Intimacy Circus
With The Icelandic Love Corporation (1996-2016)
2004-2008
Balancing Globe
Circus Tent for Two
Ouija Board
Crystal Rain
Installation view - Árnesinga Art Museum. 2005
Balancing Globe
Intimacy Circus - Wall inscription / Red candy
Installation view - Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens. 2004
Intimacy Circus - Performance, Sirkus. Frieze Art Fair. 2008
Intimacy Circus - Performance, Sirkus. Frieze Art Fair. 2008
Intimacy Circus - Performance, Sirkus. Frieze Art Fair. 2008
Intimacy Circus - Performance, Sirkus. Frieze Art Fair. 2008
Intimacy Circus - Performance, Sirkus. Frieze Art Fair. 2008
Intimacy Circus - Performance, Sirkus. Frieze Art Fair. 2008
Intimacy Circus - Performance, Sirkus. Frieze Art Fair. 2008
Intimacy Circus - Performance, Sirkus. Frieze Art Fair. 2008
Intimacy Circus - Performance, Sirkus. Frieze Art Fair. 2008
Intimacy Circus - Performance, Sirkus. Frieze Art Fair. 2008
Intimacy Circus - Performance, Sirkus. Frieze Art Fair. 2008
Intimacy Circus - Performance, McCarren Park. New York. 2004
Intimacy Circus - Performance, McCarren Park. New York. 2004
Intimacy Circus - Performance, McCarren Park. New York. 2004
Intimacy Circus - Performance, McCarren Park. New York. 2004
Intimacy Circus - Performance, McCarren Park. New York. 2004
Intimacy Circus - Performance, McCarren Park. New York. 2004
Intimacy Circus - Performance, McCarren Park. New York. 2004
Ouja Board - Jack the Pelican Presents. New York. 2004
Ouja Board - smashed. Jack the Pelican Presents. New York. 2004
Installation view - Jack the Pelican Presents. New York. 2004
Bald Eagle - Jack the Pelican Presents. New York. 2004
Installation view - Jack the Pelican Presents. New York. 2004
Intimacy Circus
Video documentation of the performance. At The Frieze Art Fair, inside the reconstructed Reykjavík bar, Sirkus, an art installation by Kling&Bang Gallery. Cameras: Bjarni Grímsson, Thorgeir Gudmundsson, Úlfur Grönvold and Magnús Árnason. Editing: Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir. 2008.
Intimacy Circus
With The Icelandic Love Corporation (1996-2016)
2004-2008
From 2004 to 2005, The Icelandic Love Corporation: Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir, Jóní Jónsdóttir and Eirún Sigurðardóttir performed and exhibited sculptures and photographs under the constellation name Intimacy Circus: at the Nordic Excellence, Stockholm, Sweden - IJs/Ice, Museum Dhont Dhanens, Ghent, Belgium - Motel Mozaique Festival, Rotterdam - Tivoli, LA Art Museum, Hveragerði, Iceland and for their solo exhibition at Jack the Pelican Presents, New York. There they also performed in McCarren Park. Photos by Elisabet Davidsdottir.
The sculptures and photographs of Intimacy Circus have, a rather calm and clean aura while the performance was more on the gory side of life.
The Intimacy Circus performance is a remix of three performances: The Kiss Performance, The Angel Performance (the two first ILC performances), and Crystal Rain, a collaboration with Ragnar Kjartansson.
These are the main ingredients of Intimacy Circus: Kissing. Cutting off the wings. Celebration.Mayhem
In 2008 ILC performed the legendary performance, Intimacy Circus, for the last time at the Frieze Art Fair, London in the reconstructed Reykjavík bar, Sirkus, an art installation by Kling&Bang Gallery. Photos by Bjarni Grímsson
The performance, which is a remix of several early performances done by The Corporation was appropriate for the occasion as the inspiration for some of its elements is interwoven in many ways with the spirit of the bar Sirkus itself and it’s fate.
“Sacrifices are made willingly, in a gory manner, bringing on a necessary catharsis and a new beginning. This is done with a feeling of uncontrolled delinquent joy. A beautiful disaster.” - ILC,