LINHE LE – Poetic Tools

TIME & PLACE See the full program for Performing Landscapes here
WHAT Interactive workshop

Connection with the artworks of the species
Every day or every night, bats, birch trees, crows, grass, and many other species work without us noticing. Their tireless activity is invaluable for sustaining and developing life on Earth. We investigate the invisible processes of these species, and with tools in hand, we gain access to these unseen workers.

“With a shovel we can dig into the soil, with a bucket we can collect water, with a knife we can cut into the bark of trees, with a hammer we can break through, with a measuring stick we can examine the relationships between species and our positions within the larger, worldly, and planetary ecosystems.”

The work is site-specific and based on the species found in the area. We use human-made tools to connect with the invisible life forms of the place and move closer to the artistic works of other species – such as the delicate webs of spiders, the symbols left by beetle larvae on tree bark, or the droppings of bats that fertilize the soil.

ABOUT LINH LE
Linh Le is a performance artist and brown long-eared bat ambassador. She works in the intersection of performance art, nature, politics, community. She is of a new generation of artists who with their own bodies are exploring different ways of being human / species in a world of capitalism and its polycrisis (climate, biodiversity, imperialist wars). Linh Le is educated in Aesthetics and Culture from Aarhus University and Performance Design & Planning from Roskilde University. She is a founding member of the performance climate activist group Becoming Species which has made several performative actions in public space to amplify nature’s diverse voices. She is also board member of the association Species Ambassadors which supports species ambassadors in sharing knowledge and protecting the rights of species. https://linhle.dk/

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Duration: 45 minutes
Participants:
Age: 15+
Language: Danish & English