NS-12: In Kooperation mit dem ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe

NS-12 is an expressive audiovisual portrait of an Icelandic fishing trawler created through the collaboration of the filmmaker Kristján Loðmfjörð and the composer Konrad Korabiewski. Alternately presented as a multi-channel audio and visual installation or as a work for 5.1 cinema screening, NS-12 poetically considers a fishing trawler in East Iceland as a self-contained world, a space which functions both as workplace and as collective living arrangement with its own rhythms, demands, and mythologies. Artistically, the ship is perceived as a living organism, as a musical instrument, and as an industrial visual landscape with distinctive textures and colors.

The book includes essays by Daniel Canty and Anna Friz, an interview by Kristín Ómarsdóttir with Iceland s former president Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, and online access to the full audiovisual work released in partnership with ZKM Institute for Music and Acoustics.