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Lend your voice to the plants \u2013 collective singing<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Planting Songs is a series of songs that bring local plants to life – their qualities, characteristics, and hidden abilities. Performance artist Madeleine Kate McGowan has invited a number of composers to create songs that give voice to the plants and make them present through music, text, and shared singing.<\/p>\n

You are invited into a collective vocal play, where new communal songs and traditions can take root. At a time when we must reinvent the ways we are together, Planting Songs explores how singing can become a sensory and embodied way of learning, remembering, and connecting to the world.<\/p>\n

Each song carries knowledge about a specific local plant – its properties, lifeways, and relationships. When we sing the plants, this knowledge is stored in the body. In this way, the song becomes both a transmission, a living archive, and a practice of creating closeness between humans and the more-than-human world.<\/p>\n

Planting Songs points toward a new ecological song tradition, where voice, memory, and community are woven together. A poetic and participatory work that explores how art can strengthen our cultural and ecological resilience by teaching us to remember, sense, and relate to the plants we live among.<\/p>\n

ABOUT MADELEINE KATE MCGOWAN<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Madeleine Kate McGowan is a Irish\/Danish artist and director working across performance, sound, text, ecology, and social choreography. Her practice explores how art can function as resistance, a sensory space, and a site for collective processing in times marked by ecological crisis, loss, and collapse.<\/p>\n

Through works such as\u00a0Solastalgia<\/em>, she creates poetic and speculative formats in which difficult emotions can take shape, and where art opens a space for imagining other ways of living, grieving, and coexisting.<\/p>\n

She often works collaboratively across art, biology, and local communities, developing site-responsive and participatory works that connect the more-than-human world with embodied experience, memory, and ecological imagination.<\/p>\n

\"Madeleine<\/h5>\n
PRACTICAL INFO<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Duration: 60 min.
\nParticipants: 30
\nAge: All
\nLanguage: Danish & English<\/p>\n

The piece is rooted in vocal work. Everyone is welcome, and every voice can participate. All it takes is a willingness to dive in.<\/p>\n

Photo: Christian Friedl\u00e4nder<\/p>\n

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CREDITS<\/strong><\/h5>\n

First ‘Planting Song’ is about Nettles and composed by Polish composer and vocal-performer: Paulina K\u00fchling Miu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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