Arna Beth
Contact & Links
arnabeths@gmail.com
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Selected Works



    Arna Beth (b. 1997) is an Icelandic / American multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in London. Working with the assemblage of digital media, speculative futures, and cultural critique of the postmodern. Her practice spans 3D fabrication such as sculpture and animation, performance, sound, and recombinant material processes. 

    Through frameworks of critical theory kin to xenofeminism, dromology and necropolitics, Arna constructs immersive, non-linear narratives, attempting to destabilize a dromocratic present.

    Self-composed sound, fabrication, and embodied performance mark an evolution toward more immersive, bodydriven work. Collaborations with curators and technologists continue to refine her spatial and political praxis, weaponizing aesthetics against the systems they mirror.

    She has performed and exhibited at:
    Boundary Condition at St. Garlickhythe Church (LDN) 2025.
    Manifest: IO at Goldsmiths (LDN) 2025.
    Club Are (LDN) 2023, 2025.
    Metamorphika (LDN) 2024.
    SÍM Residency + UKAI Projects at Korpúlfsstaðir (ICE) 2024
    Lewisham Art House (LDN) 2023
    Iklectik Art Lab (LDN) 2023
    Hafnarborg – the Hafnarfjördur Centre of Culture and Fine Art (ICE) 2023.
    X3 Amsterdam (NL) 2022.
    Akademie der Künste in Berlin (DE) 2022
    Festival of Lights (ICE) 2020
    Decoratelier in Brussels (BE) 2019
    Lunga Festival (ICE) 2019
    Sónar Reykjavík (ICE) 2018


    Lava Ritual

    Directed by Rike Scheffler, co-directed by Arna Beth



                
    In the surround sound and video work "Lava. Ritual", poems from a speculative future community resound as echoes to us in the present. As in the children's game of “telephone,” myths and cultural knowledge are transmitted and saved orally, across linguistic and species boundaries, from one living body to another through words, verses, and acoustic signals.