{"id":14553,"date":"2018-04-17T16:32:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T16:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/event\/myndlist-i-anddyrinu-troll\/"},"modified":"2018-04-17T16:46:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T16:46:22","slug":"myndlist-i-anddyrinu-troll","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/myndlist-i-anddyrinu-troll\/","title":{"rendered":"Art in foyer &#8211; TROLL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Welcome to the opening of TROLL by Vala Bj\u00f6rg Hafsteinsd\u00f3ttir and Linn Bj\u00f6rklund, at The Nordic House foyer &#8211; March 26nd 5 PM.\u00a0The Nordic\u00a0House offers light refreshments. Free entrance.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vala Bj\u00f6rg Hafsteinsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong> was born in 1980 in Reykjavik, graduated in art from Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2010, and has since studied Folkloristics at the University of Iceland. She usually works co-text, illustration and collage.<br \/>\n<strong>Linn Bj\u00f6rklund<\/strong>\u00a0was born in Sweden in 1985 and lives in Reykjav\u00edk. She has studied art at Konstfack in Stockholm and graduated from the master&#8217;s degree program at the Iceland Academy of Fine Arts, 2015. She usually works with sculpture, installation and video.<\/p>\n<h3>TROLL<\/h3>\n<p><em>In the olden days, people believed that spices worked as protection against trolls. Bread and salt was a common housewarming gift so new house owner would not starve. One\u2019s grandfather could stop blood by saying a mantra. \u00a0Evil was cast out with evil. But that is in the past. We don\u2019t use magic anymore against what we fear.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But fear is still there, despite social development and technical enhancement\u2019s. \u00a0Maybe it&#8217;s the same fear, in a new disguise. We fear what we do not understand.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There must be a way to protect us from the trolls.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the opening of TROLL by Vala Bj\u00f6rg Hafsteinsd\u00f3ttir and Linn Bj\u00f6rklund, at The Nordic House foyer &#8211; March 26nd 5 PM.\u00a0The Nordic\u00a0House offers light refreshments. Free entrance.\u00a0 Vala Bj\u00f6rg Hafsteinsd\u00f3ttir was born in 1980 in Reykjavik, graduated in art from Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2010, and has since studied Folkloristics at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14551,"template":"","event-categories":[56],"class_list":["post-14553","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-categories-exhibitions","event_tags-kunst-i-foyer-en","event_tags-myndlist-i-anddyrinu-en","no-banner-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/14553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=14553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}