Berglind Hreiðarsdóttir and Rhona Eve Clews Opening to the Other.

Opening to the Other: Rhona Eve Clews and Berglind Hreiðarsdóttir have been involved with long distance collaboration, letter writing and intermittent meetings through (Arts)Territory Exchange since 2018. Their collaboration involves their respective performative and documentary photography practices and their interests in landscape, botany, water, embodied practices, becoming landscape and feminist ecology.

See below: Images from their exchange and a conversation they recorded for the conference Iceland. Mobility, Spatiality, Virtuality. Defining new touristic relationships through remote encounters, distant desires and embodied experiences. As well as a conversation between Rhona and DJ Alex Knight of Fatcat records and a playlist provided specially for the event.

Images from the collaboration between Rhona Eve Clews and Berglind Hreiðarsdóttir.

Mix to accompany Rhona’s conversation with Alex Knight

Collaborative doudle exposure image between Rhona and Berglind.

Berglind Hreiðarsdóttir is a visual artist from Hafnarfjörður, Iceland. After completing her studies at the Iceland University of the Arts she contributed to setting up Studio B6 in Reykjavík; a darkroom space and gallery. In 2020 she moved to Malmo where she focuses on darkroom photographic practices and researches her own connections to the photographic object. Since May 2018 she has been part of Arts Territory Exchange, communicating via letters, images, films and video files with Rhona Eve Clews as a collaborative method of creating art. Currently studying horticulture in hopes of developing interdisciplinary practice between the plant subject and art. 

http://www.berglindhreidarsdottir.com

Rhona Eve Clews: Whether melting her body into the innards of her home photocopier, filming erupting geyser postcards found on eBay or crawling on her belly to enter macro-pollen perspectives, Rhona works with image, text and performance, poetry, humour, SF and trauma theory to collapse ecological distance. Physically performing her compulsion to meld minds with multiple subjectivities and clamber inside other ‘bodies,’ she draws on her past of growing up a hippie and training as a psychologist and psychic to re-situate photography, writing and fimmaking into expanded, somatic, eco-feminist practices led by feeling, equality, sensuality and mutuality.She has performed for Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, USA and previous exhibitions include 'VEGETATE'; 'Future Impermanent'; 'Envisioning Other Worlds' and 'New Approaches to Photography'. She has completed residencies in Australia, USA and UK and holds a Bachelors in Psychology, a Postgraduate Diploma in Photography and an MFA in Fine Art (Media) from Slade School of Fine Art. Rhona was Guest editor for the SF and contemporary art issue of 'Vector', the academic journal of the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) and is a recent recipient of Arts Catalyst’ School of Broadcasting (2020-21) exploring the potential of collective broadcast for relationship, dialogue and exchange. She teaches expanded photography and writing and has co-curated exhibitions including 'Women in Photography' (2019) and 'you’re mulchy green, you’re verdant matter' (2019).