About the participants - Friday 27 January

About the participants – Friday 27 January

TRINE RYTTER ANDERSEN / Kurator & kritiker (in Danish)

Trine Rytter Andersen is a visual artist and independent curator and fine arts consultant with a background as a practitioner of contemporary fine art. Her artistic practice had its takeoff in modern sculpture and from there it ventured in to conceptual- and performance art: first during her studies at the department for sculpture and space at The Jutland Academy of Fine Arts in Aarhus; since through the collaboration with colleagues Tina S. Lynge and Grethe Aagaard in the context of the artists group artillery.

Always from an aesthetic point of view Andersen’s practice focuses on how to be human in an multifaceted world of information and disconnection. She also focusses on how we as humans are either elevated or suppressed by social hierarchies and political structures. In her work she addresses different aspects of power, dislocation and alienation in search of liberating alternative positions. She works in various medias as art writing, photography, objects, installation and drawing or painting on paper, with different tools and mediums. As a curator, Andersen investigates positions that establish and emphasize a play between art and politics. Over the years, Trine Rytter Andersen has written large numbers of texts on art and artists for different Danish daily newspapers, catalogues, and books, currently for kunsten.nu.

Talk

Et oplæg om, hvordan fordybelsen og intimiteten med jorden og landskabet vækker selve naturrelationen til live, og hvordan den levendegjorte relation i sig selv bliver en drivkraft, der afstedkommer aktivisme i den nuværende klimakatastrofiske tid. Om kill-joyen og forudsætningerne for at tage den på sig. Og om, hvordan foragten for naturen er en direkte forlængelse af foragten for det nærende og kvindelige i patriarkatet, og hvorfor fremtiden nødvendigvis må være antipatriarkalsk og feministisk.

www.trinerytterandersen.dk

MARIA KJÆR THEMSEN / Kunstredaktør Information, forfatter (in Danish)

Maria Kjær Themsen er kunstredaktør ved Dagbladet Information, forfatter og freelance-kurator. Hun har tidligere kurateret større udstillinger internationalt, og herhjemme har hun senest kurateret den prisvindende udstilling Soil.Sickness.Society på Rønnebæksholm ved Næstved. En udstilling om ubalancer i både muld, mennesker og samfund.

Maria Kjær Themsen er desuden forfatter til den anmelderroste bog Berørt – om dansk kunst i det nye årtusinde (2020) og er medlem af Statens Kunstfonds Legatudvalg for Billedkunst i perioden 2020-2023.

Oplæg
Maria Kjær Themsen vil tale om sit kuratoriske arbejde og relationen mellem ubalancer i mulden/sindet/systemet, hvilket lå til grund for det prisvindende projekt Soil.Sickness.Society, som hun har udviklet og kurateret. Desuden vil hun tale om bæredygtig kuratering ift. et projekt på Samsø med titlen Jeg står op med jordens mylder.

PRACTICE

SESSION 1 / 11.30-13.00

TORA BALSLEV

Tora Balslev er performance- og scenekunstner med basis i dans og bevægelse. Hun er kunstnerisk leder af kompagniet Daily Fiction og optaget af relationen med det andet-end-menneskelige. Hun arbejder koreografisk og meditativt med at skabe oplevelser af at træde i forbindelse med sine omgivelser. Et arbejde med eksistens og perspektiv drevet af behov for en ny ansvarlighed over for det, vi bebor.

Workshop: Dancing Matter
Tora deler et uddrag af værket City Matters, en kunstnerisk vandring i byens natur. Som deltager får du en chance for at komme i nærkontakt med byens stof. Asfalt, sten og beton. En undersøgelse af byens geologiske krop og koreografi over tid. En ekspedition i selskab med det andet-end-menneskelige. Et blik og et øre på hvordan vi mennesker er viklet ind i en større organisme. City Matters er skabt i samarbejde med lydkunstner Maiken Vibe Bauer.
– outdoor / in Danish

KATRINE FABER

Katrine Faber is a singer, actress, voice performer, theatre director, composer and psychotherapist

from Denmark. She is artistic director of Teater Viva, expanding the perception of theatre into
an artistic space, where we can meet ourselves, each other, and our living environment in an extended resonance. Since 2015 with Singing Our Place: a Nordic cross art project about humans, our living surroundings and our common future. Singing Our Place has created performances, concerts, workshops, talks, sound installations and festivals in Denmark, England, Iceland, Finland, Sweden, and Greenland. www.teaterviva.dk

Workshop: Singing Our Place

In this Singing Our Place workshop, we work with our bodies and voices in a meeting with voices from our living environment -what we usually call nature, but which often indicates something outside of ourselves. Here we challenge this notion of separation between human and our surroundings. In the workshop, we examine our bodies as landscapes full of sound and life. We examine the landscape we are in as a body full of sound and life. We listen to the Earth as a living body full of vibrating sounds and life. We explore how, through focused and open-minded work, we can express and move with the human voice into the non-human. We dissolve worn-out languages, step into the wordless, and create new languages between the human and the non-human. You do not have to be good.
– partly outdoor / in Danish

GEORG JAGUNOV

“The wanderer: As a child I played a game I called “Indians” or “Scouts”. I would slowly move through the forest. Alone, alert and silent. Searching for traces. Traces of the unknown and of the unseen. In a way much of my art now is the same game, taken to a different level.”

Georg’s artistic practice is inherently multidisciplinary and collaborative. He works within a cross-section of installation and digital arts, performance and storytelling, landscape design on micro and macro scale. His projects are closely connected to the natural environment, with focus on geology, biology, ancient landscapes, prehistory and mythology.

Workshop: Timefulness

Come and join for a trip in time and space. The post-industrial garden is being turned into a zone where anything can be found: 80 million years old flint formations, traces of the post-glacial landscapes, stone age artefacts and ancient alien beings. With a map in your hand, you will go on a hunt. Searching for the traces of the unknown and the unseen. Timeless artefacts, stories and scapes are just under your feet…
– partly outdoor / in English

JANUS KODAL

Janus Kodal er digter, født 1968. Han har gået på Forfatterskolen og udgivet en lang række bøger, senest den konkretlyriske samling FORK på forlaget Space Poetry, december 2022 (omtalt i https://www.dr.dk/drtv/se/deadline_-aaret-i-boeger_357457).

Med udgangspunkt i ord, landskaber, steder og stemmer har Janus de senere år arbejdet med erindring og lydhørhed i en kollektiv proces, hvor materiale indsamlet under vandringer bearbejdes til et kollektivt udtryk.

Workshop: SITU VOCE – stedernes stemmer
I workshoppen skal vi ud på en lille vandretur – en ”walkshop” – i området omkring Teaterøen med vores mobiltelefoner. På udvalgte hjørner standser vi, og jeg tilbyder en ramme for en sansning eller en tanke, som deltagerne ”samler” og sender tilbage til mig som tekst eller lydbid på mobiltelefonen. Efterfølgende samler jeg bidderne til et kollektivt værk inspireret af stedernes stemmer – Situ Voce.
– outdoor / bring your cell phone / in Danish (session shared with Steinunn Knúts-Önnúdottir)

BETTINA LAMM

Bettina Lamm is an associate professor at the division of Landscape Architecture and Planning, University of Copenhagen. Her research addresses the interaction between the lived life and our surrounding landscapes. She studies in practice and theory how temporary interventions and art strategies can contribute to a reprogramming of the interim landscape by introducing new site readings and experiences. Through a practice-led research approach, she explores how our environment can facilitate our human experience of embodied life (on earth) and connect us to places and to each other through collective place making practices.

Workshop: Sensing and mapping landscapes

We will explore the landscapes of Refshaleøen individually through different sensing and performative techniques. As living breathing seismographs, we will engage in an embodied dialogue with the landscape capturing its essence. We will then gather and transform our findings into visual maps and graphic notations.
– outdoor / in Danish

STEINUNN KNÚTS ÖNNUDÓTTIR

Steinunn Knúts Önnudóttir is a performance maker working with sustainable, relation specific and participatory encounters. She has worked as a director, writer, dramaturg and a performer in Iceland, UK, USA, Scandinavia and beyond, currently based in Malmö. Steinunn was a dramaturg at the City Theater in Reykjavik, a lecturer and a dean at the Department of Performing Arts in IUA Reykavík, and artistic leader of Webtheater Room 408 and The Professional Amateurs. Steinunn is a PhD research fellow at Theater Academy of Malmö, University of Lund. She is a mother of three, a potter, theologian and practices forest bathing. Her current research project is called How Little is Enough? Sustainable Methods of Performance for Transformative Encounters.

Workshop: How little is enough?

In this short introductory workshop, Steinunn will show a video essay about her work, Eyja, a relation specific, participatory performance in Hrísey, an island North of Iceland. The work is a part of her artistic research that explores sustainable methods of performance through transformative encounters. After the introduction, the participants will be invited to delve into the artistic practice through a performative encounter with a fellow participant in an organic and porous setting. Together we will be unpacking the question “How Little is Enough?” both in relation to personal and artistic production and consumption.
– indoor / in Danish & English (SESSION SHARED WITH JANUS KODAL)

SØREN LOSE & THOMAS SEEST

Søren Lose er billedkunstner uddannet fra bl.a. Det Kgl. Danske Kunstakademi (1998-2003) med baggrund i en researchbaseret/konceptuel praksis. Mediemæssigt har han arbejdet primært med foto og video over installatoriske og skulpturelle projekter i institionel kontekst til de seneste år også at arbejde med natur- og genbrugsmaterialer i det offentlige rum.

Thomas Seest arbejder hovedsageligt med foto og video, ofte med et performativt udtryk. Som overordnet tema undersøger han relationen mellem den indre og den ydre verden. Det være sig kropsligt, metafysisk, seksuelt, socialt og tidsligt.

Sammen er de tilknyttet Guldborgsund Kommune som huskunstnere.

Workshop
We transform into plant beings and interact with nature in a practical and metaphysical plant workshop in the local wasteland around Refshaleøen.
– outdoor / in Danish

SESSION 2 / 14.00-15.30

TORA BALSLEV

GRY WORRE HALLBERG / SISTERS HOPE

Gry Worre Hallberg, performance artist and PhD, is the co-founder and artistic director of the award-winning performance group and movement Sisters Hope. Recently published her PhD Sensuous Society – Carving the path towards a sustainable future through aesthetic inhabitation stimulating ecologic connectedness, introducing ‘inhabitation’ as new artistic paradigm. Do also see her two TEDx talks; Sensuous Society (2013, TEDxCPH) and Sensuous Learning (2015, TEDxUppsalaUniversity). Appointed IETM Global Connector. sistershope.dk

Workshop: Inner landscapes – The Poetic Self

The facilitation of a Poetic Self exercise with the participants as an exploration of the inner landscapes. This leads to a reflection of the connection between outer and inner landscapes and how such a connection, practice and inhabitation can support a transition towards a more sustainable future.
– inside, perhaps partly outdoor / in English

HELLO!EARTH

hello!earth insists that art is a place for big and fragile visions. A laboratory space, where new thoughts and ideas can become reality, and where we together create the world instead of consuming it. The base of the work is an inquiry into consciousness and an exploration of the myth of reality. With the audience as the co-creating and central element, the works attempt to unfold the potential of relations between people and place and make interconnectedness and diversity tangible. The works are always spaces for an audience to experience, sense and do, and as a collective force shape a response to the pressing ecological and political situation and inspire change towards regenerative practices and visions.

Workshop: The sensing body as the activist
How would big politics look like if it was shaped by the sensing body? How to offer conditions, where the body is invited to inhabit complex and paradoxical questions and seemingly abstract topics such as economy, environmental or social issues? How can the body be catalyst for producing thought and become a transformative resource, a form of activism? Inspired by their work “THE NIGHT – visioning a post-capitalist society while we sleep”, Vera Maeder and Jacob Langaa Sennek invite into a short joint laboratory, relating to this aspect of their work. Followed by examples from previous works and open dialog.
– indoor + 5 min. outdoor / in English

JETTE HYE JIN MORTENSEN & SIGNE VAD

Jette Hye Jin Mortensen is an artist, writer, activist and sustainability advocate with a background in theatre, film and music. MFA graduate from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2010, receiver of the 3-year work stipend from the Danish Arts Foundation in 2015 and certified PDC Permaculture Designer in 2018.  Born 1980 in South Korea and grew up in Denmark as an adoptee. Currently she is active in the interdisciplinary collective Art+Science+Permaculture and a member of the Danish Arts Council.

Visual artist and climate activist Signe Vad explores political, existential and philosophical issues; where-from her artworks about community and self, nature, co-existence and political conditions grow. Her art practice is multidisciplinary and includes photography, video art, installations, internet, activistic and socially engaging art projects and performance. Beside her individual artistic practice and active work within the artist-run sector, she is part of the artist collaboration the Syndicate of Creatures (www.tsoc.zone).

Workshop

This workshop is a collaboration between perma-culturist and visual artist Jette Hye Jin Mortensen and climate-activist and visual artist Signe Vad. Jette Hye Jin Mortensen will introduce some interactive life design tools for a more sustainable livelihood where you will be working together in pairs and as a group. You will as well get an introduction to Permaculture ethics and principles and how to translate them to cultural work.

Signe will invite you into an eco-systemic freedom fight, presenting her poetic sense-based resistance movement called Death to the Death Star. Here, the gentle body is connecting to other species as embedded in the ecosystem. Bringing to the surface internal/external dialog, questioning and reflecting on agency, courage and when the decisive moment to act arises.
– indoor / in Danish

STINA STRANGE THUE

Stina Strange Thue (f. 1987) er kunstnerisk leder, dansekunstner og skribent. Hendes praksis er funderet i en fysisk-poetisk metode, der arbejder med kroppens og tekstens narrative evner til i samspil at formidle en kritisk tilgang til vores væren i verden.

Stina Strange Thue er skribent på bastard.blog og er aktuelt involveret i et kunstnerisk forskningsprojekt på KADK i samarbejde med arkitekt Rasmus Strange Thue samt performanceprojektet Kroppens Umulige Sprog med Karin Hald og Filip Vest.

Workshop: She Who Belongs

A workshop about inviting yourself, other human beings, nature and objects in our surroundings and state of mind into a sense of belonging. By investigating and observing a specific site, we will create a shared embodied piece of poetry and give it back to the landscape. Combining our senses with the creation of text and using our own bodies to write the text “back” into the site, we share a sensuous experience having the possibility of creating a sense of belonging between “us” all.
– outdoor / in Danish

REFLECTIONS

IBEN FROM / Direktør KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad

Iben From (f. 1965) er cand.mag. i kunst- og religionshistorie fra Kbh. Universitet (1997) og Master of Museologi, Aarhus Universitet (2007). Direktør (siden 1998) for og udvikler af KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad omfattende direkte samarbejde med en lang række billedkunstnere fra ind- og udland, tilrettelæggelse af flere end 250 større og mindre kunstudstillinger af fortrinsvis samtidens kunst, men også med afstikkere til nyere tids kunsthistorie, begge dele med tilhørende publikationer. Tillige hovedansvar for formidling og audience development samt ledelse og økonomi.

SOLVEIG GADE / Ass. Prof. Københavns Universitet

Solveig Gade is an Associate Professor in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Research areas include new dramaturgical paradigms in contemporary theatre and performance, the relation between art and politics, war and aesthetics, performance and archives, and contemporary performance and climate crisis. Solveig is also a dramaturge, and before joining UCPH as an associate professor she was a dramaturge at the Royal Danish Theatre (2008-14), post doc at UCPH (2014-16), Associate Professor at the Department of Dramaturgy at Aarhus University (2016-19), and from 2019-2020 she was a professor at The Danish National School for Performing Arts.

LARS GRAMBYE / Direktør Skovhuset

Lars Grambye, direktør for Skovhuset Kunst & Natur. Tidligere kurator ved Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst samt leder af Center for Dansk Billedkunst, Malmö Konsthall, Kunsthallen Brandts og Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Norge.

STEFFEN KREJBERG KNUDSEN / Bloom

ANNA KROGH / Direktør Sorø Kunstmuseum

Anna Krogh er direktør for Sorø Kunstmuseum. Hun er magister i kunsthistorie og har tillige en MA fra State University of New York. Hun har tidligere været direktør for Kunst på arbejde og kurator på bl.a. Kunsthallen Brandts og ARoS. Hun har udgivet og redigeret en lang række artikler og bøger og arbejder også som foredragsholder. Endelig har hun siddet i Statens Kunstråds Billedkunstudvalg og bidraget som konsulent i forskellige kunstneriske udvalg i hhv. Odense og København.

MODERATOR: RIE HAMMER / Chefredaktør Iscene

Rie Hammer er chefredaktør på ISCENE.dk og tidligere ansvarshavende redaktør på teatermagasinet Teater1. 2001-2006 var hun anmelder og skribent på gratisavisen Urban og har sideløbende skrevet stykker for børn og unge. Rie Hammer er formand for Foreningen Danske Teaterjournalister, formand for Forenede Kritikere samt juryformand for Årets Reumert.

PERSPECTIVES

JULIE REISS / Art Historian

Julie Reiss is an art historian with a focus on contemporary art that addresses the climate crisis. She has spoken on and organized panels related to art and climate change, and is the editor of Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene (2019). In 2019 she organized the symposium “The Role of Art in the Environmental Crisis” held at Christie’s Education. A pioneering scholar in the field of Installation art, she is also the author of From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art (1999), in addition to numerous articles and reviews. She was previously director of Modern and Contemporary Art and the Market, an accredited MA program at Christie’s Education. Reiss teaches courses on Art and Sustainability at Columbia University, and recently taught a masterclass on Art and the Anthropocene at MUSE Science Museum in Trento, Italy. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the CUNY Graduate Center.

https://juliereiss.com

MARK CHEETHAM / Prof., University of Toronto (CA)

Mark Cheetham’s research centres on artwriting and visual culture from the mid 18th century to the present in Britain, Europe, the USA and Canada. He has written books and articles on the history, theory, and current practice of abstract art, on art historical methodology, on ecological art, and on recent art in Canada and internationally.

His book Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature since the ‘60s was published in 2018. Eco art is a vibrant subset of contemporary art that addresses the widespread public concern with rapid climate change and related environmental issues. In the book, Cheetham systematically examines connections and divergences between contemporary eco art, land art of the 1960s and 1970s, and the historical genre of landscape painting.

He curated the exhibition Struck by Likening: The Power & Discontents of Artworld Analogies at the McMaster University Museum of Art in 2017. His exhibition Ecologies of Landscape (2018–19) explored the ongoing potency of landscape presentation in contemporary art.

www.arthistory.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/mark-cheetham

KIRSTEN SWENSON / Associate Prof., University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Kirsten Swenson’s research interests include urban histories of minimal and conceptual art, artist-designed landscapes, gender politics, and public art. Swenson is currently writing a book on artist-designed landscapes and urban development, addressing the intersection of Land art and public art through the work of Nancy Holt, Agnes Denes, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and others. Over 2018-2020, she was leading “Local Ecologies,” a multimodal teaching, research, and exhibition initiative.

Together with Emily Eliza Scott, she is co-editor and author of Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics, asking the questions: In what ways is land formed over the course of geological time, also contemporary and formed by the conditions of the present? How might art contribute to the expansion of spatial and environmental justice? One of the first comprehensive treatments of land use in contemporary art, Critical Landscapes surveys the stakes and concerns of recent land-based practices, outlining the art historical contexts, methodological strategies, and geopolitical phenomena.

www.uml.edu/FAHSS/Art/Faculty/Swenson-Kirsten.aspx

Fotos: Lars Bay / Metropolis / Diana Lindhardt / Thomas G. Bagge / Janus Kodal / Bettina Lamm / Jette Hye Jin Mortensen / Signe Vad / Steinunn Knúts Önnudóttir / Søren Lose & Thomas Seest / Morten Arnfred