Part-protest, part-sculpture, part-ceremony.
Sometimes there is an experience that is difficult to turn into words, and I am from Reykjavik is certainly one of those. The project is complex and meandering and requires some patience and thought. Much more a conceptual artwork than dance, it is a slow unfold of someone claiming a space, building a shelter, taking it down.
This is a happening that the artist hopes you stumble upon rather than arrive at with intention. Rather, you arrive, with your own emotional landscape and stay to patiently understand what you witness.
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Artist: Sonia Hughes
Architect: Lee Ivett
Photographer: Solomon Hughes
Website designer: Lisa Mattocks
Film maker: Juliet Ellis
Dress designer: Claudette Joseph
Teacups: Susan Cragg
Artist midwives: Linda Brogan, Adeola Dewis, Juliet Ellis, Jo Fong, Rabab Ghazoul, Owen Griffiths, Jane Mason, Humberto Velez, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, Fiona Wright
Production Manager: Greg Akehurst/Rob Athorn
Producer: Richard Morgan
A SPILL FESTIVAL, JERWOOD ARTS AND LIFT COMMISSION
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FESTSPILLENE I NORD-NORGE, SPRING PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL, ILT FESTIVAL AND ROYAL DOCKS
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Sonia is currently Associate Artist to Festspillene i Nord-Norge in Harstad. Previously she
collaborated with Quarantine as writer, performer, co-creator including their award-winning Susan & Darren and Wallflower. She also wrote Jeremy Deller’s MIF17 opening event, What is the City, but the People? She has been doing this art shbizzle for over 20 years only now becoming an artist in her own right. What do we want?!… Is a poster exhibition of people’s desires for a proximate Utopia, made for the Great Exhibition of the North with Lisa Mattocks. Jo Fong and Sonia’s project Neither Here Nor There delves into where people live, what makes them cross, what can they do and in the end what really matters. Essentially a series of questions and conversations between the
Audience. These two works and IAFR mark out new territories Sonia is interested in – addressing the complexity of big ideas but close up with an active co-creative audience.
SOCIALS
www.iamfromreykjavik.com
I am from Reykjavik | Facebook
Sonia Hughes (@soniahughes192) • Instagram photos and videos
REVIEWS
Edinburgh Fringe 2022 review: I Am From Reykjavik – The Skinny
Sonia Hughes ‘I am from Reykjavik’ | review – dance art journal (wordpress.com)
Take Over 2022 — Corridor8
