COLLECTION 2 - AVANT-GARDE

KALTBLUT
The woman I fell in love with. Berglind
Agustsdottir is not from this planet. She
is one of the most creative and colourfull
artists I have ever met. It could be
because she is from Iceland, I don´t
know. Berglind is doing music, drawings,
parties , performances and so much
more. Her voice is stunning. Her sound
as unique as she is. Sometimes I am sitting by my window
and I see her on her bike on my street. This little moment
makes my heart smile. Yes Berglind has the power to heal
the world. Ladys & gentlemens, Berglind Agustsdottir!
KALTBLUT: Hello Berglind welcome to our little
magazine. You know you are one of the reasons why
we do an Avant-garde issue. Cause I think you are
one of the new Avant-gardists here in Berlin. What
means Avant-garde to you?
BERGLIND: To be honest I never really thought
that word until you started talking about it and I had
no idea I was one of the reasons you´re doing the
issue which is very flattering and makes me feel all
super excited and blush. Of course I can look it up
and give you the dictionary explanation, actually I
have a small fetish with dictionaries, I´m all the time
with my head in them, looking at words like love.
Because I love the way they explain it. So I may just
do that : Avant-garde noun (usu. the avant-garde).
New and unusual or experimental ideas, esp. in the
arts, or the people introducing them. That sounds
nice. I always been experimental but my art comes
from a deep place of of love and anxiety and some
kind of mix between fairy tales, the truth and fantasy.
KALTBLUT: I met you for the first time 1,5 year
ago at a party. You performed there and I fell in love
with your voice. But you are multi-talented. Music,
visual arts, performance, paintings and party maker.
But who is Berglind?
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BERGLIND: Hahaha who is Berglind? It´s me. Who
am I. I am a bit extrovert, full of color but also super
shy which is a strange mix, I´ve done art and music
since I was a small kid living in a small village were I
dreamed everyday of Whitney Houston coming to
save me which she kind of did in her own way. I live
after my heart and follow energy flow and were it
pulls me and directs me, I talk to the spirits, god and
angels all the time . I´m also a mother to an amazing
12 year old boy.
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BERGLIND: I´m very much a street diva, I love
biking the streets at night, drawing on the walls and
nature and being bit like a kid, but then I also love
super fine things, good food and beautiful clothes
and beautiful things that come from love. Like the
small GDR, porcelain plate I found in the trash in
Leipzig with a drawing of a small boy driving a tractor.
Gems like that. I´m very spontaneous and my
art explodes from me and I have no control over it.
If I would not make it I would die.
KALTBLUT: Let´s talk first about your music. Your
voice is soo unique and makes every track very
special. Since when you are doing music? And how
would you describe your sound?
BERGLIND: Thank you so much for your kind words.
I was always singing and really dreamed about being
some singing diva since I was a very small girl. As a
teenager I would stand on this bridge singing with
my headphones all night and the small village police
(which were very nice people ) would always check
on me, thinking I was suicidal or something but I
would never jump, I would just sing and sing and
cry and be a dramatic teenager in the wind. When I
moved to the Reykjavik city I went crazy, finally I felt
at home and I made all these amazing friends that
were musicians and artists and I started to do a lot
of poetry reading. I would read poems before concerts
of bands and so on, the readings were often
like performances in crazy outfits. The bad taste ltd.
known as Ssmekkleysa in Iceland was doing a series
of 8 cd´s with young artists and bands, we were
teenagers then, and they asked me to take part
seeing I was part of the this vibrant music scene.
So I did my first cd, it was a mix of poems with music
and me singing. I was so shy that the studio guy had
to leave the studio when I would sing, seriously he
had to stand outside the house.