Landscape of Hope (Vivek Venkatesh and Owen Chapman) performed with Bardspec at the Eistnaflug 2019 festival in Neskaupstaður, Iceland in July 2019. The Eistnaflug 2019 performance was the first live collaboration between BardSpec and Landscape of Hope. BardSpec is the ambient project from Enslaved composer/guitarist Ivar Bjørnson. Canadian filmmaker David Hall (Uneasy Sleeper) who runs live visuals for Bardspec and is a visual designer for Landscape of Hope – contributed his unique brand of provocative and thought-provoking films at the event.
Credit: Ásgeir Þrastarson
Also at Eistnaflug, Grimposium, in partnership with Project Someone, and Enslaved auctioned some unique posters – which had been signed by all the members of Enslaved – during the festival. The proceedings were donated to local Icelandic initiatives that promote community resilience to discrimination.
In September 2017, Project Someone, Grimposium and Enslaved teamed up in Québec City, Canada for the one-off NordiQC festival – a celebration of Bergen-based music, culture, tattoo and visual art. As part of the public engagement activities at NordiQC, Vivek Venkatesh and Enslaved founders Ivar Bjørnson and Kjetil Grutle teamed up with Québec-based visual artist Filip Ivanović to create a video reclaiming runic narratives from right-wing extremists. Bjørnson and Grutle drew out 24 Runic symbols on Ivanović’s NordiQC posters, explained the meaning of each of these symbols, and talked about how these symbols were being misappropriated by extremist groups to promote racist ideals.
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