CURRENT ACTIVITIES, NEWS AND UPDATES
Performing Landscapes Laboratory
Art, nature and humans in an ecological threesome drama
Hello!earth will be amongst the contributing artists at this 2 day seminar.
We invite for the workshop “The sensing body as the activist” and talk a bit about our work and how the body can be catalyst for producing thought and become a transformative resource, a form of activism?
26-27 January, Metropolis invites you to Performing Landscapes Laboratory and puts the question: What is the role and the potential of art in a time of acute ecological crisis?
The programme will feature approx. 40 invited artists, curators, researchers and writers focusing on the relationship between art, nature, landscape and the human. How can we live and create more sustainably, meaningfully and in balance with our surroundings?
The laboratory is aimed at those interested in and concerned about current art, nature and climate issues, whether as a practicing artist, academic, professional, student or citizen.
Programme here:
https://www.metropolis.dk/en/performing-landscapes-laboratory/
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.
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*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.
*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
LABORATORIE & TALK
we are at SIGNAL conference on urban interventions in Brussels.
http://cifas.be/en/workshops/signal-7 / http://www.cifas.be/en/signal
Together with Chantal Mouffe (BE/UK), Joanna Warsza (PL/DE), Tunde Adefioye (BE), Mattin (ES), Dmitry Vilensky & Olga Egorova / Chto Delat (RU), Siniša Labrović (HR), Katrien Verwilt Metropolis - Københavns Internationale Teater & Vera Maeder / Hello!earth (DK), Mike Ribalta /FiraTàrrega (ES), Floriane Gaber (BE/FR), Stephen Collins/University of the West of Scotland (UK) & Michael Gustavsson/Uppsala University (SE)
This years topic: the joy of disagreement
SEPTEMBER 21-23
PERFORMANCES IN COPENHAGEN:
CPH:STAGE: JUNE 1,2,3
METROPOLIS: JUNE 7.8.9 / 29,30 and JULY 1