Iceland Airwaves and Urban Nation Berlin
are excited to announce the 2015 inaugural collaboration that will kick
of their ongoing ‘WALLPOETRY’ series.Wall Poetry stands for the curator
Yasha Young’s (Urban Nation Berlin) idea to connect more creative minds
from all over the world with one another and encourage artistic and
creative exchange far beyond the inside of a gallery or the recording
studio. “The goal was to take the invisible creative process when a
painter listens to a record while painting or a musician sees a certain
painting or art installation and wants to incorporate the emotional
experience and inspiration in her or his songs and connect this process
between the two on a very special collaborative platform.” Yasha
Young
“This first edition of ‘WALLPOETRY’ is dedicated to nurture the
exchange and create opportunities between creative genres and cultures.
It is amazing what and how much we learn about one another and a country
when actually immersing into the culture for a full two weeks. The
dialogues and ideas that emerge and the power and beauty of cultures
working with one another is something we can learn from especially in
today’s world.”Yasha Young
”Iceland Airwaves is very excited about the
project and can´t wait to make Reykjavik even more beautiful. We loved
the idea to combine these two artforms to make something really amazing
and thought this was a great add on to the festival experience.” Henny
M. FrímannsdottirIceland Airwaves under the curatorial lead of Henny
María Frímannsdottir invited musicians from IA’s amazing 2015 line up to
connect with a group of international street artists that Yasha Young,
Director of Urban Nation Berlin curated as collaborative partners. These
two groups got the task to transform city walls of Reykjavík into
canvases for amazing artwork. After a careful selection the artists were
connected with each other in pairs.
The musicians were asked to provide
the street artists with a song, lyrics or poetry especially chosen or
written for this project. The visual artists were provided a city wall
as surface for the large scale work by curators Frímannsdóttir and Young
and the sketching began. The goal of this project was to make the art
as well as the creative spirit of collaboration across the globe even
more accessible and visible not only to the residents of Reykjavík but
all festival visitors, visitors in general and the artistic community.
To make the experience even more powerful the entire project of the
collaboration of music and art was to be executed on the selected walls
around Reykjavík city center over the course of only 14 days come rain
or shine. No entry fees no tickets no opening hours. Simply art and
creative energy for everyone. We wanted to bring a little of Berlin and
several other countries to the city of Reykjavík and show the beauty of
Iceland and the innovative spirit it carries to creatives from all
around the world. In return Iceland will come and bring some of its
music and workshops to the institution in Berlin 2017.
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