Sympoiesis
En kropslig dialog med Liselunds landskaber i tekst, video og fotografi — af Nana Francisca Schottländer
Om værket
Hvert måned gennem et år udforsker Nana Francisca Schottländer Liselund Have og de forskellige årstiders liv og fænomener. Kroppen er hendes redskab og huden en membran, hvor verdener og væsener mødes, hvor liv udveksler med liv; træ og krop, vand og hud, kød og sten, lys og mørke.
Samskabelse
Sympoiesis betyder samskabelse, og værket er et skabende moment, hvor menneske og mere-end-menneske mødes i nye synteser. De kropslige møder med landskabet er i samarbejde med fotograf Thomas G. Bagge dokumenteret i video og foto, hvor kroppens og havens konturer går i symbiose, og menneskekroppen falder ind som endnu en skulpturel form i landskabet.
Det første, der møder mig, er rødderne: Lemmer, forgreninger. Nedborede, holdende sammen på det hele i et sejt greb om jorden. Forgreningernes mønstre går igen – multiplicerer sig i det uendelige. På tværs af træer, bække, mos og min egen krop. De filtrer sig ind i hinanden i lag og forskydninger; kalejdoskopiske gentagelser. Som et fælles sprog, en fælles kode, der løber på tværs af entiteter og materialer.
Installation
Materialet er komponeret til en række videoværker, der samles i en installation i haven. Her kan man rejse gennem havens liv, årstidernes transformationer og udvekslingerne mellem en menneskekrop og landskabets mangeartede kroppe.
Om Nana Francisca Schottländer
Nana Francisca Schottländer har siden 2000 arbejdet i krydsfeltet mellem dans, performance, installation og konceptkunst. Det står centralt i hendes arbejde, at hun bruger sin egen krop som et levende redskab til udforskning og skabelse. Hendes projekter spænder over koreografiske værker, performative installationer, videoværker og performative interventioner i offentlige rum.
…human bodies, like all other bodies, are not entities with inherent boundaries and properties but phenomena that acquire specific boundaries and properties through the open-ended dynamics of intra-activity. Humans are part of the world-body space in its dynamic structuration. — Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway
Præsenteret af
Sympoiesis præsenteres af Metropolis – Københavns Internationale Teater. Skabt i dialog med Peter Wohllebens Træernes Hemmelige Liv og Karen Barads Meeting the Universe Halfway, i samarbejde med fotograferne Thomas Gunnar Bagge og Mikkel Ulriksen.
Sympoiesis
A bodily dialogue with Liselund's landscapes in text, video and photography — by Nana Francisca Schottländer
About the work
Each month through a year, Nana Francisca Schottländer explores Liselund Park and the life and phenomena of the different seasons. The body is her instrument and the skin a membrane where worlds and beings meet, where life exchanges with life: tree and body, water and skin, flesh and stone, light and darkness.
Making-together
Sympoiesis means making-together, and the work is a creative moment in which the human and more-than-human meet in new syntheses. The bodily encounters with the landscape have been documented in video and photography in collaboration with photographer Thomas G. Bagge, where the contours of body and garden enter symbiosis, and the human body settles in as yet another sculptural form within the landscape.
The first thing that meets me is the roots: limbs, branches. Bored in, holding everything together in a tenacious grip on the earth. The patterns of the branches recur — multiplying endlessly. Across trees, streams, moss, and my own body. They filter into each other in layers and displacements; kaleidoscopic repetitions. Like a shared language, a shared code running across entities and materials.
Installation
The material is composed into a series of video works gathered in an installation in the garden. Here one may travel through the garden's life, the transformations of the seasons, and the exchanges between a human body and the landscape's diverse bodies.
About Nana Francisca Schottländer
Nana Francisca Schottländer has worked since 2000 at the intersection of dance, performance, installation, and conceptual art. Central to her practice is the use of her own body as a living instrument of exploration and creation. Her projects range across choreographic works, performative installations, video works, and performative interventions in public space.
…human bodies, like all other bodies, are not entities with inherent boundaries and properties but phenomena that acquire specific boundaries and properties through the open-ended dynamics of intra-activity. Humans are part of the world-body space in its dynamic structuration. — Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway
Presented by
Sympoiesis is presented by Metropolis – Copenhagen International Theatre. Created in dialogue with Peter Wohlleben's The Hidden Life of Trees and Karen Barad's Meeting the Universe Halfway, in collaboration with photographers Thomas Gunnar Bagge and Mikkel Ulriksen.