Performing Landscapes

Six full moons in the summer of 2023:

Six artists will enhance biodiversity in Vild Park, in consultation with the earth, plants, animals, and other living spirits. Each artist will have their own lunar cycle, from full moon to full moon.

The artists create new artworks using elements already present in Vild Park; new constructions, paths, vibrations and rituals. The landscape and life within Vild Park serve as the focal point of the works/ the landscape itself being the true audience.

The individual works are presented to the public at each full moon; a conversation with the artists, around a bonfire, followed by a light meal.

links to full moon reportages by kraftkvinden:

Stina Thue Strange
Søren Lose
Thomas Seest
Hartmut Stockter
Annika B Lewis
Sarah Lee Armstrong

image gallery

Huskunstner-i-GuldborgsundDownload

Performing Landscape is supported by The Danish Art Council and Nordea.
In collaboration with Metropolis Landscapes and Guldborgsund municipal.

when the ravens turn white

collaboration with Jessie Kleemann, 2021

Video: Jessie Kleemann / Thomas Seest

Performance and text: Jessie Kleemann
Story board and direction: Thomas Seest
Sound design: Joachim Lorck-Schierning
Camera: Tim Jørgensen
Edit: Thomas Seest
Production: ReGeneration 2021

‘Sex Ecologies’ Kunsthall Trondheim 2021
‘Lá. Læ. Likkja. Magna’ Rønnebæksholm 2023

TALER TIL ET STED V-X

a serie of films to explore relations between literature, sound, space, performance, documentation and VR360 film

watch VR360 trailer

a collaboration with six Nordic authors/ performers:

Cia Rinne/ Amine Mesnaoui (FIN/MAR)
Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl (ISL)
Lars Skinnebach (DK)
Pär Thörn (SWE)
Jessie Kleemann (GL/DK)
Slim & Krystal (DK)

Premiere 2021 (postponed due to Covid19 restrictions)

Cia Rinne
Pär Thörn
Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl
Jessie Kleemann
Slim & Krystal
Lars Skinnebach

support from: Nordic Culture Point and Danish Art Institute
Distribution though danish libraries
initiative and curator: Lasse Thorning Jæger (FO) and Thomas Seest (DK)

titania II-III

100 year old Nini Theilade, re-enacts the choreography; Titania, queen of the ferries. From her part in the film A Midsummer Nights Dream Hollywood 1935

Performance: Nini Theilade
Choreography (1935): Nini Theilade
Camera, edit and idea (2015): Thomas Seest
Music: Mendelsohn (score from the original film)
Camera assistence: Sarah Jane Redmond
Nini personal assistence: Eva Tarp
Production Prismefilm 2015

60secondsdance first prize 2016 Screrendance Stockholm
Jury’s statement:
A precise and quietly detailed re-enaction of the choreography and the ageing of the body. With modest means, beautiful and intelligent lighting, the film conveys, on subtilast possible way, a whole life in dance.

Installation view, Royal Theater, Copenhagen old stage, 2019
Thanks to Statens Kunstfond, Christina Wendelboe, Eva Tarp, Linn Bahn Christoffersen and Nikolai Hübbe

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TALER TIL ET STED I-IV

a 360VR project 

link to the film

a serie of film to explore relations between literature, space and film

a collaboration with four authors from Forlaget Basilisk: 

Peter Højrup
Christina Hagen
Kasper Hesselbjerg
Per Aage Brandt

premiere 2017

support from: Danish Art Institute and Forfatterforeningen
initiative and curator: Thomas Seest and Peter Højrup

LAND OVER VAND

seven subtitles / one film
link to the film

Seven danish authors have subtitled a five-minute film.
The film depicts a movement, from sea to land, and back again.

The film is silent. The sea frames the story.

Presented as an interactive installation for 72 hours during Roskilde festival 2012. The camera is pulled out of the water (in the film), when a person come near the screen (on the festival).

The project is initiated by Roskilde Bibliotekerne.
Idea and concept: Thomas Seest.
Production: Thomas Seest.
Curator: Christinas Wendelboe.
Interaction and construction design: Martin Campostrini.
Support: Danish Cultural Fund and Danish Art Institute.
Copyright: Thomas Seest and the authors.

AMALIE SMITH
ALEN MESKOVIC
CHRISTEL WIINBLAD
BJØRN RASMUSSEN
GERD LAUGESEN
HARALD VOETMANN
RENÈ JEAN JENSEN

  • line up
  • poetry hall
  • interaction

Syv danske forfattere har undertekstet en 5-minutters filmsekvens udarbejdet af billedkunstner Thomas Seest. Filmen følger et løssluppet kameras rejse fra vand til land til vand. Havet danner en visuel strukturel ramme.

each author received a postcard from st Croix

LAND OVER VAND er del af Litteraturen finder sted – formidlingskoncepter for ny litteratur, Roskilde Bibliotekerne 2012.

LEPORELLO 12-22

eleven authors/ eleven visual artists

eleven books/ eleven film/ one exhibition

Forlaget Arena/ Third Ear/ Politikens forhal

link to the film

artists and authors work together on a book in leporello format

one side: four colour print, gloss
other side: black print, matt
104 x 10,5 cm folded
each side 7,5 x 10,5 cm 

"Udgangspunktet for serien Leporello har været at igangsætte en række samarbejder på kryds og tværs af de kunstneriske miljøer motiveret og dikteret af formatet Leporello. Først og fremmest i håb om at opvække synergi blandt de implicerede kunstnere og deres arbejder, og ligeledes for at tilskynde en udvidet forståelse af, hvad en bog er og kan være"
Thomas Seest og Christina Wendelboe

film and books exhibited in Politikens Forhal 2010

LEPORELLO 1-11

elleve bøger i leporello format

elleve billedkunstnere

Forlaget Langtbortistan

PARTICIPATORS

Emil Salto (dk)
Thomas Seest (dk)
Lina Larsen (dk)
Janne Hoem (nor)
Miriam Nielsen (dk)
Jan Danebod (dk)
Mats Eriksson (swe)
David Bellingham (sco)
Jakob Wegener (dk)
Ebbe Stub (dk)
Cecilie Gravesen (dk)

BOOKS
7,5×10,5 cm (12 pages, folded)
10,5×93,5 cm (open)
350g paper
four colour print (front)
black print (back)
distributed by Langbortistan

EXHIBITION
V1 Turbinehallerne Copenhagen november/2005

Supported by Lademanns Fond and
Nordisk Kulturfond