The Plant Becoming Project offers a bus trip around Kleifarvatn in Reykjanes. The trip will offer exercises that help people to connect with their inner plant and re-discover and develop their worldview. A journey through inner and outer landscapes and a holiday away from the everyday human condition that often causes stressful emotions and other problems.
During the journey we will focus on visuals, voice, movement and nurture.We will be exploring each topic through stops on the trip. Including activities such as singing, plant analyses, scale reflections and walking.
A plant becoming journey is both informative and experiential, where participants get the opportunity to connect to their environment in a new way. Our goal is to create influential memories that generate new ways of caring for each other and our environment.
Two trips awailable.
The trip will be approximately 5 hours
You will get: water, lunch and coffee.
About the artists.
Búi Bjarmar Aðalsteinsson is a designer who has been researching the connection of design with other forms of art and examined how ideas about design can be used in a new context. Recently, he has been exploring the boundaries of performance and design, where the qualities of the magnificent moment are brought into everyday life. As the scenery, props, costumes and progressions are woven into the urban landscape and participants get to explore the adventures that are all around us.
Búi graduated from psychology at the University of Iceland, product design from the Iceland Academy of the Arts and social design and art from the Design Academy in Eindhoven. Búi is also a co-founder and service representative of Plant Becoming Project.
Hrefna Lind Lárusdóttir is a performance artists that works across discipline, performance, visual art, music and design. Hrefna´s work is about creating a space where the surreal meets the mundane, where she feels like there is a potential for a juxtaposition and a gap for further conversation about how the ordinary things in life are perceived. Hrefna is one of co-founder of the Post Performance Blues Band, The Plant becoming project, where people can grow their inner plant and curates and teaches artwork in prisons within the project Breaking barriers. Hrefna studied contemporary performance at Naropa University and Art Academy of Iceland.
Stage artist Ragnar Ísleifur Bragason was born in Reykjavik in 1977. For the past years he has been involved in dance- and theater performances with 16lovers and Kriðpleir and also other groups. He has written plays and been teaching at the Iceland Academy of the Arts, and the LungAschool in Seyðisfjörður. He graduated from the Theory and Practice department at The Iceland Academy of the Arts.