SEQUENCES Art Festival is held in the capital of Iceland, Reykjavik. Its emphasis is time-based work, performance, sound art, video and music.
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The aim of the annual independent art festival is to celebrate and exhibit cutting-edge visual art with a special emphasis on art in public/urban spaces. SEQUENCES features time-based art - such as performance, video and sound art - and creates a cross-platform for these art forms as well as music and design. SEQUENCES is the first art festival in Iceland to focus on visual art alone and is an offspring of the dynamic art scene that thrives in Reykjavik. The festival is a venue for young artists to exhibit their work and connect with foreign artists who work in similar or in the same media. More than two hundred artists from around the world have participated in the festival. Along with the artist-run galleries, the bigger museums and institutions in Iceland have participated as well: Reykjavik Art Museum, i8, Safn, Gallery Turpentine and The National Museum of Iceland.
For SEQUENCES Art Festival in 2008 (held October 11 to 17) the curatorial board decided to acknowledge renowned artists for their notable contribution to real-time art mediums. The honorary artist of SEQUENCES 2008 was the Icelandic artist Rúrí.
The fourth SEQUENCES Art Festival will be held in 2009 (October 31 to November 7, 2009). This years honorary artist will be 80 year old concept art legend Magnús Pálsson. Born in East-Iceland in 1929, Pálsson studied theatre design and art in the early 1950s and became an active participant in Iceland's embryonic avant-garde, collaborating with alternative theatre groups as well as with other artists such as Dieter Roth and later the SÚM-group of young artists that formed in 1965. International and Icelandic artists will come together for various projects but a special focus will be on live events this year.
SEQUENCES was initiated in Reykjavik in 2006 at first by artist Bryndís Hrönn Ragnarsdóttir, at the time the director of the board of the Living Art Museum and Christian Schoen the director of the Center for Icelandic Art at the time. The festival was founded by four artist-run galleries: The Living Art Museum, Kling & Bang Gallery, The Dwarf Gallery and Gallery Bananananas (closed since 2007) — as well as the Center for Icelandic Art (CIA.IS). For the first time, the SEQUENCES Festival took place in different locations in the city center of Reykjavik, accompanied by exhibitions and video / film nights. A total of 140 participants from 20 different countries showed their artwork at the festival.[1]
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