PERFORMING LANDSCAPES NORDIC/BALTIC

Amanda Selinder is a visual artist and biologist. Her artistic practice explores and makes visible processes unfolding around us that often remain beyond the reach of the naked eye. Through collaborative projects, frequently involving researchers, Amanda employs scientific methods from an artistic perspective. This approach allows her to ask questions from alternative viewpoints and engage with aspects of existence that do not always fit within the measurable: life itself, our interconnectedness with the living world around us, and the functions, life cycles, deaths, and conditions of other species and cells. 

The point of departure in Amanda’s work is always living organisms or cells, such as human retinal cells, endophytic fungi that inhabit plant tissues, or the slime trails left behind by slime molds as they navigate their environment. Traditional biological laboratory methods are combined with digital platforms, light projections, video, textiles, and wood to reveal different rhythms and layers of stories intertwined with the human body.

Sinna Virtanen is a writer, director, and multidisciplinary artist based in Helsinki. She creates performances, writes plays, and develops multimedia installations. She is particularly interested in expanding the understanding of what theatre can be and in exploring its possibilities beyond established forms. Her works play with notions of time and space, liminal spaces, reaching into the past and the future, and different forms of afterlife. Working across scales and contexts is central to her practice. Virtanen works reach toward the predramatic where weather conditions, natural forces, and more-than-human beings strongly shape both the reality of the performance and the experience of it.

Fern Orchestra is an Art and Science Collective that has studied subjects such as photosynthesis, closed biosphere and plant neurology in their works. Works are characterized by the presence of living organisms other than humans

Sara Gebran is a choreographer, dancer, lecturer at Stockholm University of the Arts, author of 4 books, and urban planner. Her works are situated within the expanded field of choreography. At the moment she is combining the power of art’s aesthetic and environmental law, assisted by environmental lawyers from GARN. Her 4 years research-performance is called The Forests Imaginary Trial (2023-2026). In The Forests’ Trial 2024 with premier 07.10.24, she combines choreography and environmental law practice in a staging of a fictional trial. The audience is invited as judge, representing nature, to point out those responsible for two interconnected environmental disasters: the mercury pollution from the Cheminova factory in Denmark and the mercury pollution from illegal mining in the Amazon in Venezuela. Welcome coproducers for next years sequal: The Forests’ Trial: Repair 2025. www.saragebran.com & www.la-chicharra.com

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.

Katrīna Neiburga is a Latvian artist in whose practice landscape and the material world are not a backdrop but a participant. In works created over more than twenty years, she works with found objects and seasonal rituals, observing how place and matter hold memory. Melting, decaying and earth-bound materials become a way of listening to the more-than-human world and of slowing the gaze towards what is alive around us.

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.

Fabula is a Riga-based creative research and design collective co-founded by Rūta Jumīte and Tīna Alise Kalēja. Through installations, placemaking workshops, publications, and participatory learning formats, Fabula explores relationships between people, places, and more-than-human life. The collective brings together ecological thinking, social participation, and artistic research to address contemporary eco-social challenges. Among its key projects is the self-published book Relational Landscapes: Navigation, a collection of guided practices by eight authors that invite to connect relationally with the living world. In 2025, Fabula organized the multidisciplinary summer school Design Activism: Interventions for Eco-Social Challenges, focused on urban bats, architectural heritage, and ecology of cracks. In 2026, the collective is developing experimental insect architecture project in Riga’s urban meadows to support biodiversity and multispecies coexistence.

Marika Hedemyr is a Swedish choreographer, artist, and artistic researcher working with public art, choreography, and mixed reality. She is a pioneer in Sweden of site-specific augmented and mixed reality performances in public space. Her work explores coexistence through emotional and political relationships between people and places. Her site-specific mixed reality walks combine documentary material, augmented reality technology, and performative formats. Between 2024 and 2030, she is developing a series of performances exploring coexistence with planet Earth through the elements earth, water, fire, and air, as immersive experiences that open new perspectives on relations in the landscape. She also engages in artistic research and regularly publishes on artistic practice and the role of art in society.

Annelie Stokke Grimwade is a Swedish Sámi-British artist based between Copenhagen and Oslo. She works across sculpture, writing and performance, transforming gathered and upcycled materials through ceramic processes into speculative artefacts, installations and participatory situations. Her practice is an active engagement with landscape, memory and more-than-human relations, often beginning with materials marked by ecological, historical and social forces. Informed by Sámi ways of knowing, animist thought, archaeology and feminist ecology, Grimwade’s work asks what the living world might teach us about relation, responsibility and the imagining of more thriving futures.

Helle Siljeholm is an artist and choreographer based in Oslo, Norway, currently pursuing a PhD at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Her multidisciplinary practice spans film, installation, sculpture, choreography, and performance. Her research focuses on geological entities—such as mountains and land formations—and their complex entanglements with human, natural, and cultural systems across geological time, the present moment, and possible futures. Helle’s artistic work and research are strongly influenced by a decade of collaborative artistic projects in the Middle East, particularly in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan.

Her work has been presented at a range of international venues and festivals, including: Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (No), Festival 10 Sentidos (ES), Reykjavik Dance Festival (IS), Walk&Talk Biennale- Gestures of Abundance (PT), Greek Film Archive (GR), Sísmograf (ES), Biennale Gherdëina 9: Parliament of Marmots (IT), Bolzano Danza / Haydn Foundation (IT), PCAI – Polygreen Arts and Culture Initiative (GR), Landart Gjerdrum (No), The Machine Is Us (MUNCH Triennale) and MUNCH (Opening) (No), VEGA | ARTS (DK), Black Box Teater, Høstscena, Rosendal Teater, Jugendstilsenteret and KUBE, Oslo Kunstforening, BEK, Akershus Kunstsenter (No), National Gallery of Iceland (IS), Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival (PS), Athens Biennale (GR), BIPOD – Beirut International Platform of Dance (LB), Nordic Panorama – Film and Documentary Festival (SE), Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart (DE).

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Amalie Risom Nyrup is a visual artist working from an interdisciplinary perspective. In her artistic practice, she explores the cross-aesthetic potential of art, expressed through works grounded in nature philosophy and shaped across a variety of media. Through site-specific fieldwork and ecocentric textile techniques, she explores the aesthetics and ethics of our environmental relations.