LungA School LungA Skólinn | |
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![]() The 'Netty' workshop and studio-spaces at LungA School in 2024 | |
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Type | Art school and folk high school |
Established | 2013 |
Director | Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson |
Website |
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LungA School is an artist-run residential art school based in Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland [1] that offers programs in Art and Land. [2]
Inspired by anarchist pedagogies, [3] the school grew out of the LungA Art Festival, and was founded by Danish artist Jonatan Spejlborg Juelsbo and Icelandic artist and musician Björt Sigfinnsdóttir, the festival's co-founder and director. [4] [5] Like the festival before it, the school's name is a portmanteau of the Icelandic words 'lista' (art), 'ungur' (young) and 'Austurlandi' (East). [6] [7]
The school was formalized in 2013 with the first program launching in 2014, and is one of only two folk high schools in Iceland, [8] joined by Lýðháskólinn á Flateyri in 2017. [9] [10] [11] It takes applicants aged 18 years and over from around the world. [12]
Many of LungA School's buildings and facilities are co-opted from local industry, either occupying spaces underused outside of Seyðisfjörður's busy tourist season or redeveloping spaces vacated by changes to the local fishing industry. [13] Since 2016 the school has been the host to an experimental community radio station, Seyðisfjörður Community Radio, part of the Lithuania-based Independent Community Radio Network. [14]
American British artist and curator Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson was hired as the new director of the school in October 2023. [15]
LungA stands for Listahátíð UNGs fólks á Austurlandi
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LungA School LungA Skólinn | |
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![]() The 'Netty' workshop and studio-spaces at LungA School in 2024 | |
Location | |
| |
Information | |
Type | Art school and folk high school |
Established | 2013 |
Director | Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson |
Website |
www |
LungA School is an artist-run residential art school based in Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland [1] that offers programs in Art and Land. [2]
Inspired by anarchist pedagogies, [3] the school grew out of the LungA Art Festival, and was founded by Danish artist Jonatan Spejlborg Juelsbo and Icelandic artist and musician Björt Sigfinnsdóttir, the festival's co-founder and director. [4] [5] Like the festival before it, the school's name is a portmanteau of the Icelandic words 'lista' (art), 'ungur' (young) and 'Austurlandi' (East). [6] [7]
The school was formalized in 2013 with the first program launching in 2014, and is one of only two folk high schools in Iceland, [8] joined by Lýðháskólinn á Flateyri in 2017. [9] [10] [11] It takes applicants aged 18 years and over from around the world. [12]
Many of LungA School's buildings and facilities are co-opted from local industry, either occupying spaces underused outside of Seyðisfjörður's busy tourist season or redeveloping spaces vacated by changes to the local fishing industry. [13] Since 2016 the school has been the host to an experimental community radio station, Seyðisfjörður Community Radio, part of the Lithuania-based Independent Community Radio Network. [14]
American British artist and curator Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson was hired as the new director of the school in October 2023. [15]
LungA stands for Listahátíð UNGs fólks á Austurlandi
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cite report}}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link)