Works > Nature May Be The Most Complex Word In The Language
Performance at “Hedens Kunst” in Ikast-Brande, 2025
In this performance, the artist moves fluidly between three elements: historical and contemporary reflections on nature, intimate everyday narratives, and sudden transformations into animal forms. The audience is invited into a space where human, nature, and animal merge into a living, ever-shifting experience.
The artist reads from Alexander von Humboldt (“Nature itself is sublime and eloquent”), Raymond Williams (“Nature may be the most complex word in the language”), and contemporary thinkers such as Donna Haraway (“Staying with the trouble”) and Timothy Morton (“Dark Ecology”). These voices intertwine with sensuous vignettes — waking beneath polyester sheets, finding calm on forest paths, and feeling the ecstasy of gazing across expansive farmlands where uniform monocultures still present themselves as “nature.”
Through sound and movement, the artist undergoes sudden metamorphoses — voice and body assuming the forms of animals: cow, sheep, dog, bird, cat. The boundaries between human, animal, and idea dissolve, and the audience encounters the many dimensions of nature in both physical and intellectual ways.
The performance shifts between reflection, sensation, and transformation — between gravity and irony — inviting the audience to reconsider our relationship with the natural world, from Humboldt’s vision of a living totality to the fragmented Anthropocene we inhabit today.
Duration: Approximately 10 minutes
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