Art and Nature Lab 2024.
art: Olivera Popov
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Photos and text by Francesca Romana Rietti Handwork, kærlig hånd, manos a la obra Ringk ø bing, Thursday 15 th of August 2024 We spent our second day participating to the Bionstallation workshop led by the artists of ET4F (Klavs Weiss, Karen Havskov Jensen and Johanne Randen, Denmark and Norway) and by the Serbian architect Dragana Kojicic. When we arrived at Natur Kraft, they welcomed us around their creation. They were waiting for us to complete it. Theirs was not a common choice: unknown and mostly inexperienced hands were intrusted with the task of finishing their work of art. The one they had been working on, incessantly, for several weeks, heedless of the rain and wind. Yet their smiles today were as shining as the sun of this Danish summer’s day. Under a big green tent, they had prepared a long working table with dishes, bowls, jars, bottles, shingles. In each of them there were examples of the different natural materials we would have then used...
The right to know Photos and text by Francesca Romana Rietti Ulfborg, Wednesday 14 th of August 2024 Today the opening of “ Art-Nature Lab Workshops and Lectures” brought us to a special and unique place where a necessity put into practice became a reason for living, a ‘mission’. We have been guests of the Heritage Cultural Farm founded twenty-five years ago by the Danish shepherd Berit Kilerich who wants to share her 800 sheep and all her knowledge and skeels about them. Here she is taking care of the sheep, landscaping and biodiversity in a holistic way. The land is opened to everyone and there is no fencing. During these last days, the doors of the farm were opened also to Marija Kozomora, a Serbian eco designer and founder of the slow-fashion brand Kozomora. Today we experienced a tour in the land with the sheep led by Berit (1 hour) and a workshop on eco-print and natural dyeing of textiles c...
At the crossroads
Photos and text by Francesca Romana Rietti At the crossroads Ringk ø bing, Tuesday 13 th of August 2024 Just at the entrance of Natur Kraft, one of the five different open-air spaces where the research project “ Art-Nature Lab Workshops and Lectures” will take place, today I enjoyed the luxury to be in one of these strips of land where borders do not exist. There I met a group made by the three artists (Klavs Weiss, Karen Havskov Jensen and Johanne Randen) of the Contemporary Visual Art Projects Association in West Jutland (ET4U) and Dragana Kojicic, a Serbian architect specialized in sustainable buildings made with natural materials. They gathered together for the first time to create a wooden construction. What I saw and impressed me was a fairytale house with no walls and without a roof. Above us only the low sky of Jutland made by huge white clouds and wind. The panels that support the structure are made by square windows that they sta...
The Five Elements
"Wu Xing"- Teatret OM Metal-Earth, actor's props From left to right: metal balls, clay dish, clay horse Fire Thinking of the elements in connection with watercolours I went from Water + Colour (Pigment = Earth/Metal) to trying to find natural materials that would give me their colour. I found a vibrantly coloured unintentional "sculpture" (old barbecue left outside to rust) and some coal left in it. and this was the result of my experiment: Olivera Popov
Broogarden, A water meadow shaded by the birch trees Text and photo by: Francesca Romana Rietti Build and Break Break and Build Ringk ø bing, Friday, 9 th of August 2024 - Teatret Om, working room Itsi Bitsi My first working day is the third one of rehearsals for the site-specific performance Wu Xing , inspired by the interaction of the five agents of Chinese Taoist culture: water, metal, earth, fire and wood. It will be presented in five different open-air places - located around the area of the Ringk ø bing’s fjord - from the 14 th until the 18 th of August - in the frame of the research project “ Art-Nature Lab Workshops and Lectures” curated by Antonella Diana, visual artist...
