Earthwalkers, performance for Magn Tímafars - Power of Passage. Íslenski bærinn - Austur Meðalholtum 2024. Participants in the performance: Anna Halldórsdóttir, Guðrún Vera Hjartardóttir.
This site-specific performance explores the dialogue between primal elements and the cultural landscape. The artists assume symbolic roles through color-coding: the figure in red embodies the earth, working with raw local clay, while the figure in blue represents liquidity, working with water from a local well.
Through rhythmic movements and the cyclical ritual of molding clay birds, the piece bridges the material and the spiritual. While the audience tracks the tangible clay returning to the soil, the artists remain fixated on its conceptual flight in the sky. The performance culminates in a grounding ritual where silver spheres are embedded in the earth and nourished, completing a poetic meditation on time, nature, and human presence.
