Activations
2026
a Snæfellsjökuls X Janosch Bela Kratz
for Listahátíð @ Kling og Bang
We are looking for volunteers to participate in a special performance: the activation of Motion to Chill. Contact us at araw@hi.is if interested.
On Saturday, May 23rd, 2026 from 14:00 to 20:00, angela Snæfellsjökuls rawlings and Janosch Bela Kratz invite you to explore glacial movement with us as we carve through Austurvöllur in front of Alþingi live-streamed by this webcam. This is artistic intervention as ecosocial sculpture. It's commutiny. The live stream will be recorded and then shown at a Listahátíð exhibition in Kling og Bang from the 5th of June until the 19th of July. Motion to Chill will be a long-duration performance of 6 hours where you are invited to choose your length and moment of engagement. Drop by for half an hour... Commit for an hour or two... Or join us for the full experience. Choose your own adventure!
Attuning to 150 years of glacial movement
Icelandic glaciers reached their recent maximum from 1870-1890, during which time humans began to leave paths on glaciers. For our performance, we will attune to glacial retreat from 1900 to 2050. Our movement is based on Jökloreography—a glacial choreography. angela gathered 50 verbs used to describe glacial movement in scientific reports. All participants will be invited to explore how these verbs feel in their own bodies—thereby forming a relationship with glaciers.
Did you know that human beings have only ever existed within an Ice Age? We are currently in an interglacial period of the Quaternary Ice Age, which began 2.58 million years ago. Homo sapiens originated a mere 300,000 years ago. Iceland gained human settlement just over 1,000 years ago. The nation's independence was inked 80 years ago. As of today, 70 of 269 named glaciers have disappeared in Iceland. And glaciologists now predict that all glaciers in Iceland will be significantly disappeared or entirely melted by 2225. Please join us to tune into our own lived realities as glacial beings.
14:00-15:00 FORM (1900-1925)
15:00-16:00 DEFORM (1925-1950)
16:00-17:00 FLUCTUATE (1950-1975)
17:00-18:00 ACCUMULATE (1975-2000)
18:00-19:00 SURGE (2000-2025)
19:00-20:00 JÖKULHLAUP / RUN (2025-2050)
2025
a Snæfellsjökuls @ Centre for Applied Ecological Thinking, U Copenhagen
A lecture on "Glacial Relations" as part of a symposium "Rethinking Human Relationships with the More-than-human"
Modern-day humans and their ancestors have only ever lived within icehouse Earth environs. As inhabitants who evolved within the Quaternary ice age with its alternations of glacial and interglacial periods, human habitability and survivorship on the planet has been intrinsically linked with the presence of ice sheets, ice caps, glaciers, and permafrost. With the tipping of seven of nine planetary boundaries, Earth’s icehouse veers towards a premature entry into a greenhouse period—untested for human species as a climate much hotter than any human has ever lived within. Glacial Relations invites a consideration of humans as entwined with the cryosphere. From exploring a glacial vocabulary to nominating the glacier Snæfellsjökull for the Icelandic presidency, artistic interventions provoke a shift in the ways humans relate to icehouse Earth. Utilising artistic practice-as-research, Dr. angela Snæfellsjökuls rawlings will share a selection of their creative processes and outputs which explores how to að jökla (become-with glacier). Photo credit: RoJo
2025
a Snæfellsjökuls receives a Visiting Scholar Fellowship at Panel on Planetary Thinking, Justus-Liebig Universitat in Giessen, Germany
During the residency, Motion to Chill was created. At a final symposium in November 2025, rawlings was joined by Dr. Patrick Flamm, Dr. Ólafur Páll Jónsson, and Ole Martin Sandberg to stage a Jöklaþing—a glacial deliberative assembly—where the Motion to Chill was presented to attendees.
2025
a Snæfellsjökuls, Matthias Mainz, and Joe Sorbara @ Kulturwerkstatt (Nuremburg) and exploratorium (Berlin)
Carry On is a multi-year improvisatory collaboration between percussionist Joe Sorbara (Canada), pianist Matthias Mainz (Germany), and interdisciplinarist angela Snæfellsjökuls rawlings (Iceland). Working through sound, poetics, and ecosystems, their collaboration is contingent on attunement with planetary boundary tipping points, which govern their wellnesses, locations, travel potential, sociolegal realities, and politicised bodies. The trio explores the meeting-space between human and non-human time-conceptions which may activate a tempoception sense-ability within musicmaking-as-relations-as-communication.
In November 2025, the trio continued their collaboratory through a series of public events in Germany—including a workshop with UNESCO Chair in Digital Culture and Arts in Education at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, a performance at Kulturwerkstadt in Nürnberg, and a performance at exploratorium in Berlin. Through the collaboration, the trio activated rawlings’ newly produced Motion to Chill.