OLEG KOEFOED – Conversation With Land and Water

TIME & PLACE See the full program for Performing Landscapes here
WHAT Staged conversation

Dialogue as a work of art
In Conversation with Land and Water, the content is the memories participants carry with them about our relationship to the land, the water, and the place. The format consists of a short walk, shared reflection, and a conversation held under the open sky in landscapes that are striking enough to actively participate in the dialogue. We draw upon a centuries-old tradition of remembering, writing, and reading aloud when addressing difficult questions. Conversation with Land and Water combines movement, memory, writing, and storytelling into an intimate experience of our presence on the planet.

Conversation with Land and Water was developed in collaboration between Metropolis and the Dutch theatre group Building Conversations. In the dialogical art movement that emerged in the 1970s, conversation itself is presented as a work of art. Drawing on this politically engaged art practice, Building Conversation created performances inspired by existing conversation practices from around the world; from Indigenous communities in New Zealand and Canada to the Occupy movement, Facebook, and the root systems of trees. 

ABOUT OLEG KOEFOED
OLEG KOEFOED, action-philosopher, has spent a couple of decades working with cultural, philosophical, aesthetic, and artistic methods to actualize, understand, and collaborate on sustainable and regenerative existence. The purpose of Koefoed’s practice is to create a stronger foundation for understanding how we, as a species, engage in relationships with the ecologies that continuously shape us and to which we contribute in return. Since 2020, his work has primarily focused on immersive ways of amplifying human vulnerability to establish the existential foundation for a regenerative paradigm.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Duration: 90 minutes
Age: 15+
Participants: 5-15
Language: Danish or English