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Participants in Land Art Live

Invited artists

From Umeå in the north of Sweden to Altheim in southern Germany, the following artists travel to create Land Art Live on the shores of Vombsjön during the Biosphere Festival September 7 - 15.

Anastasia Savinova

Anastasia Savinova's work revolves around places, ecologies and relationships with the "more-than-human-world". Savinova works mainly with sculptural installations that often incorporate found objects, but also in other formats such as audio, video, drawing and performance.

In recent years, Savinova has recurring worked with the project We Swim in One Water which focuses on connectedness through water with biological, geographical, historical, metaphorical and spiritual levels. By weaving together natural and industrial materials, she takes up the beauty and sublimity of the world, intimate connections between organisms and the fragility of ecosystems in the time of mass extinction.

http://www.anastasiasavinova.com/

Markus Vallien

Markus Vallien lives his philosophy. He crafts and uses nature a myriad of conceivable and unimaginable ways to find ways to explore the relationship between what is made by human hands and the rest. It is also the meeting that provides the conditions for his life in the outdoors and teaching survival arts at Konstfack.

Markus about the piece Intagen, created for VIDA museum & art gallery in 2017: "We say we live in the forest in Småland, but what is a forest? The forest that it once was before we came here no longer exists. The forest is taken in, tamed, tied up, bundled up, cowed and dreaming out through the institution's walls."

https://www.markusvallien.com/

MASU / Mattias Gunnarsson and Susanne Westerberg

MASU is a collaborative art platform run by Mattias Gunnarsson and Susanne Westerberg since 2012. They come from a drawing practice, but in recent years have put a clearer focus on spatial installations in wood, mainly outdoors. For MASU, land art is a collaboration, a dialogue with the room, its inhabitants and visitors.

(Material) location recordings is a nomadic installation that started in 2018. It is currently located in Skeneskogen, Marks municipality. The work is moved both outside and inside. In the movements, the form is transformed and adapted to the places, while the material collects information.

https://masu-projects.se/

Roger Rigorth

I like a natural life and simple and clear artistic statements. With a background in sculpture, I have continued my journey as an artist to work in and with the landscape. I work with traditional craftsmanship incorporated into a contemporary artistic language and balance philosophy and physical work in a spiritual way with a artistic result.

In the Quinta do Pisao nature reserve in Cascais/Portugal, I created the two objects One seed makes a forest, which are about the natural ability to rejuvenate. Woodwork, steelwork and weaving was mixed together into a pair of giant capsules with the help of locals where aggressive chainsaw work and meditative weaving was balanced in a visionary body creation.

http://www.roger-rigorth.de

Tomas Auran

In my artistic work, I take my departure from material-based craft traditions and see making as an essential part of my practice. Thematically, I am interested in interpersonal power, social and economic hierarchies and the physical legacies these conditions create.

About the work A QUIET SCULPTURE (2021): In the forest some distance away, below the moraine ridge lies a log balancing. Not so long ago, the forest was arable land and pasture. Traces of work can be found everywhere in the form of collapsed stone walls and stone piles. Someone has toiled and dragged there. The log has a counterweight, a large stone. The weight of the counterweight weathers away very slowly, while the poor log loses its weight quickly in the heat of summer and soon lies in the ground rotting. The work was of little use and little pleasure, and the time was fleeting.
https://tomasauran.se/

More participants

ExperimentExpressen at Vattenhallen Science Center, Lund university

Schoolclasses at Färsingaskolan in Sjöbo

The Land Art Live team

The development of Land Art Live is a co-creation where many skills are involved in the practical work and where the following people have special areas of responsibility.
Jasmine Cederqvist - workshops and contact person for artists and schools
Johan Lindberg - graphic material and Shuttle app
Henrik Rogowski - social media
Kerstin Jakobsson - project management
Nille Leander and Tom Pihl - photo and film

Collaborations

Land Art Live is one of four collaborative projects that meet in Biosfärkultur in Storkriket on sustainable site development through culture.

Thanks to the Skåne County Administrative Board and Övedskloster's estate for giving Land Art Live permission to develop on the beach at Vombsjön.

Kontorshuset Lidvägen 16

24164 Harlösa

Sverige