DORTE BJERRE JENSEN & JOE DUMIT – Lichen Metropolis: Slow Partying at the End of the World
A performative investigation of our universal connectedness
Join a journey through time scales, where something emerges and something disappears – where spores, algae, fungi, and microbes become lichen. A slow community of magic shapes, soon covering 8% of the Earth’s surface.
Lichen Metropolis researches interconnection – how we are already partying with creatures, rocks, and metal. Our cosmos unfolds right here. And you are invited to lose yourself and step into this common creation process.
The invitation is for everybody who desires more slowness – and who are curious to discover: We are all lichen.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Dorte Bjerre Jensen’s work as an art worker and educator is anchored in an evolving artistic inquiry into multisensory relations of attention through movement manifested as live art installations, site-specific work, activism, lectures, classes, workshops and writing. Dorte Bjerre Jensen holds an M.F.A. from the Danish National School of Performing Arts and is currently a PhD student at University of California Davis, Performance Studies.
Dorte Bjerre Jensen’s latest work Excorcitium, performed at The Neue National Gallery Berlin 2025, is a participatory performative space that is moving across the etymologies of exorcism and exercise to address the destructive structures we are currently facing.The piece asks: How can we be together differently as an act of resistance?
Joe Dumit is an anthropologist of passions, performance, brains, games, bodies, drugs and AI. Chair of Performance Studies, and Professor of Science & Technology Studies, and Anthropology at University of California Davis, and Professor of Interdisciplinary Data Collaborations at Aarhus University.
He writes books including Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health, and articles on art and bully institutions, irrational computers, play and illness.
He conducts practice as research with neuroscientists, artists, and contact improvisers in Denmark, Germany, California, Croatia and France on multimedia installations for social learning, napping, and togetherness.
www.dumit.net
PRACTICAL INFO
Duration: 60 min.
Capacity: 30
Age: 10+
Language: English