LungA School
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|name = LungA School
|native_name = LungA Skólinn
|established = 2013
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|director = Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson
|city = Seyðisfjörður
|country = Iceland
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|type =Art school and folk high school
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|website = {{URL|http://www.lungaschool.is/}}
|logo = LungA_School_logo.svg
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LungA School is an artist-run residential art school based in Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland{{cite news|title=Explore the Beauty of East Iceland|url=https://icelandictimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IT-English-47-WEB-spread.pdf|accessdate=13 May 2024|work=Icelandic Times|issue=47|date=2022}} that offers programs in Art and Land.{{cite news |author1=Albert Örn Eyþórsson |title=NÝR SKÓLASTJÓRI LUNGA-SKÓLANS |url=https://agl.austurfrett.is/p/austurfrett/11-4-2024/r/10/18-19/6507/1411329 |accessdate=3 May 2024 |work=Austurfrétt/Austurglugginn |date=11 April 2024 |language=Icelandic}} Although constituted and regulated as a school, LungA School is often also understood as being an artwork,{{cite web |url=https://utsthinkglobal.com/2018/08/31/seydisfjordur-harbour-for-lost-souls/|title=Seydisfjordur: harbour for lost souls |author=Joanna Joy |date=31 August 2018 |website=UTS Think Global |access-date=31 August 2024}} artistic practice,{{cite book |last=Spejlborg Juelsbo |first=Jonatan |date=2023 |chapter=LungA School - Doing school as collective artistic practice|title=The Nordic Folk High School Teacher: Identity, Work and Education |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bxbQEAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 |publisher=LIT Verlag |page=83-97|isbn=978-3-643-91240-4}} or a performance lasting 84 days,{{cite web |url=http://www.projectanywhere.net/84-by-lunga-school/ |title=LungA School, 84, LungA School, Global Exhibition Program 2018 |author= |date= |website=Project Anywhere |access-date=31 August 2024}} that uses the idea of schooling as its medium or form.
History
Inspired by anarchist pedagogies,{{cite book |last=Lövgren|first=Johan |date=2023|chapter=Meta-analysis of concepts and findings: The identity of the Nordic folk high school teacher|title=The Nordic Folk High School Teacher: Identity, Work and Education|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bxbQEAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1|publisher=LIT Verlag|page=106|isbn=978-3-643-91240-4}} the school grew out of the LungA Art Festival, and was founded by Danish artist Jonatan Spejlborg Juelsbo and Icelandic artist and musician Björt Sigfinnsdóttir, the festival's co-founder and director.{{cite magazine |last=Yamasaki|first=Parker|date=2013|title=Kicking It New School|url=https://grapevine.is/icelandic-culture/art/2013/08/07/listen-to-your-art/|magazine=The Reykjavík Grapevine|location=Reykjavík|publisher=Jón Trausti Sigurðarson|access-date=3 May 2024}}{{Cite web|url=https://andrewjtaggart.com/2013/08/09/lunga-school-an-ambitious-offspring-of-the-festival/|title=Lunga School, 'an ambitious offspring of the festival'|website=andrewjtaggart.com|date=9 August 2013 |language=en-GB|access-date=4 May 2024}} Like the festival before it, the school's name is a portmanteau of the Icelandic words 'lista' (art), 'ungur' (young) and 'Austurlandi' (East).{{cite web |url=https://guidetoiceland.is/fi/islannin-matkailu/kohteet/seydisfjordur |title=Matkaopas: Seyðisfjörður |author= |date= |website=Guide to Iceland |access-date=3 May 2024}}{{cite report |author= Pétursdóttir, Elfa Hlín; Halldórsdóttir, Tinna Kristbjörg; Rømer, Lene; Holm, Dennis; Hansen, Marianne |date= May 2015 |title= Home is where the island heart beats: Out-migrants contribution to their former homes through cultural events |url=https://www.pure.fo/ws/portalfiles/portal/23628051/home_is_where_the_island_heart_beats_final_ELECTRONIC_sept_2015.pdf |publisher= Austurbrú|page= 78|access-date= 21 July 2024|quote= LungA stands for Listahátíð UNGs fólks á Austurlandi}}
The school was formalized in 2013 with the first program launching in 2014, and is one of only two folk high schools in Iceland,{{cite journal |last1=Antonsdóttir |first1=Júlí Ósk |last2=Þorsteinsdóttir |first2=Ragnheiður Elfa |last3=Ólafsdóttir |first3=Anna |date=2021 |title=Aðdragandi, tilurð og inntak íslenskrar löggjafar um lýðskóla |url=https://opinvisindi.is/bitstream/handle/20.500.11815/2870/3460_5952_1_PB.pdf |journal= Tímarit um uppeldi og menntun / Icelandic Journal of Education |volume=2 |issue=30 |pages=167–184 |doi=10.24270/tuuom.2018.27.10 |access-date=11 June 2024 |language=Icelandic}} joined by Lýðháskólinn á Flateyri in 2017.{{cite book |last=Spejlborg Juelsbo |first=Jonatan |date=2023 |chapter=LungA School - Doing school as collective artistic practice|title=The Nordic Folk High School Teacher: Identity, Work and Education |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bxbQEAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 |publisher=LIT Verlag |page=83-97|isbn=978-3-643-91240-4}}{{Cite web|url=https://grapevine.is/icelandic-culture/art/2014/10/14/breathing-life-into-arts-education/|title=Breathing Life Into Arts Education|website=grapevine.is|language=en-GB|access-date=4 May 2024}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.norden.org/en/info-norden/secondary-school-iceland/|title=Secondary School in Iceland|website=norden.org|language=en-GB|access-date=13 May 2024}} It takes applicants aged 18 years and over from around the world.{{cite book |last=Kelly |first=Robert |date=2016 |title=Creative Development: Transforming Education through Design Thinking, Innovation, and Invention |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j9VTDAAAQBAJ&dq=%22lunga%20school%22&pg=PP1 |publisher=Brush Education |page=xi|isbn=978-1550596687}}
Programs at the school were originally named '84' after the number of days of their duration.{{cite web |url=http://www.projectanywhere.net/84-by-lunga-school/ |title=LungA School, 84, LungA School, Global Exhibition Program 2018 |author= |date= |website=Project Anywhere |access-date=11 December 2024}} In early 2024 the school started a Land program focused on ideas of land, environment and ecology, with 84 renamed as the Art program.{{cite news |author1=Albert Örn Eyþórsson |title=Mikils vert að LungA-skólinn njóti stuðnings Seyðfirðinga |url=https://austurfrett.is/lifid/mikils-vert-adh-lunga-skolinn-njoti-studhnings-seydhfirdhinga |accessdate=13 August 2024 |work=Austurfrétt/Austurglugginn |date=15 August 2024 |language=Icelandic}} Also in 2024, the school announced they were starting a Radio School to take place entirely on-air from February 2025.{{cite news |author1=Albert Örn Eyþórsson |title=Kynna fyrstu námsbraut LungA-skólans sem hægt er að taka í fjarnámi |url=https://www.austurfrett.is/lifid/kynna-fyrstu-namsbraut-lunga-skolans-sem-haegt-er-adh-taka-i-fjarnami|accessdate=28 November 2024 |work=Austurfrétt/Austurglugginn |date=15 August 2024 |language=Icelandic}}
Facilities
Many of LungA School's buildings and facilities are co-opted from local industry, either occupying spaces underused outside of Seyðisfjörður's busy tourist season or redeveloping spaces vacated by changes to the local fishing industry.{{Cite web|url=https://skemman.is/bitstream/1946/39311/1/VikramPradhan_MA2020.pdf|title=Keepers Of Light: History and Speculations on the future of Icelandic Lighthouses|website=skemman.is|language=en-GB|access-date=4 May 2024}}{{Cite web|url=https://leguesswho.com/news/COSMOS-Iceland-Embassy-SCR-LungA-School|title=The Hidden Artist Refuge in Remote Iceland|website=leguesswho.com|language=en-GB|access-date=27 June 2025}} Part of the school is also based in the Herðubreið Community and Culture House, upstairs from the Herðubíó, East Iceland's only cinema and host to the Flat Earth Film Festival, an annual film festival of experimental art film.{{cite news |author1=Iryna Zubenko |title=Inside Iceland’s Most Remote Cinema |url=https://grapevine.is/icelandic-culture/2024/08/16/inside-icelands-most-remote-cinema/|accessdate=17 August 2024 |date=16 August 2024}}
Since 2016 the school has been the host to an experimental community radio station, Seyðisfjörður Community Radio. In early 2024, Seyðisfjörður Community Radio became part of the Lithuania-based Independent Community Radio Network.{{cite news |author1=Ish Sveinsson Houle |title=Good Morning, Seyðisfjörður! |url=https://grapevine.is/music/2024/07/02/good-morning-seydisfjordur/|accessdate=3 July 2024 |date=2 July 2024}}{{Cite Instagram |user=i_c_r_n |postid=C7D9tj-NigJ|date=17 May 2024 |title=We’re so happy to announce that @seydisfjordur.community.radio have joined the network this year! |access-date=3 December 2024}}
Administration
American British artist and curator Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson was hired as the new director of the school in October 2023,{{cite news |author1=Albert Örn Eyþórsson |title=NÝR SKÓLASTJÓRI LUNGA-SKÓLANS |url=https://agl.austurfrett.is/p/austurfrett/11-4-2024/r/10/18-19/6507/1411329 |accessdate=3 May 2024 |work=Austurfrétt/Austurglugginn |date=11 April 2024 |language=Icelandic}} although the school aims for collaborative and decentralised organisational practices.{{cite news |author1=Travis Wychen |title=Deathguild Dialogues #2 |url=https://medium.com/@traviswyche/deathguild-dialogues-2-f2fecf8ff9dd |accessdate=20 December 2024 |date=14 August 2021}}{{cite book |last=Spejlborg Juelsbo |first=Jonatan |date=2023 |chapter=LungA School - Doing school as collective artistic practice|title=The Nordic Folk High School Teacher: Identity, Work and Education |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bxbQEAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 |publisher=LIT Verlag |page=83-97|isbn=978-3-643-91240-4}}
References
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External links
- [http://lungaschool.is/ Official site]
- [https://seydisfjordurcommunityradio.net/ Seyðisfjörður Community Radio]
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Category:Art schools in Europe