WHAT AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE?
Performance, 25 min. 2016
And if they reach you crawling under
They’re gonna kick you and send you
Back to where you came from
And you’ll have to start all over.
“Is there a doctor in the house?” With crowd interaction and group exorcis through the power of MC-ing as a mad hip hop doctor, Guðmundsson will confuse the theories and practice of Western medicine with Eastern traditions. With the key ingredients of result and reason, he will cook up a mixture, a harmonious remedy for the mental storm forecasted today, tonight, tomorrow. “But I am merely a human, a confused one. My mixture is a prototype, it must be tested. Let’s expose ourselves naked by breaking our icy selves into a million jolly pieces. Let’s thaw each other from the thick block of ice that encapsulates us!” In his rap, Guðmundsson will prepare guests for the works of the festival and poke them with vulnerability, happiness and love.
Do you believe in a life after this one?
Don’t you believe in the lives of other ones?
Then I’m afraid that one day
You’ll fade away
And the best you’ll become is an animal.
Artist's Bio:
Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson (1984) is an Icelander living in Warsaw. He is a storyteller, a performer, a singer, an object maker and an illustrator. Artist has a love for the absurd, by which is meant less an obsessive passion for the ridiculous, nonsensical or the odd, than a tender and caring attitude – he takes care of the absurd, he helps it to develop, and he gives it a place alongside everything else, where it can be your most disturbing neighbour and your best friend. Guðmundsson studied art in Amsterdam at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and Sandberg Institute. He has brought his objects and performances to the Contemporary Art Centre of Vilnius, The Living Art Museum in Reykjavik, Casa del Lago in Mexico City, Cricoteka in Krakow and the Cypriot/Lithuanian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale.