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We continue getting to know the winners of the scholarship under the \u201eArtist residencies\u201c project. Here you can read about our resident Reet Kudu: https:\/\/tvrc.lt\/en\/meet-the-winner-of-the-scholarship-under-project-artist-residencies-reet-kudu\/<\/a>. And today we would like to introduce another resident – Birnir J\u00f3n Sigur\u00f0sson.<\/p>\n

Birnir J\u00f3n Sigur\u00f0sson is an Icelandic artist working with text, film, theatre as an author and performer. In 2014 -2019 he studied film studies (university of Iceland), theatre and performance (Icelandic University of Arts) and scenography in exchange studies (RESAD Madrid). As well as Reet Kudu, Birnir is interested in theater and experiments a lot. However, they are representatives of different generations, so the themes of the works are quite different.<\/p>\n

Works of \u00a0Birnir often revolve around environmental matters, ecology and climate change. It is an important topic in his work, so he chose to continue working on this theme while residing in Nida as well. The novel Drops is of the climate fiction genre. The different characters in the novel represent different influences and mindsets that affect climate change. Ecology and climate change is a relevent theme in daily life of people living in Nida, so the topics and issues covered in this novel resonates with them, as well as it should resonate with anybody in the world today.<\/p>\n

Birnir J\u00f3n Sigur\u00f0sson works in theatre as well. He is a member of devised theatre groups CGFC and \u00c1st og Kar\u00f3ki. He creates performances, plays and is the founder of t\u00f3ma r\u00fdmi\u00f0 experimental theatre space in Reykjav\u00edk, Iceland. Birnir has hosted various events, such as – experimental theatre nights in t\u00f3ma r\u00fdmi\u00f0, experimental theatre festival Safe fest and Gullmolinn short film festival.<\/p>\n

Although the main creative area for Birnir J\u00f3n Sigur\u00f0sson is theatre and performances, he has written two books as well. \u201eStr\u00e1\u201c (Straws, published in 2019) and \u201eFuglabjargi\u00f0\u201c (The Bird Cliff of Nowhere, 2021). \u201eThe Bird Cliff\u201c is a children\u2019s book telling the story of a remote island off the East coast of Iceland and its inhabitants, various species of birds, over the course of a whole year. In January 2021 \u201eThe Bird Cliff of Nowhere\u201c premiered as an opera for children at the Reykjav\u00edk City Theatre and received very good reviews.<\/p>\n

Birnir J\u00f3n Sigur\u00f0sson is a young artist, creating and experimenting with lots of different art forms and themes. We hope that the scholarship under the \u201eArtist residencies\u201c project inspires this artist with new ideas for future work.<\/p>\n

The \u201cArtist Residencies\u201d project is funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers and is part of project \u201cNeringa \u2013 Lithuanian capital of culture 2021\u201d.<\/p>\n

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  We continue getting to know the winners of the scholarship under the \u201eArtist residencies\u201c project. Here you can read about our resident Reet Kudu: https:\/\/tvrc.lt\/en\/meet-the-winner-of-the-scholarship-under-project-artist-residencies-reet-kudu\/. And today we would like to introduce another resident – Birnir J\u00f3n Sigur\u00f0sson. Birnir J\u00f3n Sigur\u00f0sson is an Icelandic artist working with text, film, theatre as an author and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

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We continue getting to know the winners of the scholarship under the \u201eArtist residencies\u201c project. Here you can read about our resident Reet Kudu: https:\/\/tvrc.lt\/en\/meet-the-winner-of-the-scholarship-under-project-artist-residencies-reet-kudu\/<\/a>. And today we would like to introduce another resident - Birnir Jon Sigurdsson.<\/p>

Birnir Jon Sigurdsson is an Icelandic artist working with text, film, theatre as an author and performer. In 2014 -2019 he studied film studies (university of Iceland), theatre and performance (Icelandic University of Arts) and scenography in exchange studies (RESAD Madrid). As well as Reet Kudu, Birnir is interested in theater and experiments a lot. However, they are representatives of different generations, so the themes of the works are quite different.<\/p>

Works of \u00a0Birnir often revolve around environmental matters, ecology and climate change. It is an important topic in his work, so he chose to continue working on this theme while residing in Nida as well. The novel Drops is of the climate fiction genre. The different characters in the novel represent different influences and mindsets that affect climate change. Ecology and climate change is a relevent theme in daily life of people living in Nida, so the topics and issues covered in this novel resonates with them, as well as it should resonate with anybody in the world today.<\/p>

\u00a0Birnir Jon Sigurdsson works in theatre as well. He is a member of devised theatre groups CGFC and \u00c1st og Kar\u00f3ki. He creates performances, plays and is the founder of t\u00f3ma r\u00fdmi\u00f0 experimental theatre space in Reykjav\u00edk, Iceland. Birnir has hosted various events, such as - experimental theatre nights in t\u00f3ma r\u00fdmi\u00f0, experimental theatre festival Safe fest and Gullmolinn short film festival.<\/p>

Although the main creative area for Birnir Jon Sigurdsson is theatre and performances, he has written two books as well. \u201eStr\u00e1\u201c (Straws, published in 2019) and \u201eFuglabjargi\u00f0\u201c (The Bird Cliff of Nowhere, 2021). \u201eThe Bird Cliff\u201c is a children\u2019s book telling the story of a remote island off the East coast of Iceland and its inhabitants, various species of birds, over the course of a whole year. In January 2021 \u201eThe Bird Cliff of Nowhere\u201c premiered as an opera for children at the Reykjav\u00edk City Theatre and received very good reviews.<\/p>

Birnir Jon Sigurdsson is a young artist, creating and experimenting with lots of different art forms and themes. We hope that the scholarship under the \u201eArtist residencies\u201c project inspires this artist with new ideas for future work.<\/p>

The \u201cArtist Residencies\u201d project is funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers and is part of \u201cNeringa \u2013 an island of culture\u201d.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Meet the Winner of the Scholarship Under the Project \u201cArtist Residencies\u201d \u2013 Birnir J\u00f3n Sigur\u00f0sson - TVRC","description":"  We continue getting to know the winners of the scholarship under the \u201eArtist residencies\u201c project. Here you can read about our resident Reet Kudu: https:"},"iawp_total_views":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvrc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvrc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvrc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvrc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvrc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tvrc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvrc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvrc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvrc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvrc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}