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Sirkus (1999–2008) – Lost Tables
Sirkus at Klapparstígur 30, an old timber house painted turquoise and green with palm trees by the door, was run by Sigríður Guðlaugsdóttir, 'Sigga Boston', who took over the premises around 2000. The ground floor was a tiny room of steel tables and mismatched chairs, yet it became the daily meeting
Sirkus at Klapparstígur 30, an old timber house painted turquoise and green with palm trees by the door, was run by Sigríður Guðlaugsdóttir, 'Sigga Boston', who took over the premises around 2000. The ground floor was a tiny room of steel tables and mismatched chairs, yet it became the daily meeting place of Reykjavík's musicians, writers and artists – Björk played there regularly, and múm, Sigur Rós and Seabear were familiar faces; there was even a moustache competition. It peaked in 2003–2005, and when it closed in early 2008 to make way for redevelopment, more than 200 musicians, Sigur Rós and Páll Óskar among them, played a weekend-long marathon in protest. The demolition never happened, largely because of the financial crash; the house later became a computer shop and is now part of a hotel complex. Sirkus lived on as an installation at the Frieze Art Fair in London, as a bar in Tórshavn in the Faroe Islands from 2009, and from 2018 in Seyðisfjörður, where Sigga moved it with the original wall art.
Site later part of a hotel complex
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