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Jana Winderen (NO)
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Maria Viftrup (DK)
Maria Viftrup is working in the messy intersections of participatory art and experimental design.
She works with care towards the tiny, the invaluable, the dusty and the sensous.
Based in Børkop, Denmark she is crafting radical curiousity through engaging experiences and material storytelling. Her colourful universe initiates questions and conversations about human relations to more-than-human worlds, ecology, resources, value and waste. Her work takes form as material-driven explorations of the implications of contemporary production and consumption systems.She has been working in an ongoing collaboration with Jordens Hus to make the interdisciplinary projekt JORDSANS - a training facility for practising a sense of soil.
Maria's artistic practice consists of participatory installations, interdisciplinary workshops, performance, assemblage, material explorations and drawing.
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Recover Laboratory (FI)
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Lina Lapelytė (LT)
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Linda Boļšakova (LV)
Linda Boļšakova work is interdisciplinary focusing mainly on installation and performance. Through these mediums, she explores the interconnectedness and fragility of the borders between humans, surrounding environments, especially plant life, and recently also the geologic and deep time beings. Previously, she has collaborated with composers, botanists, mineralogists, breakdancers, various orchid species, biotope experts, beatboxers and web developers. She works across divides between natural & artificial, past, present & future. My long-term research circles around what I call thermodynamic reincarnation. This concept, taken from both physics and spiritual worldviews aims to understand our deep energy bonds. We transform into one another and are already multiplicities, hybrids and chimeras, where the past and future co-inhabit our present. Nothing is created nor disappears, and nothing exists on its own. The capitalist illusion of self-sufficiency is refracted into Baradian intra-action and deep interconnectedness.
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Sonja Strange (DK)
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Reality Research Center (FI)
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Thomas Seest (DK)
Thomas Seest has been working with landscapes and natural materials. At Vild Park in the municipal Guldborgsund he has worked in collective formats and collaborations. He holds a PDC in permaculture and insists on regenerating nature and culture through his works - Art can make the sun rise and the earth quake.
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Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel (NO)
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Fern Orchestra (FI)
Fern Orchestra is an Art and Science Collective that has studied subjects such as photosynthesis, closed biosphere and plant neurology in their works. Works are characterized by the presence of living organisms other than humans.
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LAND BEFORE TIME (SE)
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Agnieszka Wolodzko (PL)
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Stina Nyberg (SE)
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Krista Burāne (LV)
Krista Burāne, armed with master’s degrees in philosophy (Univesity of Latvia) and audiovisual arts (Academy of Culture of Latvia), fosters a space for dialogue not just between humans but also between humans and other beings. As an advocate for documentary, participatory and site-specific theatrical formats, Krista passionately believes in the capacity of art not only to engage viewers intellectually and emotionally and involve them physically and actively. Through her work, she aims to cultivate empathy and foster a conscientious and compassionate attitude toward all living beings and the environment. Particularly in recent times, her creative endeavours have revolved around themes of biodiversity preservation and environmental advocacy, reflecting her commitment to reshaping the dynamics of human-nature relationships. Her recent performances, including “Nocturne” (2019), “2020 Steps” (2020), “..trees Have Stopped Talking Since Then” (2020), “The End of the World and Other Nonsense” (2021), and “All Birds Sing Beautifully” (2023), serve as profound mirrors to our anthropocentric lifestyle. These thought-provoking works serve as poignant reminders of the repercussions of humanity’s myopic relationship with nature, beckoning audiences to reassess their roles in preserving the ecosystem’s delicate balance.
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Šeiko (LT)
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IevaKrish (LT/LV)
Artist duo IevaKrish consists of internationally working dancers/choreographers and set designers Ieva Gaurilčikaitė-Sants (LT/LV) and Krišjānis Sants (LV). Their practice uses a hybrid of choreography and scenography to create implicitly immersive and tacit experiences. Communication plays a crucial role and is the content of their work which varies in a wide range of form and media – from direct guided experiences between artist and an individual audience member, to elaborate interactive events bringing together larger groups in spectacles and installations of polyphonic dance, choreographed sound and shared food. Their works have been presented in Latvia and abroad. In 2021 IevaKrish received Latvian Dance Award as Best Choreographers. Both run a performance art company TUVUMI that aims to create a shared art environment between Latvia and the Baltic as well as the Baltics and Europe. In recent years, IevaKrish has found new inspiration in the peripheral and rural areas of Latvia, and has sought to establish links with local cultural institutions to introduce contemporary dance to these communities, thereby expanding their touring network.
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Miradonna Sirka (FI)
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SU-EN Butoh Company (SE)
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Laura Stašāne (LV)
Laura Stasane is currently doing MA in Malmö Theatre Academy where she researches and creates work on haunted landscapes and the ways we feel our presence in nature. She is originally from Riga where she was part of the performing arts festival Homo Novus for many years, working often with choreographic, site-specific and community projects. Since 2020 she has been involved with the topic of domestic violence as artist and activist, writing, talking and making several performative works in collaboration with other artists, notably the documentary installation and digital platform “Physical Evidence Museum” and the book “No One Will Believe You”.
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Acting for Climate (EU)
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Julie Solberg (NO)
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Marika Hedemyr (SE)
Marika Hedemyr is a choreographer/artist who creates public art, choreography, and mixed reality experiences. She explores coexistence through the emotional and political relations between people and places. Her site-specific mixed reality walks combine documentary material, augmented reality-technology, and performative formats. Currently she develops a series of new mixed reality experiences that explore our coexistence with planet earth through the elements earth, water, fire, and air - as immersive experiences that open new perspectives on relations in the landscape.
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Rakkaudesta (On-Love) (FI)
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WUNDERLAND (DK)
Wunderland is an entrance to a world where conceptions open and multiple possibilities arise; where understanding is sensually kaleidoscopic. A place without known definitions. Wunderland creates experiences, performances and workshops. The performances are usually held in specific places and are immersive and participatory. They can be held indoors, in city streets, on the water, in tents, public spaces or in nature.
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Rune Fjord (DK)
Rune Fjord is captivated by the aesthetic, sensory language as a connection between people and nature. Working with art is a way to understand the world. Wonder in the accumulation of materials and objects from nature. Works that emerge in the gaps between contexts, systems, and perspectives on the world—between science, cultural history, and spiritual language. Immersion in the creative process, the scent, the sound, the silence, the feeling, the image, the story. The conversation beside the small child, with hands, body, and words closely connected.Connection between people, body, nature, light, and darkness. His practice involves material exploration in the field between object and time-based art, and open, experimental laboratory formats where the dynamics between collecting, processing, showcasing, and archiving is central.
Studio location where he holds exhibitions annually!
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Norwegian Landscape Theatre (NO)
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Skärgårdsteatern (FI/SE)
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Malin Arnell (SE/DE)
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Cecilie Solberg (NO)
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Other Spaces (FI)
Other Spaces is a Helsinki based Live Art collective founded in 2004. The group’s artistic work is based on collective physical exercises that allow us to get in touch with forms and ways of being and experiencing that are unfamiliar to humans, in other words, to visit "other spaces". Through the exercises we get familiar with e.g. plants, animals, mycelia, stones, cars, humanoids, particle level events and galaxy groups.
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Bára Sigfúsdóttir (IS/NO)
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Åsa Elzén (SE)
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Saulė Noreikaitė (LT)
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BEYOND DARKNESS (DK)
Beyond Darkness is a choreographic duo which creates higly immersive experiences through sensorial performances and ecological installations. They view their creations as ecosystems, where they invite for explorations of human and beyond-human perspectives, lives and stories.
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Oblivia (FI)
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Yohei Hamada (JP/NO)
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Elle Sofe Company (NO)
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Ingela Ihrman (SE)
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Nana Francisca Schottländer (DK)
Nana Francisca Schottländer: Works cross-aesthetically within choreography, performance and installation. Central to her work is the use of the body as a living tool for investigation and creation. Her work revolves around co-creative potentials in encounters with other-than-human entities and phenomena. In recent years, her focus has been on landscapes and material cycles that are shaped by human intervention.
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Sinna Virtanen (FI)
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Gülbeden Kulbay (SE)
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SECRET HOTEL (DK)
Secret Hotel creates performances that are both immediately sensory and stimulating for the intellect. The focus is to raise people’s attention to our relation to the natural world, or as it is called these years: the more-than-human. Secret Hotel at present have performances about (and with) ants, about bees and about the forest. Our work ranges from site-specific events and performances, to artistic as well as concrete hands-on work in the food gardens of “Space for Earth Wisdom” and Earthwise Residency.
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Linh Le (DK)
Linh Le is a performance artist and climate activist. She explores the sensuousness and philosophy of species, makes rituals for the diversity of life and builds interactive spaces for contemplation and action. As a child of freedom fighters who came to Denmark as boat refugees from Vietnam, and as a witness to their struggles in Danish society and her own experiences with racism, Linh Le is strongly called to free herself through dance and performance. Linh Le is educated in Aesthetics and Culture from Aarhus University and Performance Design & Planning from Roskilde University.
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Wauhaus (FI)
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Laterna (NO)
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Åsa Cederqvist (SE)
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SISTERS HOPE (DK)
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Studio Kalleinen (FI)
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Katarina Skår Lisa (NO)
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HELLO!EARTH (DK)
hello!earth is Jacob Langaa-Sennek, set designer and visual artist, and Vera Maeder, choreographer and performance artist. With hello!earth, the audience is at the center as co-creators of the artistic works. The audience experiences, senses, and acts in performances that explore our consciousness and the myth of reality. Through several years, hello!earth has worked on developing gently staged sequences that lead to a heightened awareness and consciousness in a search for new spiritual and sensory communities. With input from philosophers and experts, hello!earth creates an artistic laboratory with space for big and fragile visions. Here, new thoughts and ideas can become reality, and here, the world is created instead of being consumed.
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Piste Kollektiivi (FI)
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Harald Beharie (JAM/NO)
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BodyCartography Project (NO)
BodyCartography’s Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad have been collaborating since 1998. They engage with the vital materiality of bodies and minds and the more than human world to co-create live experiences that generate re-enchantment, relationship, and presence.
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Katrine Faber (DK)
Katrine Faber is a performance artist, voice artist, composer, stage director, video and sound artist and installation artist. She is the artistic director of Teater Viva in Denmark, which investigates and develops interdisciplinary spaces, where we can meet ourselves, each other and our living surroundings in an expanded resonance. She is educated as an actress at Istituto Di Arte Scenica in Italy and as a singer and voice teacher at The Roy Hart Center in France and at Nadine George`s Voice Studio International in England. In addition, she is an educated psychotherapist specializing in voice, body and mythology. Faber has done a year-long exploration of the human voice and of the voices of the more than human; song, sound, narrative and resonance as a way to connect with the world and ourselves. Since 2015 with Singing Our Place: an international cross-art project exploring the resonance between people, our living environment and our shared future.
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Maria Nurmela (FI)
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Sticky Productions (NO)
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Höyhentämö (FI)
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Helle Siljeholm (NO)
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Tora Balslev/ DAILY FICTION (DK)
Tora Balslev/Daily Fiction is a dancer and performance artist. Using the body as a tool, she practices strategies for presence. She explores relationships between human and more-than-human bodies in a movement-based work related to existence and perspective. Tora's works are created over time and are part of an ongoing dialogue with researchers, audiences, students, and various local and social groups.
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Sanna Josefiina Hirvonen (FI)
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Ingri Fiksdal (NO)
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Emma Fält (FI)
Emma Fält is a multidisciplinary artist working with drawing, installation, performing arts, and participatory practices. Their main interests are in live acts, contact and togetherness. Fält is inspired by the body, its boundaries, and possibilities to connect. Fält is exploring the trace we leave and seeks to expand and stretch the understanding of drawing and the ways to present it.
"For me, drawing is a multidisciplinary way of doing things. It is not directly related to visuality, but above all, it is corporeality. It creates a possibility to study the experience and thinking processes through the trace. My practice focuses on soundscapes, dialogue and the relation between traces and matter. I understand drawing as a way of being, a journey of finding one’s voice, an intimate, wordless dialogue, and a manifestation of presence. Doing it together can allow strangers to experience connection and share space. Drawing touches from a distance."
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Birgitte Lundtoft (DK)
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Jon Irigoyen (FI/ES)
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FRIKAR (NO)
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Ann Mai Lunde Røge (DK)
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Tuija Kokkonen (FI)
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LANDING (NO)
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Julie Schmidt Andreasen (DK)
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Kira O’Reilly (IE/FI)
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Ellen Kilsgaard (DK)
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Molly Haslund (DK)
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SARA GEBRAN (Denmark/Venezuela/Lebanon)
Sara Gebran is a choreographer, dancer, lecturer at Stockholm University of the Arts, author of 4 books, and urban planner. Her works are situated within the expanded field of choreography. At the moment she is combining the power of art’s aesthetic and environmental law, assisted by environmental lawyers from GARN. Her 4 years research-performance is called The Forests Imaginary Trial (2023-2026). In The Forests’ Trial 2024 with premier 07.10.24, she combines choreography and environmental law practice in a staging of a fictional trial. The audience is invited as judge, representing nature, to point out those responsible for two interconnected environmental disasters: the mercury pollution from the Cheminova factory in Denmark and the mercury pollution from illegal mining in the Amazon in Venezuela. Welcome coproducers for next years sequal: The Forests’ Trial: Repair 2025. www.saragebran.com & www.la-chicharra.com
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WUNSCMACHINE (DK)
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Ann Mirjam Vaikla (EE)
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Cecylia Malik (PL)
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Inger-Reidun Olsen (NO)
