CURRENT ACTIVITIES, NEWS AND UPDATES

KRISTIANSAND NORWAY

A night in the trees

An overnight experience inviting you to enter into geological and biological time and becoming part of natural systems and their intelligence. Spending the night softly hanging in a hammock between the old large trees at a small island in the south Norwegian archipelago.

In collaboration with Ravnedans

AT BRAGTØYA/KRISTIANSAND/NORWAY

June 3-8

EDINBOURGH
SCOTLAND

A night time sleep and action radio

In collaboration with Metropolis/ Copenhagen International Theatre.

EDINBURGH FRINGE

AUGUST 9-12 / 16-19 / 23-26

SHOWS AT 21h - 08h

CAPETOWN
SOUTH AFRICA

The overnight D.I.T. manual for nighttime assemblies

-on how to make big changes while sleeping
The idea for compiling the D.I.T. Overnight Manual derives from a quest that started in 2016 to explore the potential of collective sleeping and visioning. The D.I.T. Overnight Manual- or how to make big changes while sleeping- is a co-created do-it-together manual meant to inspire overnight activities and sleepovers that can envision the futures we want to inhabit.

The festival is the first in-person meeting towards assembling the manual. Each artist contributes with an overnight-score, relating to themes such as #postcapitalism, #assembly, #dreamingpractices,
#embodiment, #contemporaryrituals.

For more information, visit: http://www.ica.uct.ac.za/.../ICA%20Live%20Art%20Festival...
Artists:
Boaz Barkan-Denmark
Fernando Garcia Barros -Bolivia
Pia Bunglowala - India
Raya Zaida - Palestine
Shabari Rao - India
Vera Maeder- Denmark
Jacob Langaa-Sennek - Denmark
Juliana Restrepo - Colombia/Sweden

Supported by the Danish Arts Council for Performing Arts Statens Kunstfond

The Overnight Manual (Long distance version)

A co-created do-it-together manual to inspire overnight activities and sleepovers that can envision the futures we want to inhabit.

With artists form Bolivia, South Africa, Palestina, India and Denmark.

October- November 2021

LISELUND

MØN/DK

A night in the trees

An overnight experience inviting you to spend the night softly hanging in a hammock between the old large beech trees at Liselund Park. Entering into geological and biological time and becoming part of natural systems and their intelligence.

In collaboration with Metropolis/ Copenhagen International Theatre and

AT LISELUND PARK / Møn / DK

Opens July 30 and runs throughout August

COPENHAGEN

A night time sleep and action radio

In collaboration with Metropolis/ Copenhagen International Theatre. June 1 also presented at CPH STAGE

MAY 18 - JUNE 22

SHOWS EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT 21h - 09h

Contributing to “Transformationer på kanten af samfundet”

-an anthology edited by Christa Breum Amhøj and Morten Svalgaard Nielsen. Aktionsuniversitet

http://sdg-aktionsuniversitetet.dk/

A reflection on the h!e work "The night -visioning a post capitalist society while we sleep" (in process)

THE OVERNIGHT MANUAL

in Bolivia/ Martadero

Post-poned due to COVID

THE NIGHT -VISIONING A POST CAPITALIST SOCEITY WHILE WE SLEEP

at Sismograph Festival Olot,

Post-poned due to COVID

THE OVERNIGHT MANUAL

in South Africa ICA's Live Art Festival in Cape Town

Post-poned due to COVID

EDUCATORIET DAC

We are happy to be part of the external team for giving feedback on the design

for the new Educatorium space at The Danish Center for Architecture. www.dac.dk

TUESDAY NIGHT SLEEPING CLUB

THE MONTHLY COMMUNITY SLEEPING PRACTICE

Post-poned due to COVID

TEACHING

Part of teaching teams at Linneaus University, design+change, Växjö, Sweden. Sharing approaches and practices rooted in somatic knowledge, collaborative artistic practice and participatory works, in the field of design & social change amongst other.

GENÈVE

"Life in the Universe -a gathering for animals, people and minerals" on a meadow in Switzerland at La Bâtie Festival in Genève. https://www.batie.ch

SEPTEMBER 7 & 8

COPENHAGEN

"IN IT TOGETHER -the complex equation of empathy"

A brand new work opening at Close Encounters Festival at DEN FRIE / Dansehallerne in Copenhagen.

*Exercises for revolutionaries #3

Equipped with headphones together with 35 other people you are guided through a sequences of simple gestures and movements.The soundscape invites you to inhabit a number of significant life moments and fragments of personal experiences gathered from a diverse group of people from near and far.

A contemporary ritual dedicated to the experience of a collective body and the expansion of our radius of empathy.

The events at Den Fri is simultaneously broadcasted live via a local radio station, extending the collective experience and giving everyone within a radius of 8 km the opportunity to listen in -and to join the experience from their own livingroom.

http://denfrie.dk/en/exhibition/close-encounters-vol-2

*Exercises for revolutionaries is a series of hello!earth works, collectively exploring the sensing body as an activist.

APRIL 4 - 7

TEACHING

Design+Change Linneaus University Växjö, Sweden

https://lnu.se/en/programme/design-change/vaxjo-international-autumn/

Vera is teaching performative approaches to design at this awesome line dedicated to educate change makers, radical thinkers and colourful new beginnings by offering a wide range of practices, and courageous spaces for experimentation. Dedicated to using design for achieving changes towards futures of sustainability. For example in a course with Anna Wachtmeister and Modan from Amiralsstaden Malmoe as partners engaged in urban development and social sustainability .https://hallbarstad.se/amiralsstaden/kunskapsallianser-utvecklar-amiralsstaden/ https://deskgram.net/explore/tags/amiralsstaden

LABORATORY & DIALOGUE

"The gentle body as an activist" at Kunsthall Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/

Inspired by our latest work “THE NIGHT- visioning a post-capitalist society while we sleep” we invite into a short joint laboratory of 30 min relating to this aspect of the work, followed by a talk.

Part of the program CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION/ Dansehallerne / dansehallerne.dk

How would big politics look like, if it was shaped by the sensing body?

How to offer conditions, where the body is invited to inhabit complex and paradoxical questions and seemingly abstract topics such as economy, environmental or social issues?

How can the body be catalyst for producing thought and become a transformative resource, a form of activism?

OCTOBER 8 - 19:00