Performing Landscapes Guldborgsund
DATE 28-29 August
PLACE The harbour in Nykøbing F. near Markedshallen – SEE MAP
FREE
Programme
Experience the mini-festival Performing Landscapes, where five artist groups present their works at Markedshallen in Nykøbing Falster.
The works are in close dialogue with the ongoing transformation of Nykøbing F. Harbour, which in the coming years will be redeveloped into a new urban district with green public spaces, a town hall, the cultural centre Bastebro, housing and more.
The artists invite us into a shared exploration of the harbour, where nature, on its own terms, becomes an active co-creator. The harbour holds its own stories, challenges and possibilities, which the artists explore together with the audience.
FRIDAY 28 AUGUST – for schools
School performances
SATURDAY 29 AUGUST – open for all
11-15.30: Five performances with MØR Collective – Beyond Beyond
13: Julie Schmidt Andreasen – Echoes in the Light
14: Astrid Randrup – MurStøv
15: Thomas Seest – Vild Havn Fælled
16: Marika Seidler – VAH HAV
MØR COLLECTIVE – Beyond Beyond
Beyond Beyond is a meditative and sensory installation – a straw-covered mini-cathedral that envelops you and invites you to let go of control.
Here, you can put your to-do lists and the pace of everyday life aside, and surrender to the unknown.
Visual artist Astrid Randrup works towards a renewed understanding of the materials that make up our world. She gives bricks a central role in a performative ritual, where you are invited to listen like a brick – and to a brick. You are invited to feel it, draw with it, and follow the traces it leaves as it transforms.
THOMAS SEEST – Vild Havne Fælled
Vild Havne Fælled relocates parts of Vild Park to the harbour with the intention of creating a new symbiotic relationship between art and nature. Here, art is meant to function as a driver for rewilding – slipping into cracks and taking root.
MARIKA SEIDLER – VAH HAV
What should we preserve, and what should we surrender to the sea? Marika Seidler invites us to dive into the water within us, the water around us, and the water between us, in an exploration of water’s movements, ecosystems, mythologies and legends.
JULIE SCHMIDT ANDREASEN – Echoes in the Light
A performance installation emerging from wishes and gratitude. We place ourselves by the water, with everything that is here. How does the outer landscape shape our inner landscape? What does the landscape do to what we wish for, and to what we value?
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROJECT
Alongside the open programme, a longer artist-in-residence programme is organised for selected school classes in Guldborgsund Municipality, supported by the Danish Arts Foundation. The project begins on 28 August and concludes with presentations at Kulturnatten on 2 October.
With the harbour as its framework, the project focuses on the following themes:
MATERIAL
Astrid Randrup’s project Rust in Circulation explores rust and iron from the old harbour as a starting point for understanding transformation as circulation rather than destruction. Through sensory exploration, the production of rust powder, and working with rust as pigment, students create their own works. Along the way, the material’s transformation is linked to an understanding that we ourselves are in motion together with our surroundings. Target group: 5th grade and up.
THE SEA
Marika Seidler’s project VAH HAV asks: “What should we preserve, and what should we surrender to the sea?” She invites students into performative creation, exploring the water within us, around us and between us, engaging with water’s movements, ecosystems, mythologies and legends. Target group: 5th grade and up.
COMMON GROUND
In Vild Havn Fælled, Thomas Seest works with the questions: Where are plants, insects and animals when we develop a former industrial harbour, and how can nature (and young people) find space to unfold together in the harbour city of the future? Participants co-create a small piece of land – a miniature commons where humans and plants can form community and understanding. Target group: 5th grade and up.
THE BODY
Julie Schmidt Andreasen explores through body and movement what we value and wish for in the harbour’s development. The work involves choreography, reflection, text writing and improvisation, focusing on how we are part of a larger whole, and how that interconnectedness matters. Target group: 5th–6th grade.
Performing Landscapes Guldborgsund is organised by Metropolis – Københavns Internationale Teater in collaboration with and with support from Guldborgsund Kommune and Statens Kunstfond.
Photo: Marine Gastineau (1: Beyond Beyond / 2: Echoes in the Light), Astrid Randrup