W.A.I.D.W.M.L.

2017 tour: Autarkia, Vilnius, Broken Dimanche, Berlin, Lithuanian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, A-Dash in Athens, Kunstverein Amsterdam, Oronsko, Poland, That Might Be Right, Brussels, Kling & Bang, Reykjavík.

Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson’s performance What Am I Doing With My Life? (WAIDWML) is a rap show based on the topics of the environment, (alternative) medicine and death. The performance on tour is conceived as a medical intervention of sorts acupuncturing cities with local collaborations to heal and fuse relations. Styrmir is the doctor, the guest artists are the surgeon and nurse, and the musician is the anesthetist. The tour map is a body - Poland at the toes, Iceland is the nose and Styrmir needs his various faculties for each body part.

The prototype of the performance took place in Riga 2016 during the Survival Kit Art Festival. The 2017 tour includes the locations of Autarkia, Vilnius, Broken Dimanche, Berlin, Lithuanian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, A-Dash in Athens, Kunstverein Amsterdam, Oronsko, Poland and That Might Be Right, Brussels. The final performance and protest parade will take place at Kling & Bang in the Marshall House in Reykjavík. Stay tuned for the album launch in Warsaw in 2018.

What am I Doing with My Life?, Riga, Latvia W.A.I.D:W.M.L? with Jurgis Paškevičius, Robertas Narkus, 2017, Autarkia, Vilnius, Lithuania
Photo: Andrej Vasilenko

W.A.I.D.W.M.L.? with Árni Jónsson, Indriði Arnar Ingólfsson, Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson, 2017, Broken Dimanche, Berlin

WAIDWML with Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir, Jokūbas Čižikas, Indriði Arnar Ingólfsson, Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson on the opening of Žilvinas Landzbergas, "R", Lithuanian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, 2017

WAIDWML with Indriði Arnar Ingólfsson, Lithuanian Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale, 2017

WAIDWML with Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir, Jokūbas Čižikas, Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson, Lithuanian Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale, 2017

WAIDWML with Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir, Jokūbas Čižikas, Indriði Arnar Ingólfsson, Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson, Lithuanian Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale, 2017

WAIDWML with Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson, Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir, Lithuanian Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale, 2017

WAIDWML with Jokūbas Čižikas, (Arnar Ásgeirsson, , David Bernstein, Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson), 2017, A-Dash, Athens, Greece

WAIDWML with Arnar Ásgeirsson, Jokūbas Čižikas, David Bernstein, Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson, 2017 at A-Dash, Athens, Greece

WAIDWML with Indriði Arnar Ingólfsson, David Bernstein, Géraldine Longueville, Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Anat Spiegel, Thomas Myrme, Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson, 2017, Kunstverien Amsterdam Photo: Tabea Feuerstein

WAIDWML with Indriði Arnar Ingólfsson, Géraldine Longueville, David Bernstein, Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson, 2017, That Might Be Right, Brussels

WAIDWML with Géraldine Longueville, 2017, That Might Be Right, Brussels

WAIDWML with Indriði Arnar Ingólfsson, Sttyrmir Örn Guðmundsson, 2017, That Might Be Right, Brussels

WAIDWML with Indriði Arnar Ingólfsson, Örn Alexander Ámundason, Arnar Ásgeirsson, Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir. Bergur Thomas Anderson, xx, Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson, 2017, Kling og Bang, Reykjavík, live on RúV filmed by Benedikt Nikulás

A short clip of one of the WAIDWML performances by Hilmar Guðjónsson at Kling and Bang, Reykjavík.