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.
Author. Steinunn Knúts Önnudóttir
RITUAL I - THE HEALING
MARCH 2026 / DANSVERKSTÆÐIÐ
30TH MAY – 14TH JUNE / KLÚBBURINN REYKJAVÍK ARTFESTIVAL
Do you want to share what is broken?
Do you have broken ceramics?
Do you want to smash something that is of no longer of use to you?
Steinunn Knúts Önnudóttir, performance maker and artistic researcher invites guests to create a collective mosaic from broken ceramics. Alongside this process, she gathers anonymous stories of what has broken in people’s lives.
The healing is the first of three rituals in the project Brothætt, a participatory work that engages with fragility and imperfection in human existence and affirms the beauty within imperfection.
In Healing, the foundational gesture is to release what is broken, ruptured, or no longer functioning, allowing the fragments to acquire meaning within a new context, where they join the fragments of others and form a larger whole.
Broken ceramics and personal accounts constitute interconnected layers of the work, the material and the experiential . Stories of broken objects, broken bones, broke identities, broken dreams, and broken relationships become a sound work presented alongside a circular mosaic that refers to the cyclical nature of existence, impermanence, and transformation. Image and sound unfold together as an experience that bears witness to the power of connection and empathy.
Visitors are invited to:
– bring broken ceramics
– brake ceramics that is of no longer use to you
– participate in making the mosaic
– enter into conversation with the artist
– write an anonymous story
– record their story
Steinunn receives guests at Dance atelier in Hjarðarhagi 23 February – 28 March
Tuesdays, Wednesdays,Thursdays, 10:00–16:00.
Wednesday 18.March 19 -21.
No booking required.
Klúbburinn Listahátíð í Reykjavík – Iðnó.
Times: TBA
Small groups can be accommodated by arrangement: fallegt@fallegt.com
RITUAL II - THE REPAIR
MAY 2026 / DANSVERKSTÆÐIÐ
From 13–30 May, Steinunn Knúts Önnudóttir invites guests into staged encounters in Studio 3 at Dansverkstæðið, where a personal ritual of repair takes place.
The Repair is the second part of the project Brothætt, which unfolds as a series of rituals that attend to feelings of lack and imperfection. By gathering material and immaterial fragments and shaping them into a new whole through relation, gentleness, and care, the work brings forward the beauty of imperfection and opens a space for healing.
In The Repair, individuals or pairs (friends, family) are invited into a ritual where we work with mending what is broken. The ritual moves between the tangible and the intangible. Conversations that take place remain confidential, yet each encounter may give rise to an anonymous text that will be carried into Ritual III.
Bring a broken object (ceramics) that matters to you, so the fragments can be rejoined with gold.
Bring an experience of something intangible that you wish to mend with attention and care.
Wednesdays and Saturdays, 13–30 May 2026
Wednesdays: 13:00 – 14:30 – 16:00 – 18:30
Saturdays: 11:00 – 12:30 – 14:00 – 15:30
Each ritual lasts around 60 minutes and takes place in Studio 3, Dansverkstæðið, Hjarðarhagi 47, 107 Reykjavík.
Price: 4900 ISK
Bookings: fallegt@fallegt.com
Please specify time and participants – maximum 3.
RITUAL III - THE FORGIVNESS
NOVEMBER 2026 / TBA
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 choir of mistakes.
CO-CREATORS BROGAN DAVISON AND JÓHANNA VALA HÖSKULDSDÓTTIR
