Borgarbókasafn Gerðubergi

Music piece / Tónverk

Anna is a labour organiser and care worker who moved to Iceland after finishing her master’s degree in Kraków.
Living in Reykjavík, she worked within various occupations as a housekeeper, cleaner, waitress and teacher in an after-school programme.
The recordings in this song are from a phone conversation that Anna had with her friend back in Poland. In addition, we hear excerpts from Anna’s speech during a protest march at the general strike in Reykjavík in the spring of 2019. She held her speech both in English and Polish, advocating for low-income workers and the migrant workforce. People of Polish origin constitute 5% of Iceland’s population and are the largest immigrant group.
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Anna vinnur í umönnunarstarfi og í samtökum fyrir verkafólk. Hún flutti til Íslands eftir að hún kláraði MA-gráðuna sína í Kraków.
Í Reykjavík hefur hún unnið í fjölmörgum störfum, til dæmis sem hótelþerna, ræstingarkona, þjónn og sem leiðbeinandi í frístundaheimili.
Upptökurnar í þessu lagi eru úr símtali Önnu við vinkonu sína í Póllandi. Auk þess heyrum við brot úr ræðu sem Anna hélt á kröfugöngu í verkfalli láglaunafólks í Reykjavík vorið 2019. Hún hélt ræðuna sína bæði á ensku og pólsku og tók málstað láglaunafólks og erlends verkafólks. Fólk af pólskum bakgrunni er 5% af íbúum á Íslandi og þar með stærsti hópur innflytjenda.

 

Art piece / Listaverk

by Ewa Marcinek

Second skin
Costume, 2020

“ A whole body suit made from yellow rubber gloves stitched together using medical suture protects your delicate human composition from any harsh, harmful or simply unpleasant reality in a new country. Inspired by Wiola Ujazdowska’s explorations of the universe of female migrant workers in Iceland.”








Ewa Marcinek is a Polish artist, writer and producer living in Reykjavik. She is a co-founder of Ós Pressan, a multilingual writing collective and publishing group, and the international theatre company Reykjavík Ensemble. In her work Ewa plays with memories, identities and private stories.


www.ewamarcinek.com