OPEN CALL WORKSHOP
Workshop: The Sea as Relation, Practice, and Field of Knowledge
This workshop invites artists and researchers to a shared exploration of the sea as an ecological, mythological, and material field. Through different approaches – ranging from practical fieldwork to mythical imaginaries and posthumanist discourses – participants will have the opportunity to try out new ways of understanding, embodying, and relating to the Baltic Sea.
Workshop components
- Attentive nature-awareness and mythical perspectives
We carry out exercises that open body and mind to the sea as a living environment. Through guided practices and simple ritual acts, we direct attention toward the existential, mythological, and animistic dimensions of water and marine life forms. - Critical and artistic methods
We explore how contemporary art can be rethought through new materialist and posthumanist theories. The focus is on how established boundaries between humans and the sea can be seen as porous, and how artistic methods can evolve to embody this interconnection. - Thresholds between psyche and nature
We work with writing and performance-based exercises where the inner and outer landscapes mirror one another. Here, the sea becomes a site for both psychological projection and material resonance. - The body as water
Through movement practices, we investigate the body’s relationship to sea and water, and how butoh-inspired processes can reflect the rhythms and wave-movements of the ocean. - Fieldwork and ecological knowledge
Using marine biological methods, we carry out practical exercises such as collecting water or seaweed samples, followed by laboratory analysis. Here, participants are introduced to fundamental questions and methods of ecological marine research, opening spaces where scientific and artistic perspectives meet.
Purpose
The workshop creates a platform for artists and researchers to share methods, languages, and perspectives. By moving between mythology, body, art, and science, we open pathways to new understandings of the sea – not merely as a resource or research object, but as a relation and a co-actor.
Language
Scandinavian/English
Workshop facilitators:
DACE / Rickard Borgström & Rebecca Chentinell
Tony Cederberg
Amalia Fonfara
Jessie Kleemann
Katarina Skår Lisa
and others.
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