Ord Kraft Literature Festival, Aalborg

Take one typewriter ...

a rubber stamp ...

and a Danish book artist ...

and the result... 

UDKANT

a pop book

containing a poem 

Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck and I will be creating copies of this book 

and giving them away to the public at OrdKraft in Aalborg 

this weekend 19 - 21 April 2012.

'Udkant' or 'On the margins' is the theme of the

Doverodde Book Arts Festival

17 - 20 May 2012.

Residency on the Limfjord

During April and May 2012 I will be writer-in-residence at the Book Arts Center at the Limfjordscentret, located in a historic merchant’s building by the Limfjord in North Jutland, Denmark. This month-long residency will culminate in a solo exhibition at the Doverodde Book Arts Festival IV and Symposium which runs from 17 – 21 May. The theme of this year’s festival, which is organised by Mette-Sofie Ambeck, will be Udkant / On the Margins.

Borrowed Bookshelves: 7

Books arranged by height on the shelves of the Icelandic Poetry Centre

in Siglufjörður.

Borrowed Bookshelves: 6

The bookshelf of Guðný Róbertsdóttir (teacher) and Örlygur Kristfinnsson 
(museum director) in Siglufjörður, Iceland.

Exhibition at Herhúsið

Exhibition: Documenting Siglufjörður

Nancy Campbell, Carinne Piekema and Mark Walton 

present work in progress at Herhúsið

28 mars 2012

kl. 20.00

herhusid@simnet.is • Norðurgata 7b, 580 Siglufjörður, Iceland

Herring Heaven

I've been writing about the collections in The Herring Era Museum - Síldarminjasafnið - in Siglufjörður, Iceland. One of my chosen highlights is their collection of food tins dating back to the 1960s, when the fishing industry was booming in the region and exporting herring all over the world. 

So here's a chart of my top ten herring tins: 

Musical Interlude

The long Icelandic nights are an opportunity to organise my films from the past few years. At last, I've made the decision to upload them to YouTube.

Here's the first film. It is a little blurry and indistinct, but I am very fond of it. Turning was filmed on my first night in Greenland, and it features a rotary candlestick with little tin angels which became a favourite talisman.

Many thanks to Caroline Trettine for letting me use her wistful and beautiful song to accompany the film.