1 channel video, Stereo sound, 4:04 minutes
Bylgjunnar Dans (Dancing Waves) is an audiovisual work reflecting on the 1920 shipwreck of a Faroese fishing ship in the Outer Hebrides.
The composition intertwines hydrophone recordings with excerpts from the 1920 poem Puritan, written about the shipwreck shortly after the event.
There is a multitude of stories about the shipwreck, preserved in oral accounts, newspaper archives, and archival court documents. One such story is found in the poem quoted in the work.
Holding this interconnected web of stories gently, Bylgjunnar Dans (Dancing Waves) considers the possibility of a hydro-feminist, multi-species storytelling through beings such as seashells and seaweed, and imagines water as a medium that connects time, space, and memory.
The poem Puritan by J.R was first printed in Dimmalætting, 1920
Exhibited at ‘Transient’, Gegend Gallerie, London (2025)