Fellowship of Citizens, Emblem (2020), at MicroSite, Gh0stspace
Fellowship of Citizens, Emblem (2020), at MicroSite, Gh0stspace
Fellowship of Citizens, Emblem (2020), at MicroSite, Gh0stspace
Fellowship of Citizens, Emblem (2020), at MicroSite, Gh0stspace
Emblem
Gh0stSpace
2020
Production: Félag Borgara / Fellowship of Citizen.
Art direction: Saemundur Thor Helgason.
Graphic design: Gabríel Markan.
Image source: Earth Archives, accessed 02/06/2653.
Félag Borgara (Fellowship of Citizens) was an interest group founded in the early 21st century with the aim of lobbying for universal basic income in Iceland. The group put in question who and what was considered a citizen. They broadened the notion of citizenship to non-human entities, such as spiders, mountains, roads and bots, bringing attention to the varieties of labour taking place and the multitude of inhabitants residing in a geographical jurisdiction. By doing so, they advocated for an all encompassing financial security, sustaining a demarcated whole.
MicroSite is a series of online-only projects reflecting on the current compromised and corporatized state of public and private space in both physical and virtual life. For MicroSite, Gh0stSpace has invited artists to make artworks for an architectural model of an unrealised, and never built, public building.
Fellowship of Citizens, Emblem (2019), at Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore
Fellowship of Citizens, Emblem (2019), at Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore
Fellowship of Citizens, Emblem (2019), at Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore
Fellowship of Citizens, Emblem (2019), at Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore
Fellowship of Citizens, Emblem (2019), at Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore
Fellowship of Citizens, Emblem (2019), at Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore
Fellowship of Citizens, Emblem (2019), at Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore
Fellowship of Citizens, Emblem (2019), at Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore
Fellowship of Citizens, Emblem (2019), at Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore
Fellowship of Citizens, Emblem (2019), at Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore
Fellowship of Citizens, Emblem (2019), at Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore
Emblem
Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore
2019
In the past few years my work has developed into an infrastructural artistic practice. I have purposefully embedded my work into existing power structures and legal environments in order to gain political agency.
In 2017 I founded the interest group Félag Borgara (Fellowship of Citizens) with the aim of lobbying for Basic Income in Iceland. The interest group produces projects, in collaboration with agents in the cultural sector, on the basis that they can raise awareness of the financial- and cultural value of marginalized types labour.
Alongside the above mentioned activities, the interest group puts in question who and what is considered a citizen. We have broadened the notion of citizenship to non-human entities, such as spiders, mountains, roads and bots, bringing attention to the varieties of labour currently taking place and the multitude of inhabitants residing in a geographical jurisdiction. By doing so, we advocate for an all encompassing financial security, sustaining a demarcated whole.
Iceland has a small human population with a vast landscape and is therefore a good testing ground for an artwork which aims to enter a collective imagination and influence policy making. Rather than being a symbolic gesture the artwork aims to provide systemic change.
Graphic design: Gabríel Markan
Art direction: Saemundur Thor Helgason
Photo credit: Jing Wei
