Bergur Anderson

Sound publication, vinyl record published with Futura Resistenza, edition of 200

Sound publication, sonic research document of Katrina Niebergal's research/exhibition project "come, Memory". Limited edition cassette with poster insert, published with Futura Resistenza, edition of 50.

Group exhibition called Dreams, presented the sound-and-sculpture installation Duets.

Residency in WORM's sound recording studio. Compositions, sound-design and soundtracking with and for Katrina Niebergal's film / installation project. Photo: Still from Katrina Niebergal's work-in-progress film.

Sound publication released on cassette with Rotterdam-Brussels based label Futura Resistenza. Around the Songster's Commune is a sonic drift into troubadour poetry and song. It is collected meditations: compositional fragments, whimsy ditties, field recordings and experiments with troubadour song-making methodologies. Recorded during a residency at Jambes, Brussels, in May 2022. Also released online via their website.

Solo exhibition at Kling & Bang, Reykjavík. For this project, I worked with the phenomenon of earworms: songs and fragments of sound that get stuck in your head. I collected recordings of my voice singing earworms as they emerged in my mind — later using them as raw materials for a sound composition for this space. For me, it was a way to materialize ideas about personal and collective (sonic) memory; residual noise; and my own melodic and poetic capacities.

Self-published artist book. Edition of 30, 110 pages. Between September 2020 and April 2021, Katrina and I collected the accidental/incidental rhymes made when speaking — we each acted as the collector and editor of the other's poems and compiled these into this first double volume, collectively titled Poems.

Residency at Jambes — a sound recording studio in Brussels commissioning new works by artists experimenting with sound and voice. While there, I recorded and composed for a release titled "Around the Songster's Commune".

Sound publication released on vinyl with Rotterdam-Brussels label Futura Resistenza. It is the result of research into polyphonic storytelling and explores how contemporary stories can be told musically. Through sound, collaboration, character and world-making, it meditates on gentrification; anxiety; healing aspects of sound; and songs as harbingers for social change.

Duo exhibition with Á. Birna Björnsdottir. 10 glazed ceramic candleholders, candles, flag piece. Ten of Moods marks the completion of a cycle, taking one hard look at the past in order to emancipate possible futures. It appears at dusk, when the day's work is over and shadow-seeking worlds begin to unfold; when light captures and holds our deepest thoughts and desires. Through systems of representation and numerology we can investigate what the future holds.

10 Research Mixtapes. From December 2019 to October 2020 I embarked on a research trajectory into the realms of musical storytelling, publishing a monthly research mixtape on Lithuanian community radio platform Palanga Street Radio. A visual language, inspired by classic interpretations of the numerical processions found in the Tarot, was developed in drawings I made to accompany each episode. These depicted hybrid figures made of stars, people and plants.

Artist-in-residence at Nida Art Colony, in Lithuania. Researching and developing work for project "Mottos Journey: Discovering storytelling agency in polyphonic practices".

Solo exhibition at Harbinger, Reykjavík. Bushes are shaking. A hum is heard from a distance. A foot taps a gentle beat. A voice enters and sings a familiar melody. “The one and only body of The Hum & Lego Flamb” is an exhibition that brings two characters who live in Bergur's practice to Harbinger project space. Featuring guests Karen Huang, Rúnar Örn Marinósson, Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir, Albert Finnbogason and Pétur Eggertsson.

Co-founding member, organizer and facilitator of artist run anti-choir. Singing Club of Rotterdam is an experimental anti-choir initiated in early 2019. Clubbers meet every other week to explore what can be done with the voice. For every semester the club chooses a theme to focus on from an ever growing manifesto; previously the club has explored "how not to give a fuck" and "listening to all our voices."

Co-founder and organizer of artist initiative project space at7.