
Rhythm of labor / Taktur í verki
5.990 kr.Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir (b. Reykjavík, Iceland, 1973; lives and works in Berlin) creates work across video, photography, performance, installation art, and others. Central to her practice is a conceptual approach that fluidly transitions between various artistic mediums. Her work is deeply influenced by anthropological research methods as well as her own personal experiences. She employs strategies of dislocation and defamiliarization to interrogate narratives about labor, class, and urban development and their entanglements with art.
Guðnadóttir’s first monograph Rhythm of Labor is dedicated to her artistic research project Keep Frozen. The project, which has been ongoing for over fifteen years, analyzes the operation of the global economy in the specific local example of the dynamics of industrialized fishing in Iceland. An extensive essay section sheds light on Guðnadóttir’s exploratory performances and films. Heiða Björk Árnadóttir charts the historical and social contexts of the Keep Frozen series. Elisabeth Brun shows how the artist challenges clichéd visualizations of the Arctic and Subarctic, while Anamaría Garzón Mantilla underscores the need to integrate the Arctic north into a critique of coloniality. Katla Kjartansdóttir discusses Guðnadóttir’s series of works that focus on the puffin, a seabird native to the North Atlantic, which has been co-opted by the booming tourism industry as an Icelandic symbol. With a foreword by Julia Gwendolyn Schneider.

Són 23 (2025)
5.390 kr.Ársritið SÓN birtir greinar á sviði ljóðlistar og skáldskaparfræða, ný ljóð og ritdóma. Sónarskáldið 2025 er Kristín Ómarsdóttir. Þetta hefti hverfist að miklu leyti um samtímaljóðlist en varpar líka ljósi samtímans á eldri ljóðlist. Þannig sinnir tímaritið hlutverki sínu, hugar að liðnum tímum en líka ólgu dagsins, lesið meira:
Í heftinu er að finna ítarlega grein, SKURÐPUNKTUR SKÖPUNAR, þar sem rýnt er í hlutskipti íslenskra ljóðskálda nú á dögum og hugað að þeim breytingum sem hafa átt sér stað í útgáfu ljóðabóka á Íslandi síðustu áratugina. Fjallað er sérstaklega viðamikla sjálfsútgáfu íslenskra ljóðskálda. Greinin er góður upptaktur að þeim fjölda umsagna um ljóðabækur sem eru í þessu hefti og hafa aldrei verið fleiri. Fjallað er um 44 ljóðabækur, þar af 36 frumsamdar, sex ljóðaþýðingar og tvö ljóðasöfn.
Auk Sónarskáldsins, Kristínar Ómarsdóttur, birta sex önnur íslensk samtímaskáld ljóð í heftinu og einnig birtist íslensk þýðing á mögnuðu ádrepuljóði Emily Gorcensky sem fangar vel þá undarlegu tíma sem við lifum á.
Ein ritrýnd grein er í SÓN að þessu sinni og er hún um margt óvenjuleg því hún er afrakstur samvinnu á milli umhverfistónskálds og bókmenntafræðings og kallast ÞEGAR FYRIRBÆRI FLÆÐA. Greininni mætti lýsa sem fræðilegum hugleiðingum sem sprottnar eru af hendingunni „Í jöklinum hljóða dauðadjúpar sprungur“ í Sofðu, unga ástin mín. Hendingin verður höfundum kveikja hugleiðinga sem tengjast jöklum, ekki síst hopun þeirra og loftslagsbreytingum.
Þá er í heftinu merkilegt fræðslukvæði í rímnabúningi frá nítjándu öld. Kvæðið er eftir Jón Bergsted og kallast FÆÐINGARHJÁLPIN en þar er lýst í 114 erindum getnaði, meðgöngu, fæðingu og fæðingarhjálp.
Ritstjóri tímaritsins er Soffía Auður Birgisdóttir og hægt er að gerast áskrifandi hjá henni á soffiab@hi.is. Áskrift kostar 5000 kr. Að baki útgáfu tímaritsins stendur óðfræðifélagið BOÐN og eru ljóðaunnendur hvattir til að leggja tímaritinu lið með áskrift.

Poor Artists
3.690 kr.Why make art? Faced with a capitalist system that has turned art into artwork and creative expression into cut-throat competition, why do so many artists try anyway?In this eye-opening journey through the bizarre world of contemporary art, criticism duo The White Pube tell the story of art like never before.
Poor Artists follows aspiring artist Quest Talukdar through childhood obsessions, art school lessons and her professional debut. In surreal encounters with other artists, Quest learns profound truths about money and power, and must decide whether she cares more about success or staying true to herself.
Blending imaginative storytelling with dialogue from anonymized interviews with real people in the art world who have all had to wrestle with the same decisions – including a Turner Prize winner or two, a few ghosts, a Venice Biennale fraudster and a communist messiah – Poor Artists is a powerful testimony to the emotional, existential and financial experience of artists today.



Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
8.290 kr.Raised by scientifically minded parents, Atwood spent most of each year in the wild forest of northern Quebec: a vast playground for her entomologist father and independent, resourceful mother. It was an unfettered and nomadic childhood, sometimes isolated but also thrilling and beautiful.
From this unconventional start, Atwood unfolds the story of her life, linking key moments to the books that have shaped our literary landscape, from the cruel school year that would become Cat’s Eye to the unease of 1980s Berlin, where she began The Handmaid’s Tale. In pages alive with the natural world, reading and books, major political turning points and her lifelong love for the charismatic writer Graeme Gibson, we meet poets, bears, Hollywood stars and larger-than-life characters straight from the pages of an Atwood novel.
As she explores her past, Atwood reveals more and more about her writing, the connections between real life and art – and the workings of one of our boldest imaginations.






