A Lot of Sorrow
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«Sorrow found me when I was young / Sorrow waited, sorrow won.» It’s like in the old days: Depending on when you were born, you would either rewind the tape again and again or you would set your CD player so that it repeated one single song over and over again. If you are Ragnar Kjartansson, however, this will not do: the performance artist from Iceland asked his favoured band «The National» if they would play the song «Sorrow» for six hours on end. The band said yes and in May 2015 they played at the MoMa PS1 in front of a live audience. And Kjartansson produced a video from it. It became a video installation, which unfurls a seemingly never ending musical cosmos that puts you into a state of emergency.
With his band «Trabant», Ragnar Kjartansson became a pop star in his home country of Iceland. Meanwhile he has also reached international fame as a visual artist. His work has been shown at venues such as the New York Museum, at MoMa’s PS1, at Performa New York as well as at the Guggenheim in Bilbao. The exhibit «The Visitors» has been shown at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich (2013) and the exhibit «Song» was shown at the Carnegie Museum of Art (2011), at the MOCA North Miami as well as at the ICA Boston (2012).
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