Identity-Sound portraits-Interview-subject 3 /Viðtal 3

The project Identity is a MA PIP project by María Pétursdóttir in the NAIP program at LHÍ/IUA in Reykjavik. The work is an audio/video installation set up originally in the gallery "Fire Station" / "Slökkvistöðin" in Gufunesi in April 2025 for 5 projectors. One of them with running interviews and four of them where people could listen to the sound portraits (song and video) made as a side product from the interviews. These are the interviews in full length. 

In the interviews, which are anonymous, subjects 1-4 are asked the question of how they perceive identity and how it has shaped them through life. The subjects, 4 women go on a journey through their life span to some extent. They are also asked certain key questions like what kind of music they have listened to through time and how music has influenced them through out their life. They get a question about the sound from their childhood or sound image of their mothers.

The interviewed subjects of 4 are a gay woman, a woman living with disability, a former asylum seeker who went through human trafficking and a trans woman. Those definitions are only superficial but indicate that all of them are having class struggles of some sort or are in human rights battle but certainly they all have a story to tell or life experiences that have impacted their identity and self image. They all have in common a traumatic childhood with violence or neglect. Those interviews are dedicated to Womansyear 2025 in Iceland. This is Subject 3