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Atli Bollason
Multi-disciplinary artist
Work

Encoding/Decoding/Recoding
Pink Noise
Contested Territories
 Viewers
Du temps perdu (Bread Factory)
Untethered Memories
Persisting Mnemonic Disorder
Rofar til
 Unfiled skjáskot
Truflað landslag
Unfiled sjónleikar
Sjónsmíð 1
 Snjáandinn
Harpa Lights Project
 Fivefiles
Two Trains
 Electric Disdain
(Not) Static
 Blush
Snow Motion
 Video Hailstorm
Harpa Light Organ
Veröldin er ný
 Spor
Pong
Sandy’s Gallery
Excess #1 (Big Shiny Tunes)

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Selected Performances
 Mixes

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Du temps perdu (Bread Factory)


Video installation.
LIA, Spinnerei, Leipzig.
September 2021.

An installation where a digital video is overlaid with a grid assembled from empty slide frames, 50x50 mm each. Inside each frame, a clip is playing from my personal archive of videos shot in Montréal from 2010-2011.




I studied in Montréal and lived in a loft in the low-income area of  St. Henri. The loft (in an old textile factory, much like Spinnerei) went by the name Bread Factory and had done so for years, long before I moved in there. Along with my roommates Gregory Burton and Reuben Ward we shot scenes from our daily lives in the loft and around our neighbourhood. This was a transformative time for all of us, and my memories from those days have a strong intensity to them.

Here, they are framed as ‘magic’ animated slides, evoking both the joyful familial memories associated with the outdated slide format and the hazy melancholy which always haunts a bygone era. It is a fragmented portrait of a time and a place. Multiple moments unfold simultaneously, collapsing time and obsessing over certain incidents, much as happens in remembrance.

Part of Scaping in Leipzig (2021), Re-rescaping in Limassol (2022) and Cable Soup in Reykjavík City Hall (2023).
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