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Artistic Interpretation - Throughout

Collected by: KRIA - The Icelandic Constitution Archives

Archived since: Nov, 2020

Description:

This collection looks at the role artists, and artistic expression played in the constitution-writing process. In addition, the collection captures songs, movies, paintings, public exhibitions, and creative outputs made from inspiration from the 2011 constitution.

Subject:   Government Society & Culture Arts & Humanities

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Title: Libia Castro and Olafur Olafsson - ArtReview

URL: https://artreview.com/march-2009-futuregreats-castro-and-olafsson/

Description: Libia Castro and Olafur Olafsson are international artists that record and investigate contemporary societies.

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Subject:   Iceland. Stjórnarskrá

Title: How Iceland Crowdsourced A New Constitution (Lawrence Lessig)

URL: https://bitchute.com/video/aMHAtJhd3ziM/

Description: A description of how Iceland's economy collapsed and what the people did to have new order, which was to make a new constitution and how they did so.

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Subject:   Iceland. Stjórnarskrá

Title: Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson and The Magic Team: Magic Meeting - A Decade On - Announcements - e-flux

URL: https://e-flux.com/announcements/383622/libia-castro-lafur-lafsson-and-the-magic-teammagic-meeting-a-decade-on/

Description: Spanish-Icelandic artist duo, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson showcase "The Magic Team", a performance that merges art and activism and uses the new constitution as their subject.

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Subject:   Iceland. Stjórnarskrá

Title: Constitution of Iceland to Be Sung

URL: https://icelandreview.com/news/constitution-iceland-be-sung/

Description: Artists Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson organize event to sing the new Icelandic constitution

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Subject:   Iceland. Stjórnarskrá

Title: Political Portraits and Other New Art Exhibits

URL: https://icelandreview.com/news/political-portraits-and-other-new-art-exhibits/

Description: British Iceland-based artist Nikhil Kirsh created a portrait of the Constitutional Council to be shown in a exhibition along with other work of his.

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Subject:   Iceland. Stjórnarskrá

Title: UK Artist to Paint Iceland’s Constitutional Council

URL: https://icelandreview.com/news/uk-artist-paint-iceland’s-constitutional-council/

Description: London Artist Nikhil Kirsh painted a portrait of the Constitutional Council

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Subject:   Iceland. Stjórnarskrá

Title: UK Artist Portrays “New Renaissance” in Iceland

URL: https://icelandreview.com/news/uk-artist-portrays-%E2%80%9Cnew-renaissance%E2%80%9D-iceland/

Description: Nikhil Nathan Kirsh, a portrait artist from London opens an exhibition, entitled “UK Artist Still Claims a New Renaissance Is Coming to Iceland”, showing his entire collection

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Subject:   Iceland. Stjórnarskrá

Title: ‘Where is the new constitution?’ Activist art and the politics of space in Iceland - Liam O’Farrell, Katrín Oddsdóttir, 2023

URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23996544231201632

Description: In 2008, Iceland experienced one of the largest banking crashes in history. Protests against the government emerged, and as a response the country set in motion a process to rewrite its constitution. In 2011 the world’s first ‘crowdsourced constitution’ was presented to Parliament, following which two-thirds of voters in a national referendum said “yes” to the document being the basis for the Constitution of Iceland. Despite this, successive governments have repeatedly failed to implement constitutional reform. In this context, grassroots activists have campaigned to keep the issue of the new constitution alive, including through an artistic campaign. This article is the first study of this art and consideration of how Iceland’s political struggles have played out in space. Applying Duncombe’s methodology of affective effect, we present an evidence-based case of art achieving quantifiable goals, suggesting broader social change. Given that policies pursued by the government have changed the nature and use of space in the country, activist art is shown to have a significant capacity to reinvigorate the democratic functions of space, with effects that can be observed both within and without political institutions.

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Title: Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson

URL: https://libia-olafur.com/

Description: A new website coming soon of the artwork made by artists Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson.

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Subject:   Iceland. Stjórnarskrá

Title: Open call – Audio recordings of selected articles from the new Constitutional proposal! | Reykjavik Arts Festival

URL: https://listahatid.is/en/news/open-call-audio-recordings-of-selected-articles-from-the-new-constitutional-proposal/

Description: Reykjavík Arts Festival is showcasing a performance by Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson that brings together all 114 articles of the new Icelandic Constitutional Proposal from 2011.

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Subject:   Iceland. Stjórnarskrá

Title: A Land Shaped by Women

URL: https://redbull.com/us-en/films/a-land-shaped-by-women/

Description: As pro snowboarders who’ve fought for gender parity in their sport, Anne-Flore Marxer and Aline Bock spend winter in Iceland, the UN's number one-ranked nation for gender equality.

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Subject:   Iceland. Stjórnarskrá

Title: Stanford conference to explore right to information and technology

URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20161212201159/https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/libtech/news/stanford_conference_to_explore_right_to_information_and_technology_20130304/

Description: An article detailing the move towards technology and it's role to play in increasing transparency and accountability in democratic institutions. One of the speakers at the Program on Liberation Technology at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL)'s conference between March 11-12 2013 was former Chief Technology Officer of the Icelandic Constitutional Council Finnur Magnusson. He spoke of the role of the Icelandic community on Facebook and Twitter in re-drafting their own constitution as a pure form of direct democracy.

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Title: Blueberry Soup Official Trailer - YouTube

URL: https://youtube.com/watch?v=48nsbg2VnRs/

Description: A trailer for the documentary film 'Blueberry Soup', which documents the repercussions of the economic collapse 2008, which ultimately placed more power in the hands of the people to redraft a new constitution. A story of the power of the people, media and an entry point into comparative experiences of the economic collapse across the world.

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