Revisiting ‘The Visitors’ An oral history of Ragnar Kjartansson’s multimedia masterpiece

¹ The Visitors is based on a piece called The End—Rocky Mountains (2009), which Ragnar and Davíð Þór created at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. ² Quotations from Ragnar Kjartansson are from a 2013 interview with Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, and correspondence with the artist.

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Ragnar Kjartansson. The Visitors. 2012. Nine-channel video (color, sound). 64 min. Jointly owned by The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, acquired through the generosity of Mimi Haas and Helen Schwab. 636.2013.a-i. © 2024 Ragnar Kjartansson.

Ragnar Kjartansson The Visitors / Interview for FM4 YouTube

IN "The Visitors," a nine-screen video installation by Ragnar Kjartansson that will have its first American showing next month, the artist lies in a pedestal bathtub almost in a trance,.

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As I meandered around nine large video screens, I experienced Ragnar Kjartansson's "The Visitors" as a series of overlapping sounds and images, a shifting mu.

Ragnar Kjartansson The Visitors (July 20September 22, 2019) The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

531 West 24th Street. Chelsea. Through March 16. Bonhomie and nihilism go hand in hand in "The Visitors," a recent video installation by the talented performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson.

Ragnar Kjartansson, on Repeat The New Yorker

"The Visitors" was an assurance that the world was a place where artmaking could be easy, could fit in seamlessly with friendship and love and long baths, could be as languorous as it was ambitious, as special as it was mundane.

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This presentation of Ragnar Kjartansson's (b. 1976, Reykjavik, Iceland) The Visitors is dedicated to you. The first newly installed exhibition at the museum following months of closure during the global COVID-19 pandemic, The Visitors is a truly beloved artwork in the ICA's permanent collection, one that continually inspires and moves our community.

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The Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, singing and playing guitar in the bath at Rokeby during the recording of "The Visitors." (Elisabet Davids) Connected by headphones, the musicians.

‘The Visitors,’ by Ragnar Kjartansson The New York Times

March 6 - May 9, 2021 Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors, 2012, nine-channel video with sound. Duration: 64 minutes Commissioned by the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich Photo: Elísabet David © Ragnar Kjartansson; Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik

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The Visitors soundtrack has been repressed! Order it on vinyl now: https://thevinylfactory.com/product/the-visitors/In late 2015 The Vinyl Factory presented.

Revisiting ‘The Visitors’ An oral history of Ragnar Kjartansson’s multimedia masterpiece

Ragnar Kjartansson, from The Visitors, 2012 Photograph: The Broad/Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and i8 Gallery, Reykjavík 'Everything is putting on a show'.

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R okeby is a crumbling 43-room mansion in upstate New York, where the descendants of the grand American families the Astors and the Livingstons - as well as their bohemian friends - participate in.

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Time Out says. It may already have toured Europe and America, but Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson's epic nine-screen video installation 'The Visitors' (2012) hasn't lost any of its.

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Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors, 2012. Nine-channel HD video projection, 64 minutes. © Ragnar Kjartansson; courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik. Dates February 25-May 14, 2016 Location UB CFA Gallery Artist List Ragnar Kjartansson Description

‘The Visitors,’ by Ragnar Kjartansson The New York Times

The Visitors is a reference to the title of Abba´s eponymous album that appeared in 1981, which was to be their last. Shortly after the publication the successful pop band broke up. In contrast, his work The Visitors brought Kjartansson international renown, and it was acclaimed by the press.

‘The Visitors,’ by Ragnar Kjartansson The New York Times

Ragnar Kjartansson's performance practice has embraced the entire spectrum of art ever since he began. "The Visitors" consists of nine videos on a scale of 1:1, in which the audience sees different musicians, all friends of Kjartansson's (including Kristín Anna and Gyða Valtýsdóttir, founding sisters of the historic Icelandic band Múm, and Kjartan Sveinsson, keyboard player until.