{"id":734,"date":"2016-02-02T17:56:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T16:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.algorithmics.is\/wordpress\/?p=734"},"modified":"2016-10-22T19:19:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T17:19:38","slug":"the-exhibited-object-has-been-irreversibly-consumed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.algorithmics.is\/wordpress\/en\/2016\/02\/02\/the-exhibited-object-has-been-irreversibly-consumed\/","title":{"rendered":"The exhibited object has been irreversibly consumed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bv1-300x300\"<\/a>In Iceland, the forests are too few to camouflage the rubbish, which is why farm machinery, cars and other old junk generally lie rusting at the back of houses.<\/p>\n

Sometimes you can find real museum pieces, such as an only Rafha range with beautiful spirals that used to be a glowing red.\u00a0 There are certainly plenty of people who hold onto things, like the employees of the Sey\u00f0isfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Technical museum. But many Icelanders have no real rapport with old objects and are sceptical about upcycling objects that have become \u2018worthless\u2019.<\/p>\n

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\u00c1sgeir J\u00f3n Emilsson (Geiri): chairs created with aldoses<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nevertheless, the practice of recycling is progressively catching on in Iceland and a few towns are very seriously looking at recycling and converting household waste.\u00a0 For decades, \u00c1sgeir J\u00f3n Emilsson (1931-1999), nicknamed Geiri, a fisherman and artist in Sey\u00f0isfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, had his own system of recycling. He produced picture frames with cigarette packets and his tools transformed tin cans into diaphanous chairs.<\/p>\n

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House of Geiri in Sey\u00f0isfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is highly unlikely that Geiri followed statutory regulations for recycling waste.\u00a0 This obstinate artist had little respect for civil servants or police officers whom he treated like beings from another solar system. Geiri didn’t have an easy life. \u00a0The youngest of 12 siblings, he was born blind in one eye and deaf in one ear.\u00a0 The catalogue published to coincide with an exhibition of his works, by the Skaftfell arts centre in Sey\u00f0isfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur described him as charismatic and serious and always championed the disadvantaged. The Gerahuis, this self-taught artist\u2019s brightly coloured house, can be visited on a visit to Sey\u00f0isfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur.<\/p>\n

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Sm\u00e1munasafn Sverris Hermannssonar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unlike Geiri, Sverrir Hermannsson (1928-2008), originally from Akureyri, was unable to destroy even the lowliest of everyday objects. This carpenter by trade kept each nail and each hammer that ever came into his hands.\u00a0 For example, despite the nail being rusty and bent after pulling out of the wood when renovating the Nonni house, Sverrir was incapable of throwing it away.\u00a0\u00a0 And Sverrir was involved in renovating many a historic building.<\/p>\n

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Sm\u00e1munasafn Sverris Hermannssonar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When his house in Akureyri was on the point overflowing, Sverrir transformed his passion into a public collection.\u00a0\u00a0 To the south of the Eyjafjord, in the Sm\u00e1munasafn Sverris Hermannssonar or „Museum of small things,“ his passion for collecting is documented with great aesthetic sensitivity. While the keys, door handles and drill bits all look somewhat similar, their placement obeys a carefully considered, hidden order that has been lovingly explained.<\/p>\n

\u2018People think that I must be mad … I haven\u2019t thrown away a single pencil since my apprenticeship in 1946 … They see me as eccentric … Isn’t that strange!\u2019\u00a0<\/em>The visitor, who at the beginning can only see grotesque, oppressive clutter of an impulsive hoarder, is gradually won over by the cheerful serenity with which Sverrir presents his hobby.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You then find yourself marvelling at an old pen holder, which a mouse has dragged into its nest and gnawed a bit, before changing its mind.<\/p>\n

So what can we do with an empty can, that supposedly technically outdated Rafha range, and what should we do with last century\u2019s fishing tackle? Over the long-term, museums and art centre won\u2019t solve the problem of recycling alone.\u00a0 Visitors also have to make an effort.<\/p>\n

In Greniv\u00edk, right at the end of Eyjafjord, in a little fishing village, there is a wooden hut that was previously used to hang up the bait on longlines and salt the catch.\u00a0 Tools, fishing lines, working clothes and containers are exhibited.\u00a0 Dried fish hang from the ceiling on green straps.\u00a0 It\u2019s a public holiday and at the entrance they are giving away dried fish with butter.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 These are those fibrous strips commonly sold in preprepared packs.<\/p>\n

Dull cries ring out in front of the cabin.\u00a0 A few Icelanders are trying to shred a large fish.\u00a0 It requires a certain amount of strength to grind down and wear away this dry, brittle mass.\u00a0 So much so that the hammer head flies off and just misses the head of an bystander.\u00a0 Finally, broken up and reduced to fibres, the fish yields and the distribution begins.<\/p>\n

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Relicts in front of \u00datgerdarminjasafnid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While I am still chewing, I discover a green strap close to a rock that was used as an anvil.\u00a0 A suspicion flies through my head, which is confirmed in the hut: the hammer was a museum piece, but so was the fish.\u00a0 I swallow – the exhibited object has been irreversibly consumed.\u00a0 I glance at the circle of eaters and wonder to myself if the Icelanders are taking the issue of recycling just a little too seriously?<\/p>\n

Translation: Jackie Dobble<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"de\"<\/a>Das Exponat ist unwiederbringlich verzehrt<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"fr\"<\/a>L\u00b4objet expos\u00e9 est consomm\u00e9 sans retour<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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