The Visitors
19 Oct 2022 - 28 Sep 2025
- An installation piece that made me cry, and apparently I'm not alone.
- (a youtube video does not do it justice, it's an installation piece and it helps to be inside it)
- “My works are all kind of anti-storytelling,” he said. “They’re always about a feeling, but there’s no story.” ‘The Visitors,’ by Ragnar Kjartansson - The New York Times
- A whole book complete with interactive music theory lessons Revisiting ‘The Visitors’: An oral history of Ragnar Kjartansson’s multimedia masterpiece - Washington Post
When you’re in Ragnar’s company, you can tell that he’s playing with the world. There is humor and lightness. But what’s interesting, perversely, is that this is exactly how you get to the deepest space. If you’re lighthearted and have a sense of humor, then you open a portal to a vulnerable place inside yourself.
- ≡ Shahzad Ismaily, in that WP piece
