Uppvakning

Abstract

For the past year Guðrún has been researching censorship. Diving into the subject of direct censorship, the censorship of oppressing governments and dictators, artists in exile, soft censorship and self censorship took her back to ancient Greece and one of the oldest cases of censorship - the prosecution and death of Socrates.With her graduation work Necromancy of Socrates – Guðrún Heiður looks to un-work the censorship of Socrates by bringing him back to life using the same organic materials of hemlock that were used to kill him in the first place, and inviting Icelandic philosophers to speculate on how the core-ideas of Socrates might entangle themselves in the lived realities of our time.