Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors, 2012; jointly owned past the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Museum of Mod Art, New York, acquired through the generosity of Mimi Haas and Helen and Charles Schwab; © Ragnar Kjartansson; photograph: Elísabet Davids, courtesy of the creative person, Luhring Augustine, New York, and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik
Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors (notwithstanding), 2012; nine-channel HD video project with audio, 64 min., dimensions variable; jointly owned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Museum of Modernistic Art, New York, acquired through the generosity of Mimi Haas and Helen and Charles Schwab; © Ragnar Kjartansson
Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors (still), 2012; nine-channel HD video project with sound, 64 min., dimensions variable; jointly owned by the San Francisco Museum of Modernistic Art and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired through the generosity of Mimi Haas and Helen and Charles Schwab; © Ragnar Kjartansson
Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors, 2012 (detail); nine-aqueduct HD video projection with sound, 64 min., dimensions variable; jointly owned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Museum of Modern Fine art, New York, acquired through the generosity of Mimi Haas and Helen and Charles Schwab; installation view, SFMOMA, 2017; © Ragnar Kjartansson; photograph: Katherine Du Tiel
Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors, 2012 (detail); nine-channel HD video projection with audio, 64 min., dimensions variable; jointly owned by the San Francisco Museum of Modernistic Art and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired through the generosity of Mimi Haas and Helen and Charles Schwab; installation view, SFMOMA, 2017; © Ragnar Kjartansson; photograph: Katherine Du Tiel
Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors, score, 2012; pencil, pen, and watercolor on paper, sixteen 5/sixteen ten 22 13/16 in. (41.v x 58 cm); individual collection, courtesy Luhring Augustine, New York, and i8 Gallery, Reykjavík; © Ragnar Kjartansson; photograph: courtesy the creative person, Luhring Augustine, New York, and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik
What a beautiful identify to seek shelter, gather strength, and relish the visitor of friends.
A two-hundred-year-old landmark in upstate New York—a romantic setting of bohemian décor and seductive atmospheres—plays host to The Visitors, a championship inspired by ABBA's terminal album before their breakup. Ragnar Kjartansson's ring is an eclectic grouping. Eight musicians begin to play, each in a separate room (with the creative person himself naked in the bathtub), recording their separate tracks in sync in a unmarried continuous session every bit others play and sing on the porch. Mansion turns living museum; film gear up becomes multitrack recording studio.
Music can arouse desires and emotions but it can also offer a retreat and safe haven in moments of despair. Once again I autumn into / My feminine means—the vocal's lyrics, from a poem past Kjartansson'south ex-wife, Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir, revel in melancholy. With each refrain, emotions go deeper, building dense layers of past feeling, and a collective lament. On the nine projection screens in this immersive video installation, threads of intimate views are woven into the lingering melody.
Endlessly repeating the same song signals a moment of emotional catharsis. The hour-long psychedelic loop slowly drifts toward a last movement, a gathering of friends and a communal walk out into the mansion'south open pastures, leaving this viewer with a sense of longing unfulfilled.
— Rudolf Frieling
Originally published in San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360⁰: Views on the Drove, edited by Judy Bloch and Suzanne Stein (San Francisco: SFMOMA, 2016).
Ragnar Kjartansson, The Visitors, 2012; installed at SFMOMA as office of Soundtracks, 2017; © Ragnar Kjartansson; video: courtesy Adobe.
This 360⁰ sound/video presentation is best experienced using a mobile device and headphones.
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Scenes From the Production of Ragnar Kjartansson'due south The Visitors
Scene from the production of The Visitors, 2012; photo: Elísabet Davids
Scene from the production of The Visitors, 2012; photograph: Elísabet Davids
Scene from the production of The Visitors, 2012; photo: Elísabet Davids
Scene from the production of The Visitors, 2012; photograph: Elísabet Davids
Scene from the production of The Visitors, 2012; photo: Elísabet Davids
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