PETER VADIM – Daydream Dialogues

TIME & PLACE See the full program for Performing Landscapes here
WHAT Performance / walk / participatory

A Dialogue with the Landscape of Dreams
We meet in a landscape where we are guided by a poetic, dancing shadow figure – a representative of the overlooked, the hidden, the excluded, yet still part of the place. Through daydreaming exercises, we open our senses and connect with the landscape. Daydreams exist between the rational and the irrational, between reality and fiction. They build a bridge between our inner world and what we experience around us. Daydream Dialogues explores different forms of daydreaming: actively imagining, letting thoughts drift, immersing oneself in another existence – a being, a community, a landscape.

“Daydreams lead the dreamer out of the immediate world into a world that bears the mark of eternity.”
– Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and theorist of science

This poetic practice is driven by love and care for the overlooked and the outcast. We sense the landscape, create poetic, visual, and physical encounters with it, and arrive at a state between day and dream. A collective poetic exploration of the visible and invisible layers of a place opens a multifaceted, sensory understanding of the nature of the landscape.

ABOUT PETER VADIM
Peter Vadim explores how daydreams connect the body, other forms, and landscapes. Vadim identifies their gender identity as fluid and draws inspiration from the beauty of the overlooked and marginalized, the abject. Vadim is a dancer and choreographer trained at the Danish National School of Performing Arts. They are also a trained landscape architect and are engaged in arts and architecture education, research, and cultural and artistic development on Bornholm.
https://petervadim.dk/

PRACTICAL INFO
Duration: 75 min
Participants
Age: 12+
Language: Danish & English

CREDITS
Choreography & performance: Peter Vadim in collaboration
Production: Metropolis – Performing Landscapes & BIRCA – Bækkelund International Residency Center for Artists
Photos: Verner Kjærsgaard, Bornholm 2023