Reykjavík Grapevine - 13.09.2019, Page 56

L IF E , T R AV EL & EN T ER TA INMEN T IN ICEL A ND
Issue 16 × 2019
Sep 13th—Sep 26th
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LAST WORDS
Obituary For
Listastofan
Words: Grayson Del Faro
Listastofan will pass away not so quietly on
September 19th, 2019. It was born on Octo-
ber 12th, 2015 to Martyna Daniel and Emma
Sanderson, who clearly had no idea what
they were getting themselves into. Since
its youth, Listastofan cultivated strange
taste in art and even stranger taste in art-
ists and, worse, in poets. It acted as a co-
working space, exhibition gallery, movie
theater, music studio, laboratory, unlikely
nightclub, and possibly a clandestine spot
for drunken hookups. It lived a complex
life full of paint, sawdust, ceramic genita-
lia, ramshackle photobooths, piles of lit-
eral trash, uncomfortable performances,
teenage diaries, and more photos of Icelan-
dic landscapes than there are actual land-
scapes in Iceland—all in the name of art.
Listastofan is survived by its original
co-founders, Martyna and Emma, and
three later co-directors: Emmanuelle,
Lina, and Gabi. Other survivors include
the twelve-ish in-house artists who’ll now
have to draw, compose, build, and do what-
ever other weird things they call art in
their mothers’ garages because they prob-
ably live with their mothers anyway. Also
grieved are all the broke students who es-
pecially enjoyed the free wine at openings.
On the subject of survivors, if you believe
Listastofan owes you money, please take
it up with your lawyer. They can’t do any-
thing but it might make you feel better. If
you believe Listastofan may be the father
of your child, please take the results of the
paternity test to your grave.
A celebration of Listastofan’s life will be
held on September 19th at Listastofan and
later at Iðnó, with musical performances,
awkward goodbyes, and, in the style of Lis-
tastofan, branded underwear. Although it
lasted unusually long by Reykjavík’s stan-
dards, its life was still tragically short for
any space as simply fucking special as Lis-
tastofan. At only four years old, Listasto-
fan will finally be taking its own advice:
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