Artist-on-Loan (2013) – The Festival
Conceived of and curated by Alexander Roberts.

Artist-on-Loan (Reykjavík)

For one week only, starting 2nd April and running until 7th April 2013, three artists will be made available for loan via the Reykjavík City Libraries.

Commissioned by Live Art Research and Development Agency The Festival, Ásrún Magnúsdóttir, Örn Alexander Ámundason and Unnar Örn Auðarsson will be borrowed from the library just in the same way a library user might borrow a book or a dvd.

The artists will be borrowed with specific projects prepared, and will draw upon their own unique artist toolboxes to excavate the daily sites, situations and bodies of the borrower’s daily life.

The project was repeated in Akureyri, Iceland in September 2013, and later in 2014 in Warsaw, Poland in collaboration with C/U Body/Mind Festival.

Artist-on-Loan was produced by The Festival – an experimental performing arts platform with the agenda of experimenting with the festival as a format through various one-off curatorial initiatives. The Festival was founded and artistically led by Ásgerður G. Gunnarsdóttir and Alexander Roberts.