#nunanow

[thismaddesire]

be the #change you want to see in the universe. great night out last night with @sigrunstella1 and @lindyvopnfjord. you get the #icelanders together and it is a strong force. takk fyrir. i needed to cut loose for a minute. #logbergheimskringla one time i met lindy in st. catharines, ontario, for fun as i was just being polite and tagging along with my buddy @waxmannequin. entering the venue, we saw all of these paintings with #icelandic words and especially #heim which means #home. i thought lindy must have brought these. and we both laughed as we were just in the right place at the right time. weeks later, i learned they were from a non-Icelandic person who just felt #inspiredbyiceland. #nyjaisland #nunanow #icelandmusicexport #icelandair new #wow #wereallalivetogether #AmericanDream (at Hamilton, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx5Y4j8nrgG/?igshid=1ug1chmelo81a

[windowwinnipeg]

WINDOW 24: Helga Jakobson (June 2016)

WINNIPEG'S ONLY 24 HOUR ARTIST-RUN CENTRE PRESENTS HELGA JAKOBSON

Location: Artspace Building, corner of Bannatyne @ Arthur [sidewalk level]

window is pleased to present our twenty-fourth installation, Sigillum Runica (2016), by Helga Jakobson

Descending from a long line of self proclaimed healers and seers, much of Helga Jakobson’s practice stems from a desire to connect with this personal history as catalyst connecting with the unknown, indefinable and occult. Being of Icelandic lineage, she’s interested in the power of story telling, the love of cultural production and the almost pragmatic acceptance of intuition and the arcane within her family line, but also what she has perceived in most Icelanders.

Sigillum Runica, is a reinterpretation of the occultist Austin Osman Spare’s method of sigil magick. Sigillum Runica blends this method with traditional Icelandic stave formations in a symbolic representation of desired outcomes.

The Grave of the Whale heard through the pane of Window is a blend of stories told through digital matrilineal knowledge sharing. Jakobson has recorded herself reading tales told by her Lang Amma, and her mother before her; and blended these recordings together with audio files from Skype calls with the artist’s mother, Amma, and aunts. The lack of physical connection during the exchange of these stories is glitchy and sometimes frustratingly problematic in the same way that the retelling of these stories is. Forgotten details, pauses, contradictions and disconnections are the moments focused on in this piece. Leaving the tales unrecognizable in their entirety, the stories play a secondary role as the action of collecting them becomes the highlight of this work. Exploring feminine methods of knowledge sharing as a traditional system becomes more important as an act than the documentation of the narratives. This work is a reflection on journeying towards oracular visions; the resulting piece is in turn echoic and trancelike.

These sigils can be found around Winnipeg's Exchange District in the form of posters with links to more information available online.

About the Artist

Helga Jakobson is an artist from Winnipeg, Canada, currently based and pursuing her MFA in the Netherlands, she received her BFA with Honours from the University of Manitoba in 2013.

Her work proposes new methods for cultural shifts towards reverence of ecology, women, and the alchemic capacities of technology. Increasingly she finds the need to explore traditional methodologies of autonomous healing through the implementation of new systems which look to mythology, occultism and witchcraft in synonymity with environmentalism and through promotion of biophillia and autonomy. http://www.helgajakobson.com

Sigillum Runica by Helga Jakobson is organized by the tremendous Synonym Art Consultation as part of the multi-venue exhibition SINCE THEN, curated by Kegan McFadden for núna (now), recognizing ten years of the Iceland Canada Art Convergence. http://www.synonymartconsultation.com http://nunanow.com

[ianmcc]

Made it into this epic men's shop just at 5:55! (Shops close at 6!) turns out the fellow helping me played at #NunaNow #wpg2isl #iceland #reykjavik (at Herrafataverzlun Kormáks Og Skjaldar)

[snorrihelgason]

In Winnipeg, Manitoba. #islendingadagurinn #nunanow #vikings #veridedlileg