1 channel video, Stereo sound, 4:04 minutes (2025)
Bylgjunnar Dans (Dancing Waves) reflects on how family stories are passed through generations and become part of collective memory. It centers on the 1920 shipwreck of a Faroese fishing ship in the Outer Hebrides.
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.
The composition intertwines hydrophone recordings with excerpts from the 1920 poem, imagining water as a medium that connects time, space, and memory.
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.
The composition intertwines hydrophone recordings with excerpts from the 1920 poem, imagining water as a medium that connects time, space, and memory.
Bylgjunnar Dans features an excerpt from the poem ‘Puritan’, by J.R. First printed in Dimmalætting, 1920.