Digerberget, DansPlats Skog, 5-11 May 2025
How might a voice crack open the distance between the human body and the bodies of plants?
For one intensive week, performance‑maker Rickard Borgström and choreographer Mikko Hyvönen turn the pine ridge of Digerberget into both studio and interlocutor. Within Rickard Borgström’s artistic-research project Performing Ecologies, this Field Lab braids Roy Hart–inspired extended voice work with eco-psychological motifes to unfold a hybrid practice of choreographic lamenting.
Daily cycles of sounding, moving and writing collide grief‑growls with spiral steps; field notes harden into blunt, anti‑pastoral texts that probe the stubborn seams; mind/body, culture / nature, human / plant. The inquiry stays material and biological factual: what happens when vocal cords vibrate like resin under beetle pressure and words spring from the moss as both wound and salve?
Insights feed directly into sister research biotopes in Ekeby Nature Forest [SE], Sibbo Storskog [FI], Öjen Nature Forest [FI], and preparing for future iteration in Repovesi [FI].
Informal Public Sharing
Saturday 10 May, 14:00-15:00
DansPlats Skog, Stråtjära
Audio fragments, movement scores and stories about the work will surface for an open dialogue on how live art might sense planetary urgency rather than merely aestheticise it.
All curious, eco‑thinkers, neighbors are welcome.
rickardborgstrom.com 