NS-12

NS-12 is an audiovisual art work created through the collaboration between filmmaker Kristján Loðmfjörð and the composer Konrad Korabiewski. Alternately presented as a multi-channel audio and visual installation or as a work for 5.1 cinema screening, NS-12 poetically portrays a fishing trawler in East Iceland as a self-contained world; a space which functions both as workplace and as collective living arrangement with its own rhythms, demands, and mythologies. Artistically the ship is perceived as a living organism, as a musical instrument, and as an industrial visual landscape with distinctive textures and colors. The book is a companion to the audiovisual work and includes photographic stills from unused video footage, essays by Daniel Canty and Anna Friz, and an interview by Kristín Ómarsdóttir with former Icelandic president Vigdís Finnbogadóttir. The book will include online access to the audiovisual work which will be released in partnership with ZKM Institute for Music and Acoustics.