Experience the intensive festival format Performing Landscapes, where five artists present newly created pieces in different types of landscapes. In Odense we go on a walk from the harbor and follow the water’s flow towards the sea.
You can experience works in different formats – walking performance, rest performance, sound work, participatory workshop, daydreaming dance…
The canal connects several landscapes and several cultural-historical elements, and at the same time the canal and the fjord are core elements in the ecological state of the area. The performance is thus also a city walk, reflecting the project's site-specific ambitions to (re)create connections to our local surroundings.
Performing Landscapes has roots in an artistic practice where nature is involved on its own terms, and where the works seek to create change in a time marked by ecological collapse. Art takes up residence in nature and the landscape to investigate how we put new values into play.
Performing Landscapes are both performative interpretations of the landscape and the landscape itself, which performs in its own right. Performing Landscapes Odense is part of a larger, nationwide art project in 11 municipalities in August and September 2025, which investigates how we can live and create more sustainably and in equal interaction and cohesion with our surroundings. Read more about Performing Landscapes on Metropolis’ website.
ROGRAM 1 – GUIDED WALK
11:00–18:00 Walk through all six works. You join for the full seven hours and are sailed back to DYNAMO afterwards.
You can sign up for one or more of the performances below.
11:00–12:00 Astrid Randrup – Rust
Meeting point: Dynamo Workspace, Finlandkaj 6, Odense
RUST by Astrid Randrup
Through movement, sound, and visual intensity, rust becomes a mirror of our own changeability. Together we explore rust as a living presence – not merely a sign of decay, but as an active process. Rust is the breath of iron, a visible transformation that connects industry, nature, and body – an ecological time machine. Read more.
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12:00–13:10 Sophie Dupont – Earth Breath Release
Meeting point: Tysklandkaj, Odense / End point: Kanalvej by the Motorboat Harbor
EARTH BREATH RELEASE by Sophie Dupont
Performance artist Sophie Dupont carries numerous bags of soil equal to her own body weight. In a symbiosis between body and earth, the work opens up existential reflection on themes such as body, matter, gravity, and our connection to the earth. An interactive piece in which you influence the weight of the bags and contribute to transformation and release. Read more.
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13:10–14:25 Peter Vadim – Daydream Dialogues
Meeting point: Kanalvej by the Motorboat Harbor, Odense
DAYDREAM DIALOGUES by Peter Vadim
We are guided by a poetic, dancing shadow figure – a representative of what is overlooked, hidden, or excluded, yet still part of the place. Through daydreaming exercises, we open our senses and connect with the landscape. Daydream Dialogues explores different forms of daydreaming: actively imagining, letting thoughts drift away, or embodying another existence – a being, a community, a landscape. Read more.
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14:25–15:45 Jannie Schjødt Kold – Chorus Across the Canal
Meeting point: Nistedvej by the canal, Odense
CHORUS ACROSS THE CANAL by Jannie Schjødt Kold
Take part in a collective calling across the water of Odense Canal – a shouting choir that gives voice to some of the landscape’s stories that can no longer be heard. Read more.
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16:00–17:15 Nana Francisca Schottländer – Resting Places
Meeting point: Odense Kanalpark, Havnegade 100, Odense
RESTING PLACES by Nana Francisca Schottländer
An artistic/activist workshop-performance guiding us through attempts to rest with a place or landscape’s past(s), present(s), and possible futures. We explore how we can sink into a place, its material layers and stories, and how resting can become a way of physically and mentally connecting with them. Read more.
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17:30–17:45 Closing Performance by DYNAMO / Karoline Aamås
Meeting point: Dynamo Workspace, Finlandkaj 6, Odense
Circus artist and aerialist Karoline Aamås explores space and structure in her engagement with an old harbour crane on Byens Ø.
The artist’s body encounters the crane, in a relational exercise which collapses the boundary between motion and stillness.
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The performances are scheduled so that the end of one seamlessly marks the beginning of the next, making it possible to attend several in a row.
