by Friðrik Örn Hjaltested.
Photo 2: Haraldur Jónsson, Handschue. 2011.
portrait photo by Melkorka Ólafsdóttir

10/05/2023

Dunce III is in great company at Norma T in Oslo. If in Norway, check it out 📚
--> Norma T, Hallings gate 3 v/ Ruth Maiers plass, St.Hanshaugen, Oslo
www.norma-t.org

09/05/2023

A view of Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir's "Between Fleeting Figures and Invisible Depths" in Dunce III ☁☁☁
---> www.duncemagazine.com



Graphic design & layout by

08/05/2023

Orientation by 📘

Dagrún Aðalsteinsdóttir (b. 1989 in Iceland) is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Berlin and Reykjavík. Dagrún works in various media from performances, texts, and videos to collage drawings. Her work is an attempt to use personal or fictional scenarios and narratives to be in dialogue with how personal value versus collective value can overlap within the context of cultural production.

Photographs by Leifur Wilberg
Graphic design & layout by Helga Dögg Ólafsdóttir
Title page print by

06/05/2023

🔸 Absolute Ambiguity: Visual Artist Sigurður Atli Sigurðsson on the Co-op Print & Friends 🔹

"Print & Friends have always operated on a skewed business model, inventing new standards of value, other than those currently in place. At the National Gallery of Iceland we sold P&F branded cleaning products in the museum store, such as chloride, window cleaner and mouthwash. Each item had a different price tag, the window cleaner was about a hundred euros. The visitors could buy the cleaning products and exchange them for art works in the exhibition hall, which allowed us to bypass the ICOM code of ethics for museums." - in Dunce III.

Sigurður Atli Sigurðsson is an Icelandic visual artist who employs drawing, photography and language through the medium of printmaking and print media. His works deal with the transcription of social and behavioural systems and patterns to provide an angle for an alternative reading. The act of reading is ever-present in Sigurður’s work, which connects to his ongoing involvement with artist’s books and publishing.

Graphic design by

05/05/2023

"There is no distinction made between genders, we are just one whole dancing together." 💫
- Þyrí Huld in Dunce III.

Hringrás (Cycle), 2023, by Þyrí Huld Árnadóttir

Photograph by Saga Sigurðardóttir

Þyrí Huld Árnadóttir started an internship with The Iceland Dance Company in 2010 and joined the company the year after. Since then, she has danced with the company on and off for nine years. As a freelancer, Þyrí has both created her own work and danced for other artists. She created three pieces about the superhero kids Loco and Kicks with Hannes Þór Egilsson in 2014–2018. Along with dancing, teaching and choreographing, Þyrí has also taken on the role of costume designer for various pieces.

04/05/2023

Presenting dancer Þyrí Huld Árnadóttir interviewed by
In Dunce III. 🌟🌟
To read, get your copy sent home at www.duncemagazine.com

Photograph by Saga Sigurðardóttir

01/05/2023

Thank you for a great evening! 💐

30/04/2023

Good morning! ☀️☕️

Aðalheiður Halldórdsdóttir's "Poetics of the Body: a Dancer's Manifesto"


Graphic design:
Visuals

26/04/2023

"The Ritual of Repetition: Encountering Erna Ómarsdóttir’s Choreographic Practices" - DUNCE III. ⚡

“Earlier on, films inspired me, especially horror films. I was obsessed with them, having been traumatised from watching them too young—The first VHS movies, The Exorcist. All the kids in the neighbourhood would gather to watch these horror films together. I had nightmares which would make me afraid of the dark, but then, why is darkness scary? Why are we not scared of the light?” - choreographer and artistic director of the Iceland Dance Company interviewed by

Grab a copy of the newest issue of Dunce at next Saturday at 7 PM ✨

Photograph by Antje Taiga Jandrig

25/04/2023

Release and presale of Dunce III this weekend!! 📖☕

"I'm interested in the question of subjectivity and objectivity, identities and identifications. My works portray that person in between these gaps."
- .matsune in "Negotiation of the Self: Discussing Aspects of Narrative and Storytelling in Performance"

Image 1: Michikazu Matsune, 2021. Mitsouko & Mitsuko. Photo by Elsa Okazaki.
Image 2: Michikazu Matsune, 2015. Dance, if you want to enter my country! Photo by Bernhard Mueller.

24/04/2023

Presenting Michikazu Matsune 💥

Michikazu Matsune is an artist who works in his signature style that incorporates documentarist and conceptualist methods. His works appear in various formats which range from stage-performances, interventions in public and private spaces, to text paintings. His personal approach, characterized both critical and playful at the same time, examines the tension around our cultural ascriptions and social identifications. Michikazu is originally from the seaside town of Kobe and has been based in Vienna since the 1990s.

© .matsune, Spoon on the Moon, from the series Reenacting childhood ideas
Performance, photographic document
2022 (Series since 2015)

23/04/2023

"Between Fleeting Figures and Invisible Depths" by the choreographer Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir will appear in Dunce III 💫

🌫 "We come from water, not only in the sense that we start our lives in the water-filled womb of another person but also our fishy beginnings in evolutionary history. I think the memory of it is stored somewhere deep within our watery bodies and I am fascinated by the potential of these innate and forgotten memories as vehicles of awareness and embodied knowledge." 🌫 - Excerpt from the article by

Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir (b.1988) is a dancer, choreographer and performance maker living in Vienna. She graduated from the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in 2014 with a major in choreography. She has collaborated with Doris Uhlich, Alix Eynaudi, Andrea Maurer, Veza Fernandes and Michikazu Matsune a. o. Her latest work CUMULUS in collaboration with Claudia Lomoschitz was presented in brut Wien and at Reykjavík Dance Festival.

ⓒ Image 1: Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir, risograph printed by
ⓒ Image 2: Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir, 2021. Airy Matters.
ⓒ Image 3: Claudia Lomoschitz and Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir, 2022. CUMULUS. Photo by Moritz Franz Zangl.

22/04/2023

Writing Choreography
“With the removal of objects, language
appeared” - An interview with Mette Edvardsen 🌟


© image 1: Mette Edvardsen, No Title, 2014. Photo by Lilia Mestre.
© image 2: Mette Edvardsen, Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine. Photo by Document Photography - Sydney Biennale (2016).

18/04/2023

Presenting the choreographer Mette Edvardsen - Dunce III


The work of Mette Edvardsen is situated within the performing arts field as a choreographer and performer. Although some of her works explore other media or other formats, such as video, books and writing, her interest is always in their relationship to the performing arts as a practice and a situation. She has worked as a dancer and performer since 1994 for a number of companies and projects, and has developed her own work since 2002. Her project Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine has been ongoing since 2010.

Photo by Antero Hein
Printed in riso by

17/04/2023

"Poetics of the Body" - A dancer's manifesto by Aðalheiður Halldórsdóttir coming soon! 🌟

14/04/2023

Dancers of the Iceland Dance Company Ásgeir Helgi Magnússon and S***a Inoue in rehearsal with Saga Kjerúlf Sigurðardóttir.
Photographs by

"Garden: Thoughts on New Work in Re-making" - by .s.dottir in Dunce III 📖

13/04/2023

Images captured during .s.dottir's rehearsal at the 🍃🌿

"In the Garden, history is processed, recycled (up-cycled), loved and hated.

In the Garden, archived history is inspiration and embodied history is treasure.

In the Garden, we´re interested in the cycling process of influences,

in the creativity that is triggered in the act of processing,

in the living repertoire

in the lasting influence of a moment witnessed"

-Excerpt from Saga's article "Garden: Thoughts on New Work in Re-making"

Photographs by Antje Taiga Jandrig

12/04/2023

Dunce Magazine is collaborating with the Iceland Dance Company this year. We present Saga Kjerúlf Sigurðardóttir, who writes about a work in making 🌾

Saga Kjerúlf Sigurðardóttir is a dancer and performance maker based in Reykjavík. Saga ́s choreographic practice is on one hand motivated by shared pleasure, wild expression and creative chaos of collective and multidisciplinary work, and on the other hand by the personal and psychophysical medium of the dreaming dancing body. Saga is member of performance collectives Marble Crowd, The PPBB and 16 Lovers, and is Associate Professor at IUA–Department of Performing Arts.

Photo by Lilja Birgisdóttir

10/04/2023

Ventura Profana wrote a piece for Dunce Magazine, translated by Rita Davis 📘💫

Image 1: Ventura Profana. RESPLENDANT, video clip, 2019.
Image 2: Portrait of printed in risograph by Sigurður Atli Sigurðsson

04/04/2023

A sermon by Ventura Profana in Dunce III

"Ventura is a living work of art that navigates as a songwriter, singer, evangelist, writer, performer, and visual artist, in constant dialogue with gender and class issues—mainly confronting and expanding the idea of ourselves as a battlefield between the sacred and profane, pure and impure, pleasure and sin." - From the introduction by Rita Davis.

Artwork: Untitled, 2021, by Ventura Profana. Photo by Igor Furtado