{"id":25545,"date":"2025-08-19T12:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=25545"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:30:06","slug":"jeannette-ehlers-hertta-kiiski-artist-talk","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/event\/jeannette-ehlers-hertta-kiiski-artist-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeannette Ehlers &amp; Hertta Kiiski | Artist talk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>All are welcome to an artist talk with Jeannette Ehlers and Hertta Kiiski, artists of Corpus, Thursday at 5 p.m. in Ger\u00f0arsafn. The talks will be in English. Please note that this is the only time these artists will give talks during the exhibition period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeannette Ehlers (b.1973) is a Danish-Trinidadian<br>artist whose multimedia works\u2013spanning video, performance, and installation\u2013engage with the legacies of colonialism and the African diaspora. Her practice foregrounds the Black body as a site of resistance, ritual, and transformation. Ehlers interrogate show history is inscribed on bodies and landscapes, offering powerful counter-narratives to dominant cultural memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hertta Kiiski (b.1973) is a Finnish artist working across photography, video, installation, and textile. Her work challenges human-centred narratives by emphasizing emotional and ecological interconnectedness with the non-human world. Kiiski\u2019s poetic approach centres empathy, softness, and slowness as modes of resistance and radical attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information about Corpus:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/event\/corpus\/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBEwZk0zS09VQ1QwSEZIeHF5WQEeXyZJGhqJ8humDwPcheEQsmVFlGFjkxAjB2tMWmX9FzXv6dg4JMVRSk53Oq0_aem_68xcydLrtGkagDmU1pkPDw\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/event\/corpus\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Entrance ticket to the museum is valid, free for yearly members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All are welcome to an artist talk with Jeannette Ehlers and Hertta Kiiski, artists of Corpus, Thursday at 5 p.m. in Ger\u00f0arsafn. The talks will be in English. Please note that this is the only time these artists will give talks during the exhibition period. Jeannette Ehlers (b.1973) is a Danish-Trinidadianartist whose multimedia works\u2013spanning video, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25544,"template":"","cultural_house":[214],"event_category":[],"event_tag":[],"event_umbrella":[],"class_list":["post-25545","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cultural_house-gerdarsafn-en"],"acf":{"short_title":"","location":"Ger\u00f0arsafn","event_type":"single","price":"","start_date":"21.08.2025","start_time":"17:00","end_date":"21.08.2025","end_time":"18:30","multiday_schedule":false,"all_day_event":false,"action_button_text":"","action_button_link":"","embeddables":false,"photo_gallery":false,"attachments":false,"related_events":"","video_cover":"","artists":false,"curator":"","pdf_cover":false,"pdf_file":false,"umfjollun":"","performers":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/25545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/25545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cultural_house","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cultural_house?post=25545"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=25545"},{"taxonomy":"event_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_tag?post=25545"},{"taxonomy":"event_umbrella","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_umbrella?post=25545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}