NANA-FRANCISCA SCHOTTLÄNDER – This Is a Place Of Rest

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WHAT Performative Workshop

A Quiet Revolution
This Is a Place Of Rest is an artistic/activist workshop-performance that guides us through attempts to rest with a site’s or landscape’s past(s), present(s), and potential futures. We explore how we can sink into a place – its material layers and histories – and how rest can become a way to connect physically and mentally with these.

At Refshaleøen, we find ourselves in an old industrial area that has become a popular cultural gathering point and is now being developed as part of Copenhagen’s ongoing urban expansion. We rest on/with places shaped by the logics of production, consumption, and growth – and with our resting bodies, we open up to other ways of being on and with these sites. We hope to create a quiet revolution that unites people and places in restful resistance against the logics that exhaust them both.

ABOUT NANA-FRANCISCA SCHOTTLÄNDER
Nana Francisca Schottländer works across aesthetics within dance, performance, and installation. Central to her practice is the use of the body as a living instrument for exploration and creation—both in her own work and in participant-based formats. Her work revolves around intimacy and the co-creative potentials in encounters with more-than-human beings such as stones, soil, water, and larger geographical areas with their inherent phenomena and dynamics. nanafrancisca.com

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Duration: 90 minutes
Participants: Max. 20
Age: 16+
Language: English