Event info

The Plant Becoming Project offers a bus trip around Kleifarvatn in Reykjanes. The trip will offer exercises that help people to connect with their inner plant and re-discover and develop their worldview. A journey through inner and outer landscapes and a holiday away from the everyday human condition that often causes stressful emotions and other problems.

During the journey we will focus on visuals, voice, movement and nurture.We will be exploring each topic through stops on the trip. Including activities such as singing, plant analyses, scale reflections and walking.

A plant becoming journey is both informative and experiential, where participants get the opportunity to connect to their environment in a new way. Our goal is to create influential memories that generate new ways of caring for each other and our environment.

The pickup location for the Plant Becoming Project is in Hellisgerði, Hafnarfjörður. 

The trip will be approximately 2,5 hours

You will get: water, lunch and coffee.

About the artists.

Búi Bjarmar Aðalsteinsson is a designer who has been researching the connection of design with other forms of art and examined how ideas about design can be used in a new context. Recently, he has been exploring the boundaries of performance and design, where the qualities of the magnificent moment are brought into everyday life. As the scenery, props, costumes and progressions are woven into the urban landscape and participants get to explore the adventures that are all around us.

Búi graduated from psychology at the University of Iceland, product design from the Iceland Academy of the Arts and social design and art from the Design Academy in Eindhoven. Búi is also a co-founder and service representative of Plant Becoming Project.

Hrefna Lind Lárusdóttir is a performance artists that works across discipline, performance, visual art, music and design. Hrefna´s work is about creating a space where the surreal meets the mundane, where she feels like there is a potential for a juxtaposition and a gap for further conversation about how the ordinary things in life are perceived. Hrefna is one of co-founder of the Post Performance Blues Band, The Plant becoming project, where people can grow their inner plant and curates and teaches artwork in prisons within the project Breaking barriers. Hrefna studied contemporary performance at Naropa University and Art Academy of Iceland. 

Stage artist Ragnar Ísleifur Bragason was born in Reykjavik in 1977. For the past years he has been involved in dance- and theater performances with 16lovers and Kriðpleir and also other groups. He has written plays and been teaching at the Iceland Academy of the Arts, and the LungA school in Seyðisfjörður. He graduated from the Theory and Practice department at The Iceland Academy of the Arts.

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Plöntutíð is a new theater- and performance arts festival that will be held for the second time during the 3rd - 5th September. The festival is a platform for artists who work with nature and strive to move beyond anthropocentric performing arts. The performance pieces on the festival are made for plants, in collaboration with plants and even performed by plants.

During Plöntutíð, workshops and a number of stage works will be shown in unconventional spaces around Reykjavík and Kópavogur. The program will be formally launched with a streamed performance called "Thank You for Keeping Me Alive" by Wiola Ujazdowska. The second day, Saturday, is dedicated to the youngsters and family time. The BRUM soundwalk by the performing arts group Trigger Warning takes off in Heiðmörk, then a Plant Theater workshop in Gerðarsafn with Lóa Björk Björnsdóttir is from one to three and the happening The Youth in the Woods will be performed by teenagers led by Ásrún Magnúsdóttir in Öskjuhlíð at four o'clock. In the evening, Jakub Ziemann and Yelena Arakelow receive people in a food experience called Dear Carrot, sorry I forgot you out in the cold. Eva Halldóra Guðmundsdóttir and Vigfús Karl Sigfússon will premiere the soundscape Plöntusnúður for party-thirsty plants in the empty space in Skeljanes. On the last day of the festival, The Plant Becoming Project offers a bus trip around Kleifarvatn in Reykjanes and there will be a Plant Theater in The Botanical Garden in Reykjavík. Finally, there will be an opportunity for the curious to go on a sensational journey in Ecosexuality with Íris Stefanía Skúladóttir and experience the earth as a lover.

Plöntutíð is funded by the Bank of Iceland Entrepreneurship Fund, the Reykjavík Arts and Culture Council, the Kópavogur Arts and Culture Council and the Children's Culture Fund of Iceland. Thank you!!!

You can read more about Plöntutíð at plontutid.com.

COVID-19 information

The festival will be held in one way or another and follows all the regulations on restrictions on gatherings due to the pandemic. Most events take place outdoors and in small groups of people that are closely linked. At the few indoor events and where it is more difficult to maintain the one-metre proximity limit, masks will be required. For more information, contact plontutid@gmail.com.