The Tale and the Tongue: Stories of Friendship

Stories of Friendship—episode fifteen of The Tale and the Tongue series—emerged from a conversation with the constellating artist-duo and friends Tara Njála Ingvarsdóttir and Silfrun Una Guðlaugsdóttir with Sonia Fernández Pan, the host of The Tale and the Tongue podcast series. Sonia Fernández Pan first met Tara Njála Ingvarsdóttir and Silfrun Una Guðlaugsdóttir on their way to LungA School in Seyðisfjörður, Island, where they were invited to lead two workshops. Seeing them being dressed alike, giving two different characters to the same piece of clothing, gave a glimpse to something that is very present in their work as artists: the way in which everyday life and art can become friends, thanks to playful gestures and storytelling stimuli. Sonia Fernández Pan proposed them a little play: to tell her separately about a memory of their friendship. Tara Njála Ingvarsdóttir would tell the story of the little bugs, and Silla Una Guðlaugsdóttir would share past situations and present emotions that make friendship a living home. When asked about their reasons for studying art, both agreed that art is a space where it is possible to be various things at the same time. The artist becomes a shape shifter, a temporary identity, also the excuse for a story with many other characters. This way of doing things has enabled them to become waterproof gallerists, heads of a company providing apology support, emotional dinner party hosts, hairdressers for naughty hairstyles, or bird-shaped instrument players. Recently they got married in blue, celebrating their friendship and their constellating life together. The wedding included a contract in which they signed a piece of advice that someone gave them: to put friendship first. Their friendship wedding was officiated by the Icelandic Love Corporation, and sweetened by the world’s largest cake and intimate talks at night. Performance as an artistic device is a medium that not only allows the
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