events

༄ PERFORMANCE 19 April 2023 | Reykjavík, Iceland | Launch of Skáldreki, Bókmenntahátíð

༄ LECTURE 29 March 2023 | Online | ROCS Lecture Series

༄ LECTURE 16 September 2020 | St. Catharine's, Canada | Guest lecturer for Natalee Caple's Writing in the Community course at Brock University

༄ PERFORMANCE 27 August 2020 | Reykjavík, Iceland | MarQueens of the Red Light District, a performance in collaboration with and curated by Michael Richardt

༄ LECTURE 6 May 2020 | Online | Guest lecturer for kim simonsen's poetics course at University of the Faroe Islands

༄ LECTURE 21 April 2020 | Online | Guest lecturer for Randi Stebbins' course at University of Iceland

༄ LECTURE 3 April 2020 | Online | Guest artist for Danielle Vogel's poetry course at Wesleyan University

༄ PERFORMANCE 1 January 2020 | Reykjavík, Iceland | New Year's Day poetry reading at Gröndalshús

༄ PERFORMANCE 2 July 2017 | Copenhagen, Denmark | Copenhagen Literaturhuset, curated by Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology

༄ PERFORMANCE 1 July 2017 | Roskilde, Denmark | Roskilde Festival, Art Zone co-curated by Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology

༄ PERFORMANCE 1 June 2017 | Reykjavík, Iceland | Nordic House, Eyes as Big as Plates Opening

༄ EXHIBITION 25-28 May 2017 | Kragerø, Norway | På Kanten, Den Norske Filosofifestivalen, exhibition curated by Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology

༄ PERFORMANCE 11-14 May 2017 | Skien, Norway | Greenlight District Festival

༄ PERFORMANCE & EXHIBITION 27 February 2017 | Malmø, Sweden | Inter Arts Centre

༄ 1-15 September 2016 | Baia Mare, Romania | Inter-Arts Residency

༄ PERFORMANCE 5-7 August 2016 | Braziers Park, UK | Supernormal Festival

༄ PERFORMANCE 14 May 2016 | Surrey, UK | New Writers’ Festival

༄ PERFORMANCE 7 May 2016 | Glasgow, Scotland | Tectonics Music Festival, as Moss Moss Not Moss with Rebecca Bruton

༄ PERFORMANCE 22 April 2016 | Berlin, Germany | Broken Dimanche Press

༄ LECTURE 16 March 2016 | London, UK | Roehampton University lecture

༄ PERFORMANCE 5-7 February 2016 | Oslo, Norway | Visual and Digital Poetry Festival

༄ PERFORMANCE 22 January 2016 | Reykjavík, Iceland | Óvinir, a collaboration with Arngunnur Árnadóttir

༄ LECTURE 24 November 2015 | Mississauga, Canada | Running with Concepts: The Geologic Edition

༄ 6-8 November 2015 | Copenhagen, Denmark | Transart Transspecies Festival

༄ EXHIBITION 7 October – 5 December 2015 | Oslo, Norway | The Word’s Head Exhibition

༄ 2 October 2015 | Reykjavík, Iceland | Ós Pressan Exhibition and Reading

༄ PERFORMANCE 9-14 September 2015 | Brussels, Belgium | The Underground Spoken Word Festival

༄ PERFORMANCE 22 August 2015 | Reykjavík, Iceland | Menningarnótt | Áfall / Trauma performance with Rebecca Bruton, with members of the Reykjavík Writing Laboratory

༄ LECTURE 25 June 2015 | Berlin, Germany | Ausland | Lecture on Gibber

༄ LECTURE 21 June 2015 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Stichting Perdu | Lecture on Gibber

༄ LECTURE & PERFORMANCE 12 June 2015 | Zagreb, Croatia | Poeisis Conference | Lecture on Gibber + echolology performance

༄ PERFORMANCE 6 June 2015 | Paris, France | Street Festival | Rule of Three performance with Maja Jantar

༄ LECTURE & PERFORMANCE 4 June 2015 | Brussels, Belgium |Pianofabriek | Lecture on Gibber and performance with Maja Jantar

༄ PERFORMANCE 10 March 2015 | Toronto, Canada | Art Bar Poetry Series

༄ PERFORMANCE 12 December 2014 | Ghent, Belgium | Longitude opera premiere

༄ LECTURE 4-5 December 2014 | Brussels, Belgium | Ecopoetics Conference

༄ PERFORMANCE 19 November 2014 | Iowa City, Iowa, USA | Prairie Lights Bookstore

༄ LECTURE 5-7 November 2014 | St. Catharines, Canada | Brock University | Avant Canada and bpNichol Symposium

༄ PERFORMANCE 3 November 2014 | Toronto, Canada | Rowers Pub Reading Series

༄ PERFORMANCE 2 November 2014 | Hamilton, Canada | litlive reading series

༄ PERFORMANCE 22-25 October 2014 | Reykjavík, Iceland | Women of North Literary Festival

༄ 4-5 October 2014 | Reykjavík, Iceland | Húmor og amór: Multilingual creative writing workshop for women

༄ 30 September 2014 | Akureyri, Iceland | Artist talk

༄ 12-30 September 2014 | Hjalteyri, Iceland | Verksmiðjan | Artist residency with Maja Jantar, Elsa Lefebvre, and Philip Vormwald

༄ PERFORMANCE 17 September 2014 | Oslo, Norway | Ultima Festival | Premiere of chamber opera Longitude

༄ PERFORMANCE 4-7 September 2014 | Oslo, Norway | Oslo International Poetry Festival | Performances and panel discussion

༄ PERFORMANCE 16 August 2014 | Hjalteyri, Iceland | Verksmiðjan | Performance with Kristín Eiríksdóttir, Kari Ósk Grettudóttir, and Gestur Guðnason

༄ PERFORMANCE 24-26 May 2014 | Reykjavík, Iceland | Tjarnarbíó | Reykjavík Arts Festival | VavaVoom Theatre and Bedroom Community present Wide slumber, a performance actualization of a rawlings’ 2006 book Wide slumber for lepidopterists

༄ PERFORMANCE 10 April 2014 | Reykjavík, Iceland | Harpa | Tectonics Music Festival | with Maja Jantar

༄ PERFORMANCE 8 April 2014 | Brooklyn, NY, USA | Roulette | Composer and singer Gabrielle Herbst presents new opera Bodiless(libretto by a rawlings)

༄ PERFORMANCE 29 March 2014 | Reykjavík, Iceland | Vinnslan @ Tjarnarbíó | VaVaVoom Theatre and Bedroom Community present 10 minutes from Wide slumber (based on the book by a rawlings)

༄ 8 March 2014 | Reykjavík, Iceland | National Library | Talk on being a foreign artist in Iceland | on the occasion of Melitta Urbancic’s book launch and cultural contributions

༄ PERFORMANCE 22 February 2014 | Reykjavík, Iceland | Stofan | echolology performance, An Echo An performance with Sachiko Murakami | with Mazen Maarouf and Sachiko Murakami

༄ PERFORMANCE 15 February 2014 | Hólmavík, Iceland | Hormungardagar @ Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft | Figuredebut, echolology performance | with Sachiko Murakami, Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl, Marko Niemi, and Katariina Vuorinen

༄ 19 January 2014 | Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY, USA | dekonstruct project space | Artist talk on glaciers and trauma

༄ PERFORMANCE 17 January 2014 | Manhattan, NY, USA | Poets House | echolology reading | with Eleanor Jackson and Betsy Turcot

༄ PERFORMANCE 23-24 November 2013 | Henningsvær, Nordland, Norway | Kaviarfabrikken | Women of North Tour | echolology performance and a sound walk | with Mette Karlsvik, Jessie Kleemann, Gerður Kristný, Mette Moestrup, Arnajaraq Støvlbæk, and Elfi Sverdrup

༄ PERFORMANCE 1 November 2013 | Reykjavík, Iceland | Kaffibarinn| Iceland Airwaves Music Festival | Wide slumber for lepidopterists performance for Bedroom Community

༄ PERFORMANCE & EXHIBITION 24 August 2013 | Hjalteyri, Iceland | Menningarnótt | RUSL exhibition and echolology performance with Auður Jónsdóttir, Kristín Eiríksdóttir, and Þórarinn Leifsson

༄ LECTURE 21-24 February 2013 | Berkeley, USA | Conference on Ecopoetics | Panel presentation (via Skype) of Gibber, with Kathleen Brown, Adam Dickinson, Erin Robinsong, and Jonathan Skinner

Nýlókórinn @ Nýlistasafn (Reykjavík).
Mix’Art Myrys (Toulouse).
Norðurpollinn (Seltjarnarnes).
Endemi #3 launch (Reykjavík).
SpeedPoets (Brisbane).
Page vs. Stage (Brisbane).
Three readings for Queensland Poetry Festival (Brisbane).
Three readings for Brisbane Writers Festival (Brisbane).
Vatnasafn (Stykkishólmur).
Nýlistasafn (Reykjavík).

North of Invention (Philadelphia and New York City).
drift (Calgary).
Two performances for Edmonton Poetry Festival (Edmonton).
Grey Borders Reading Series (St. Catharines).
Niagara Arts Centre* (St. Catharines).
Krikri Polypoetry Festival, via Skype (Ghent).
The Scream Literary Festival* (Toronto).
Menningarnótt @ Nýlistasafn (Reykjavík).
100,000 Poets for Change (Reykjavík).

Pivot Reading Series (Toronto).
Linh Dinh @ This Ain’t the Rosedale Library Reading (Toronto).
10 Years of Vooruit Literary Programming (Ghent).
livewords Reading with Joe Sorbara (Toronto).
Stichting Perdu Reading with Maja Jantar* (Amsterdam).
BruSlam with Maja Jantar (Brussels).
Logos Hyperpolyphony concert* (Ghent).
PoetryTV with Maja Jantar (New York City).
Maelstrom Fiestival (Brussels).
draft reading series* (Toronto).
The Scream Literary Festival* (Toronto).
Art Bar Reading Series (Toronto).
Queensland Poetry Festival* (Brisbane, Australia).
Nýhil International Poetry Festival (Reykjavík).
AvantGarden Reading Series (Toronto).

Laurentian University Reading* (Sudbury).
Ice Scream Social (Toronto).
Wilson on Colbert Reading (Toronto).
Vagabond Trust Reading Series (Toronto).
Krikri Poetry Festival* with Maja Jantar (Ghent).
Improvisation with Jaap Blonk (Eindhoven).
Impromptu Reading Series (Ghent).
Logos Tetratheader Concert* (Ghent).
Scream Literary Festival’s Open Letter launch* (Toronto).
Figure of Speech Performance Series* (Toronto).
Nýhil International Poetry Festival (Reykjavík).
Nýhil Open Mic @ Bakkus (Reykjavík).
Nýhil “Blame Canada” Reading (Reykjavík).
Play Chthonics Reading Series* (Vancouver).
Wired Writers’ Podcast* (Toronto).

York University HUMA 2900* (Toronto).
Zaoem Polypoetry Festival* (Ghent).
Plasticine Poetry Series* (Toronto).
Tertulia Poetry Series* (Toronto).
Nuit Blanche Fantasia Salon (Toronto).
Erotic Fantastic exhibit (Toronto).
Olive Reading Series* (Edmonton).
KSW Reading* (Vancouver).

Prism launch* (Vancouver).
Strong Words Series (Toronto).
Draft Series* (Toronto).
Live Poets Society Series (Toronto).
Onward Ho Buddies in Bad Times (Toronto).
Pilot Series* (Montreal).
Riff/Raft* (Toronto).
Toronto WordStage* (Toronto).
Scream Literary Festival’s Science Poetry Panel* (Toronto).
Nuit Blanche* (Toronto).
Nýhil International Poetry Festival* (Reykjavík).
Mál og mennig (Reykjavík).
Grey Borders Series* (St. Catharines).
UNBC Reading Series* (Prince George).
New College of Caledonia Reading Series (Prince George).
Queen’s University* (Kingston).

Nuit Blanche* (Toronto).
The Scream Literary Festival* (Toronto).
Scream in the Square* (Toronto).
Ecopoetics Symposium (Brandon).
Just Buffalo Reading Series* (Buffalo).
Calgary International Spoken Word Festival* (Calgary).
dANDelion launch* (Calgary).
Shift & Switch launches (Buffalo, Fredericton, Halifax, Mahone Bay, Montreal, Ottawa, Philadelphia, Windsor).
Coach House launches (Hamilton, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg).
Red School House Poetry Primer* (Kingston).
Wolfe Island Literary Festival (Kingston).
belladonna* Reading Series (New York).
Poets House* (New York).
Ottawa International Writers Festival* (Ottawa).
Moles Not Molar Series (Philadelphia).
Hot-Sauced Words Series (Toronto).
Word on the Street* (Toronto).
Live Poets Society Series* (Toronto).
Box Series* (Toronto).
GritLit Festival* (Hamilton).

Shift & Switch launches (Toronto, Vancouver).
Doom, Desire, and Vice launch (Toronto).
Scream on a High Note* (Toronto).
Art Starts Youth Open Mic* (Toronto).
Art Bar Poetry Series* (Toronto).
IV Lounge Series* (Toronto).

Come As You Are (Toronto).
3 Blind Mice (Calgary).
Scream on a High Note (Toronto).
Steamwhistle Roundhouse (Toronto).
New Work Gallery (Toronto).

dANDelion launch* (Calgary).
Memorial University (Corner Brook).

Lexiconjury Reading Series (Toronto).
read4ever (Toronto).
Mini Digital Poetry Festival* (New York).

existere launch (Toronto).
Idler Pub Series (Toronto).