Dan Helgi Helgason í Gong

Dan Helgi Helgason í Gong

Sound ArtistTórshavn, Faroe Islands
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Dan Helgi Helgason í Gong

Dan Helgi Helgason í Gong

Sound ArtistTórshavn, Faroe Islands
About me
DAN HELGI HELGASON Í GONG is from Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands. He mainly works across music and voice. Most recently he made music for the Faroese clothing brand Soul Made, used during the J Autumn Fashion Show 2014, this year held on the Eiffel Tower in Paris. He has also made music for designer Barbara í Gongini for a show in one of her pop-up shops. He completed a BA in Commercial Music in 2012 at University of Westminster, and his MA in Sound Art at University of the Arts London in 2014.
Projects
  • I Have Your SpaceThe initial idea behind this sound piece was for it to be played in a lift with hidden speakers. This was to somehow interfere with the automated voice already in the lift and also to interfere with the space itself, some sort of elevator music?
  • #HLMB / He Loves My Body
    #HLMB / He Loves My BodyThis audiovisual work seeks to question assumptions we build of people through voice, looks, gestures etc. As a man, bending your hand makes you gay? As a woman, spreading your legs as you sit makes you lesbian? Drawing inspiration from Contemporary dance and existing Pop lyrics on themes of sexual adoration expressed by a woman towards a man, the work underlines how this sort of adoration is not prominent (if at all) when it comes to male expressions towards other men in Pop. ''He loves my body...'' is certainly something Beyoncé could have written, but she did not. Dan Helgi sets out to critique the heterogenous world of Pop, as well making a critique of ourselves as judges. The audiovisual piece was exhibited at Angus-Hughes Gallery in December 2014.
  • Straight-acting the SoundSound piece on gay online dating and gay men who identify as 'straight-acting'.
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Work history
    Sound Artist
    Sales Advisor
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Skills
  • Fashion
  • Sound Recordist
  • Visual Arts
  • Fine Art
  • Sound Editor
  • Sound Design
  • Digital Artist
  • Singer
  • Songwriter
  • Audio
  • Composition
  • Vocalist
  • Final Cut Pro
  • Word
  • Sound Art
Education
    Sound Art
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    Commercial Music
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