Sea Ice Saga
In summer of 2017, through the generous support of an ICAT Mini-SEAD Grant for Húnaflói, we Sea Ice Saga(Les Duffield and Rachel Lin Weaver) worked in Iceland on a project set at the intersection of cultural memory, marine ecology, animal industries, and Nordic craft traditions. From a small coastal village, we partnered with master textiles artists, fishermen, sheep farmers, and marine bio-scientists. Our collaborations with community members hybridized time-based media (video, sound), textiles (wool), sculpture (fish skin, ready-made materials), and performance art, and we learned new craft techniques and created works in response to community memory and the complicated ecological challenges of life in the Arctic Atlantic region. While there, we stumbled unexpectedly onto Þórsstofa, the Sea Ice Archive located in Blönduós, Iceland, as part of the Icelandic Textiles Center.
Read more: https://icat.vt.edu/projects/2018-201...