BROTHÆTT: RITUALS OF REPAIR

 in collaboration with Dansverkstæðið

The project is built around a series of rituals that soothe feelings of lack and imperfection. By gathering together material and intangible fragments and shaping them into a new whole through connection, gentleness, and compassion, the work elevates the beauty within imperfection and carries a healing potential.

Guests are invited to bring broken ceramics, which are either repaired or incorporated into a large mosaic work. At the same time, stories are collected about broken objects, broken bones, broken identities, broken dreams, broken relationships, friendships, and marriages. Participants are also given the opportunity to confess mistakes, to forgive themselves and one another. Stories and confessions are recorded anonymously and will be transformed into a sound work or performed by a choir in staged rituals. The project travels around the capital area, with its headquarters at Dansverkstæðið.

RITUAL I: The Healing

A mosaic work is created from fragments gathered from many places, forming a whole that reflects the diversity of human life and the healing power of solidarity. The work draws on the philosophy of the mandala as a practice embodying the cyclical systems of existence, impermanence, and transformation — a circular form symbolizing both the world and the self.

Bring broken ceramics and take part in creating a beautiful artwork from the fragments of many.

Share your story about what has broken in your life. Your story will become part of a larger archive — a sound work that can be listened to alongside the completed mosaic.

DANSVERKSTÆÐIÐ
FEBRUARY 16 – MARCH 28, 2026

RITUAL II: The Repair

Individuals or pairs (friends, family members) are invited to an intimate performatvie encounter with the performance maker, where the focus is on repairing what has been broken. The encounter blends the mending of the tangible and the intangible. Conversations that take place during the repair remain confidential, but each meeting may generate an anonymous text to be used in Ritual III.

Bring a broken object you care about so that the fragments can be mended with gold, or bring a garment with a hole to be repaired with golden thread.

Bring an experience of an inner fracture you wish to mend with care and attention.

DANSVERKSTÆÐIÐ
MAY 2026 / SATURDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS

RITUAL III: The Forgiveness

The Forgiveness is a ritual in which we ask one another for forgiveness for mistakes we believe we have made. Confessions may range from minor oversights to more serious wrongdoings. The ritual is performed as an antiphonal exchange for a divided choir, where confessions and acts of forgiveness resound in alternation.

Share your confession on the project website, by visiting the headquarters at Dansverkstæðið or a Brothætt satellite location, or by booking a performative encounter with the performance maker.

Take part in performing the ritual by temporarily joining the dance choir.

DANSVERKSTÆÐIÐ
NOVEMBER 2026