Cycles and Stillness with sculptors Eva Ísleifsdóttir and Sindri Leifsson
Cycles and Stillness with sculptors Eva Ísleifsdóttir and Sindri Leifsson
The sky is overcast, there is a couple smoking cigarettes on the front step that I squeeze by, a cat crosses the road. There’s nothing to pull me out of my workday daze. That is, until I round the corner to Pósthússtræti
In 2013, the Greek government dismantled its national news network — the equivalent of Britain shuttering the BBC. But even now, more than a year later, the journalists refuse to quit.
Read about what you read about. As soon as “cukoo’s nest reykjavík grapewine” shows up on the list (with 64 searches, note: that is 64 separate times that those exact words were typed into Google and led one to grapevine.is.) the screws begin to loosen.
When ‘all the lights have gone out’ we will be left with our stories. At least we can keep doing that when we make our way to the end,” Sjón says near the edge of our conversation.
Maria Tomara had been a radio journalist for twenty years when the station was shut down. For over a year she and other former workers of ERT have hijacked the airwaves and continued the broadcast, relying entirely on volunteered hours and donated equipment.
Axel Björnsson pushes into the Grapevine office at 2:00am and chomps the triangle tip off of a slice of pizza out of our editor’s palm. His body swirls as he tries to stand still.