Artistic Research | Performing Heterotopia
Nordic Summer University Circle 7
Symposium Presence
in collaboration with the University of the Arts Helsinki’s Centre for Artistic Research
13–14 August 2021, Kallio-Kuninkala, Finland
The basis of this land art collaboratory activity is in transformation stories. The aim is that they create a new kind of aesthetically and spiritually tuned way of encountering the place and open up presence. The natural materials found in the place (leaves, branches, straws, conifers, stones…) will be collected in order to form an animal character or animal symbol associated with the stories of the place or with species we want to draw attention into. Participants are invited to a play in which the imagination is fed with a collection of stories and beliefs about transformation. The aim of this tactile activity is to increase place empathy, sense the presence by merging into ground and to see and feel something new, not least the power of collaboration.
