Freya Björg Olafson  is an artist living and working in Canada. More...

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Recently premiered & currently booking tour dates for HYPER_ 

Currently working on the forthcoming series [LIMINAL]

& performance work CPA [Consistent Partial Attention]

 

Upcoming residency at SÍM - THE ASSOCIATION OF ICELANDIC VISUAL ARTISTS | August 2014

 

Upcoming Exhibitions: Bauhaus Archiv | October 2015 | Berlin

                                    Satellite Gallery | July 2014 | Vancouver

 

Video work ‘2B’ featured in online catalogue: 

http://welcometoscreenland.com/

 

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A FEW RECENT ENGAGEMENTS 

 

March 2014 Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art - Work in ‘Sensing The Future: Moholy Nagy, Media and the Arts’ curated by Dr. Oliver Botar

 

October 2013 Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency with video artist / filmmaker Charles Atlas

 

November 2013 La Pocha Nostra performance workshop with Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Saul Lopez-Garcia 

 

2013 - 2014  Attended ISPA - International Society for Performing Arts 27th Congress in Wroclaw, Poland  & 28th Congress in NYC as a member of the Canada Council Legacy Program

 

September 5 - 7 HYPER_ World Premiere of my new video / performance work co-presented with núna (now)

 

June-July 2013 Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art - Summer Institute Residency with Roy Ascott, Eduardo Kac, Oliver Botar & Ken Gregory

 

May 2013  Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency with Coco Fusco

 

Performances 2013 Canadian tour of AVATAR - High Performance Rodeo (Calgary), Capitol Theatre (Moncton), Crimson Coast Dance (Nanaimo), Charlotte Street Arts (Fredericton)

 

Summer 2012 Residency at EMPAC - Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center to develop HYPER_

 

Ongoing  member of the núna (now) Curatorial Committee programming a series of events Spring 2014