

Direction / Concept / Poems / Set / Graphics Julian Harold
Production Skaftfell — Center for Visual Arts
Co-Production Herðubreið Community & Culture House
Performer Nanna Vibe Spejlborg Juelsbo
Score Design Default
Soloist Rusa Giorgi
Translation Hanna Christel Sigurkarlsdóttir
Stage Assistant Hyunah Kwown Studio
Photography Kristen Mallia
Recording Kirsty Palmer
28.03.2020
Herðubreið Community & Culture House
Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
The performance was cancelled due to the measures taken by the local governement in response to the Covid-19 epidemic.
Production Skaftfell — Center for Visual Arts
Co-Production Herðubreið Community & Culture House
Performer Nanna Vibe Spejlborg Juelsbo
Score Design Default
Soloist Rusa Giorgi
Translation Hanna Christel Sigurkarlsdóttir
Stage Assistant Hyunah Kwown Studio
Photography Kristen Mallia
Recording Kirsty Palmer
28.03.2020
Herðubreið Community & Culture House
Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
The performance was cancelled due to the measures taken by the local governement in response to the Covid-19 epidemic.
For one night only, transdisciplinary artist Julian Harold will take over Herðubreið's theatre for an exclusive, site-specific and experimental performance titled Auðumbla. An array of flower arrangements, video projections, live poetry and music connecting local and international artists, Auðumbla immerses the audience in an idiosyncratic and self-enclosed world. Auðumbla refers to the eponymous cow from Norse myth from whom we are the descendants. The action occurs under a suspended time frame, parallel to the one in which we live and where nature is held hostage. On the eve of savage green terrorism, original cow Auðumbla floods the rivers with her milk, nourishing the biosphere from her udders. Drawing a line between past and present, the performance investigates our rampant race toward modernity. The show presents a time when the human footprint on this planet will have been so disastrous that the biosphere now solely exists digitally. The digital era accelerated a relentless onslaught of graphic images through various medias. As a consequence, fiction and reality became one, dramatically blurring our capacity to discern truth from falsehood. With Auðumbla comes a reunion with the most visible features of nature.
Einn
Hringsnúandi jarðarhvel
Forboðið að sameinast
Ekkert ginnungagap
Engir himnar
Engin sólhvörf
Ekkert jafndægur
Eingöngu svelt jörð
Sem þráir kraftaverk
Að binda enda á tvískiptinguna
Hringsnúandi jarðarhvel
Forboðið að sameinast
Ekkert ginnungagap
Engir himnar
Engin sólhvörf
Ekkert jafndægur
Eingöngu svelt jörð
Sem þráir kraftaverk
Að binda enda á tvískiptinguna
One
Rotating hemispheres
Banned from merging
No abysses
No heavens
No solstice
No equinox
But a famished earth
Craving miracles
A duality to implode
Rotating hemispheres
Banned from merging
No abysses
No heavens
No solstice
No equinox
But a famished earth
Craving miracles
A duality to implode
Tveir
Hrjóstrug jörð
Eldpípur
Veita véfréttinni heilræði
Múspellsheimur ristir klakann
Tár Niflheims
Bráðna undir rauðum himni
Falla meðfram brúnum munnans
Við síðustu áeggjan
Hin endandlega fórn
Munúðarfull útungun
Helgur núningur
Skaut alheimsins
Kynlaus gjörningur
Elur af sér margar kynslóðir
Hrjóstrug jörð
Eldpípur
Veita véfréttinni heilræði
Múspellsheimur ristir klakann
Tár Niflheims
Bráðna undir rauðum himni
Falla meðfram brúnum munnans
Við síðustu áeggjan
Hin endandlega fórn
Munúðarfull útungun
Helgur núningur
Skaut alheimsins
Kynlaus gjörningur
Elur af sér margar kynslóðir
Two
Barren lands
Inflamed pipes
Consulting the oracle
Muspelheim scarring the ice
The tears of the Niflheim
Melting under a red sky
Dropping along the lines of its orifice
In a last impulsion
Ultimate offering
Sensual hatching
Sanctified rubbing
Womb of the universe
Asexual performance
Bearing countless generations
Barren lands
Inflamed pipes
Consulting the oracle
Muspelheim scarring the ice
The tears of the Niflheim
Melting under a red sky
Dropping along the lines of its orifice
In a last impulsion
Ultimate offering
Sensual hatching
Sanctified rubbing
Womb of the universe
Asexual performance
Bearing countless generations
þrír
Kraftaverk
Auðhumla
Jörðin nærist á mjólkinni
Úr spenum þínum
Óafturkræfur greiði
Með júgrum þínum
Nærir þú mannkynið
Kraftaverk
Afkvæmi
Förunautur
Ýmir
Virðingarfyllst
Afneitar heiminum fyrir okkur
Kraftaverk
Ganga í kring
Virkja hið lárétta hjól
Vakta handfang þess af ákefð
Hverfult tungl
Örlög okkar velta á spenum þínum
Auðhumla
Líf sem velta á rakastigi
Með fortíðarþrá
Dýraríki í hættu
Villandi birtingarmynd
Auðhumla
Kraftaverk
Auðhumla
Jörðin nærist á mjólkinni
Úr spenum þínum
Óafturkræfur greiði
Með júgrum þínum
Nærir þú mannkynið
Kraftaverk
Afkvæmi
Förunautur
Ýmir
Virðingarfyllst
Afneitar heiminum fyrir okkur
Kraftaverk
Ganga í kring
Virkja hið lárétta hjól
Vakta handfang þess af ákefð
Hverfult tungl
Örlög okkar velta á spenum þínum
Auðhumla
Líf sem velta á rakastigi
Með fortíðarþrá
Dýraríki í hættu
Villandi birtingarmynd
Auðhumla
Three
A miracle
Auðumbla
From your tentacules
You breast-feed the Earth
Irreversible gesture
From your udder
You nourish our civilisation
A miracle
Offspring
Companion
Ymir
With the greatest respect
Renouncing the world for us
A miracle
Walking all around
Activating the horizontal wheel
Furiously monitoring its handles
Ephemeral moon
Our destiny depended on your teats
Auðumbla
Lives depending on a state of moist
With nostalgia
A fauna in jeopardy
Illusory manifestations
Auðumbla
A miracle
Auðumbla
From your tentacules
You breast-feed the Earth
Irreversible gesture
From your udder
You nourish our civilisation
A miracle
Offspring
Companion
Ymir
With the greatest respect
Renouncing the world for us
A miracle
Walking all around
Activating the horizontal wheel
Furiously monitoring its handles
Ephemeral moon
Our destiny depended on your teats
Auðumbla
Lives depending on a state of moist
With nostalgia
A fauna in jeopardy
Illusory manifestations
Auðumbla
Fjórir
Með tungunni þinni
Sleikir þú burt öll saltlög
Fjall eftir fjall
Sleikir lausa fyrstu manneskjuna
Hvínandi vindur yfir hárinu hans
Visnandi sjáaldur
Berskjölduð húðþekja
Fjall eftir fjall
Sjóðandi æðar
Liðbönd koma í ljós
Með þakklæti
Fjall eftir fjall
Með tungunni þinni
Sleikir þú burt öll saltlög
Fjall eftir fjall
Sleikir lausa fyrstu manneskjuna
Hvínandi vindur yfir hárinu hans
Visnandi sjáaldur
Berskjölduð húðþekja
Fjall eftir fjall
Sjóðandi æðar
Liðbönd koma í ljós
Með þakklæti
Fjall eftir fjall
Four
From your tongue
You lick away every salty layer
Mountain after mountain
Licking free the first of the men
Whistling wind over his hair
Withered pupils
Exposed epidermis
Mountain after mountain
Boiling veins
Unfolding ligaments
With gratitude
Mountain after mountain
From your tongue
You lick away every salty layer
Mountain after mountain
Licking free the first of the men
Whistling wind over his hair
Withered pupils
Exposed epidermis
Mountain after mountain
Boiling veins
Unfolding ligaments
With gratitude
Mountain after mountain
Fimm
Mennskur minnisvarði
Faðir íssins
Þú fjölgar þér einn
Andleg iðkun
Aldrei eins
Gast af þér banamenn þína
Upprunalegt föðurmorð
Blóð þitt flæðir um forn höfin
Úr beinum þínum
Þeir bjuggu til hæstu tinda
Úr hári þínu
Reistu synir þínir plönturíkið
Fleygðu heila þínum á meðal stjarnanna
Og augnhárum þín til að tryggja samstöðu
Við töldum okkur hafa skapað guðina
Við kepptumst við þau
Afneitum viðstöðulaust
Hve frumstæðar verur við erum
Án árangurs
Grípum í sleip horn geitarinnar
Í síðasta
Sinn áður en þeir sprengja maga okkar
Mennskur minnisvarði
Faðir íssins
Þú fjölgar þér einn
Andleg iðkun
Aldrei eins
Gast af þér banamenn þína
Upprunalegt föðurmorð
Blóð þitt flæðir um forn höfin
Úr beinum þínum
Þeir bjuggu til hæstu tinda
Úr hári þínu
Reistu synir þínir plönturíkið
Fleygðu heila þínum á meðal stjarnanna
Og augnhárum þín til að tryggja samstöðu
Við töldum okkur hafa skapað guðina
Við kepptumst við þau
Afneitum viðstöðulaust
Hve frumstæðar verur við erum
Án árangurs
Grípum í sleip horn geitarinnar
Í síðasta
Sinn áður en þeir sprengja maga okkar
Five
Human monument
Father of the ice
You reproduce on your own
Spiritual exercice
Never equalled
Spawned your slayers
Original patricide
Your blood floods the ancient oceans
From your bones
They raise thet peaks
From your hair
Your sons lifted up the flora
Hurled your brain to align with the stars
And your eyelashes to guarantee unity
We thought we created the Gods
We competed them
Relentlessly denying
The primeval creatures we are
Vainly gripping
The slippery horns of the goat
In a last attempt
Before they burst our stomachs
Human monument
Father of the ice
You reproduce on your own
Spiritual exercice
Never equalled
Spawned your slayers
Original patricide
Your blood floods the ancient oceans
From your bones
They raise thet peaks
From your hair
Your sons lifted up the flora
Hurled your brain to align with the stars
And your eyelashes to guarantee unity
We thought we created the Gods
We competed them
Relentlessly denying
The primeval creatures we are
Vainly gripping
The slippery horns of the goat
In a last attempt
Before they burst our stomachs