PERFORMING LANDSCAPES NORDIC/BALTIC

I work cross-aesthetically within the fields of choreography, performance, video and installation using the body as a living instrument for encounters, research and co-creation. The works revolve around encounters and intra-actions between humans and more-than-human bodies and worlds including rocks, fungi and plants, wind, waters and tides, soil types and larger geographical areas.

Since 2020 I focus on landscapes shapes by human intervention like extraction, production, waste and infrastructure to explore, what care and reciprocity looks like here. The works employ immersion, co-creation and long duration and draw inspiration from both scientific and academic research to develop embodied knowledge and encounters of reciprocity and co-creation.

My work formats includ performances (both participatory and solo, site specific and in art spaces), sound and video installations, exhibitions, writings and publications.

Previous performances and exhibitions (selection): Metropolis (DK), OIT (NO), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (DK), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (DK), Roskilde Festival (DK), Heartland Festival (DK), KØS Museum (DK), The Danish National Gallery (DK), Festival of Future Nows / Hamburger Bahnhof (DE), Pergine Festival (IT), Breath Days (IT), Art Center Silkeborg Bad (DK) Liselund (DK), The Tunnelfactory (DK) amongst others.

Georg Jagunov (b. 1984) is a Danish-Belarusian visual artist based in Copenhagen. He graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2011 and works across installation, sculpture, digital animation, sound, projection, and performance.

His practice moves at the intersection of nature, geology, and the human imagination. Through sensory and spatial formats, he explores deep time, geological processes, cultural heritage, and the hidden narratives of materials. Drawing on organic and geological structures, he creates works that connect the microscopic with the landscape, and the material with the mythological.

In recent years, he has worked particularly with moss, flint, water, afforestation, and ancient landscapes across different scales and contexts. Jagunov frequently develops interdisciplinary projects with architects, researchers, educators, and cultural institutions.

Yohei Hamada is a dance artist currently based on the island of Røst in northern Norway but originally from Japan. His work explores how movement emerges through the relationship between the body and its environment. Landscape, in his approach, is a condition that continually shapes perception, behaviour, and culture. Through choreography, site-responsive performances, and long-term artistic research, he investigates how humans are formed by the places they inhabit and, in turn, become part of the ever changing landscape itself.

Recent projects have focused on northern landscapes stretching across Eurasia, attempting to grasp the missing links between Northern Europe and East Asia. Rather than separating nature and culture or human beings from nature, his practice asks how people, materials, and environments continuously shape one another. Dance becomes a way of sensing these relationships and of imagining how humans might live differently within an ever changing planet.

I am a visual artist and work with the landscape through a performative action. I examine the many layers of the given landscape, it can be the historical, ethnological, biological and social layers. The local population in the area always has a large role in the creation of the work, and I work with the materials that are on site. In doing so, I create a new narrative that connects past, present and future with the utmost respect for the place I work with.

Madeleine Kate McGowan is an Irish-Danish artist, director and curator working across performance, sound, collective singing and ecological practice. Her work explores how artistic experiences can reshape relationships between humans, landscapes and the more-than-human world. Through site-responsive and participatory formats, she works with voice, bodies, ecologies and places as active collaborators rather than subjects of representation.
Her projects include SOLASTALGIA, a performance rooted in ecological grief; BIRD OPERA, in which human voices embody the songs of endangered birds; The Garden Caretaker and Levested, which combine artistic participation, nature education and the creation of multispecies habitats; and Planting Songs, an exploration of oral transmission, plant knowledge and collective memory.
Across her practice, McGowan develops sensuous and communal ways of knowing landscapes, inviting audiences and local participants to encounter ecology through attention, imagination, care and embodied experience.

WAUHAUS is a Helsinki-based multidisciplinary arts collective working across contemporary theatre, dance and live art. Our works vary widely in form, scale and context, but performance is at the heart of everything we do. We are interested in how performance can create temporary worlds that shift our perceptions of what is familiar, possible or taken for granted.

This approach takes many different form including site sensitive and and specific works that mark an uncompromising attempt to understand how humans fit in as part of a multispecies continuum. Their works are not narratives lamenting the destruction wreaked by modernization, but a sincere effort to fathom how we can foster new life skills in the era of eco-crisis.