Dunce

Dunce Magazine on choreography and performance art

Editor: Sóley Frostadóttir
Publishing: Print & Friends Verlag
Graphic design and layout: Helga Dögg Ólafsdóttir
Supervision of photography: Leifur Wilberg
Copy editor: Joe Keys

Authors:
Alma Mjöll Ólafsdóttir
Anna Kolfinna Kuran
Dagrún Aðalsteinsdóttir
Elísabet Birta Sveinsdóttir
Erin Gigl
Marie Bergby Handeland
Mlondi Dubazane

"I think it is important to give space to alternative body states on stage and celebrate them as visceral denials of the...
07/10/2025

"I think it is important to give space to alternative body states on stage and celebrate them as visceral denials of the externally and internally imposed imperatives to achieve and to draw a contrast with the logic of hyperactivity by presenting an alternative kind of energy and strength. My aim has always been to create a counter proposal to today’s popular culture by going beyond the able, vigorous, high performance and aesthetic body and furthering the notion of what dance can be." - in Dunce IV

Photo 1: Pervasive Magnetic Stimuli, 2018. Photo by Eva Schmidhuber.
Photo 2: Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir. Photo by Anne-Sophie Guillet

"To publish through the body, whether our own or others’, is to harness existing, moving energy for communication. It’s ...
06/10/2025

"To publish through the body, whether our own or others’, is to harness existing, moving energy for communication. It’s not linear nor does it follow a pattern, it’s unpredictably messy and vivid. The body itself transcends fixed categories. It resists being fully inclusive or exclusive. The only real filter for a bodily message is the body itself. Existing in public space, it moves through randomness and chance encounters." -Carlo Canún. Body of Text, Dunce IV. 💥

You can read this beautiful article in the most recent issue of Dunce available at duncemagazine.com

© Carlo's left-ear piercing, by José Miguel Ramírez, 2025


~ Performance Machines ~ in Dunce IV  wrote an article about Steina Vasulka's work in relation to the retrospective Tíma...
04/10/2025

~ Performance Machines ~ in Dunce IV

wrote an article about Steina Vasulka's work in relation to the retrospective Tímaflakk opening today at and .



 is busy printing the 4th issue in black and red risograph and it's turning out amazing. A week until we launch!!       ...
02/10/2025

is busy printing the 4th issue in black and red risograph and it's turning out amazing. A week until we launch!!


"Themes like conviviality, hospitality, and food as a chronicler have deeply inspired me. But what draws me into food is...
30/09/2025

"Themes like conviviality, hospitality, and food as a chronicler have deeply inspired me. But what draws me into food is the potential for what I call “the radical experience”—moments when taste, smell, sound, and sensation open pathways for critical thinking and self-reflection." 🍲🌱

"In response to the upcoming edition of Sequences, we will focus on MASA (corn dough) and its pre-colonial legacy. From fermentation and grinding to sculpting and tasting, we envision masa not merely as food, but as a sensorial, ritualistic pilgrimage—nourishing both body and spirit, and celebrating food as a performative experience and living matter."
- Hugo Llanes, in Dunce IV

© Hugo Llanes and Lucky 3 Collective Los Primxs: Culinary exchange through a common colonial past: Philippines-Mexico, 2023. Photography by Andrés Alafita for Local Taller.

Sequences Art Festival

 captured in the studio with .s.dottir Photo by
15/06/2023

captured in the studio with .s.dottir

Photo by


Við erum í skýjunum! 🌫 Dunce hlaut tilnefningu til Grímunnar í vikunni sem Sproti ársins. ✨Það er ómetanlegt að fá svona...
09/06/2023

Við erum í skýjunum! 🌫 Dunce hlaut tilnefningu til Grímunnar í vikunni sem Sproti ársins. ✨

Það er ómetanlegt að fá svona fallega hvatningu. Takk fyrir okkur og til hamingju öll sem eiga í hlut!

"Tímaritið Dunce er tilnefnt til Sprotans fyrir eftirtektarverða nýsköpun á sviði skrásetningar á danslist, kóreógrafíu og gjörningalist. Dunce veitir listafólki á þessu sviði nýjan vettvang til að eiga samtal, miðla hugleiðingum sínum og halda utan um listform sem í einkenni sínu er hverfult. Dunce er einstaklega vandað í máli og myndum og miðlar íslenskri list utan landsteina ásamt því að tengja saman listamenn hvaðanæva að úr heiminum."

Tilnefningar til Grímunnar – íslensku sviðslistarverðlaunanna, voru kynntar í Tjarnarbíói í kvöld.

This past week we introduced Dunce in Porto, making the acquaintance of booksellers and discovering some very unique boo...
25/05/2023

This past week we introduced Dunce in Porto, making the acquaintance of booksellers and discovering some very unique bookstores. Sigurður Atli gave a lecture on artist books and publishing at the University of Porto.
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Sóley Frostadóttir is a choreographer and the founder and editor of Dunce. Sigurður Atli Sigurðsson is a visual artist in charge of art direction with Helga Dögg Ólafsdóttir.







.livros in pictures. Find your copy of Dunce Magazine amongst this beautiful literary selection.
23/05/2023

.livros in pictures. Find your copy of Dunce Magazine amongst this beautiful literary selection.


This is Dagrún Aðalsteinsdóttir,  artist and writer based in Berlin and Reykjavík. She has written two articles for Dunc...
19/05/2023

This is Dagrún Aðalsteinsdóttir, artist and writer based in Berlin and Reykjavík. She has written two articles for Dunce. Her most recent contribution being "Orientation" published in the 3rd issue. The article is written in relation to her exhibition at in Reykjavík this spring.

Portrait of printed in riso by




Introducing Dunce Magazine in Porto
16/05/2023

Introducing Dunce Magazine in Porto


A spread made from the  archive by  for a chapter dedicated to the   in Dunce III 📖
16/05/2023

A spread made from the archive by for a chapter dedicated to the in Dunce III 📖


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