The Municipal Art Museum, Selfoss south Iceland.
This performance was a commentary on the large dam being constructed in the Icelandic highlands, threatening waterfalls, rivers, and birdlife. The idea was that soon, the only falling waters we would have left might be the flush in our toilets.
I moved through the space among the audience, wearing the beautiful national costume Skautbúningur of the Lady of the Mountain (Fjallkonan), loudly reciting an ambiguous and provocative poem by the Icelandic poet/musician Sverrir Stormsker. One by one, I removed the pieces of the costume, ending up standing in the wool underwear called the “Fatherland.”
In this context, the poem could be interpreted as a reflection on the destruction and violation of our natural environment.
Sara Björnsdóttir 