Barn Art Symposium

(Fotos: Stefano Questorio, Martina Marti, Christine Fentz, Jesper Bonde Hansen)

Barn Art Symposium, Secret Hotel's annual festival at Mols, was a meeting point, a melting pot for artists and other professionals who met to share their thoughts, show their works and create new ones. The festival was a great succes in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Barn Art Symposium has since evolved into Earthbound Symposium.

Barn Art Symposium I

12th - 16th July 2012

Artists from Italy, Germany, England, Norway, Sweden, Finland/Switzerland and Denmark shared their works and thoughts with each other, with neighbors and other participants.

There were wake-up sessions in the mornings by Colin Poole or Stefano Questorio.

We had performances, a concert, presentations, workshops and lectures by Stefano Questorio (I), Martina Marti (SCH/SF), Jochen Arbeit (D), Ronan Vandrer (DK), Af-Af (AUS), Mette Bovin (DK), André Austvoll (N) and Secret Hotel/Christine Fentz (DK). And, of course, fantastic food!

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Barn Art Symposium II

15th - 19th August 2013

Barn Art Symposium II (BASII) took place the 15th - 19th August 2013and this time the selected topic was deep ecology - we are all part of a greater unity! Besides from presentations, workshops, shows and more, we also had a continuous dialogue about our relation to sorroundings, sustainability, as well as how landscapes can affect both the Arts as well as other human activities.

Again, Secret Hotel had the pleasure of hosting a broad range of interesting and inspiring guests, who sparked many exciting conversations.

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Program

  • Katrine Faber and Søren Friboe (DK) opened BASII with their participatory performance Singing the Place.
  • The anthropologist Mette Bovin (DK) showed her documentary movie about the Wodabee-tribe of Niger and Mali.
  • Martina Marti (CH/SF), Emma Suominen (SF) and Nini Julia Bang (DK) created their solo performance ”Hamlet Private” specifically for Mols after a succesful vist in Berlin. It was performed three days during BASII.
  • Secret Hotel's walking performance ”Tanke Gange” opened the second day of BASII.
  • The biologist Inger Kærgaard (DK) shared her knowledge and considerations about the forests of this planet.
  • Dancer and choreographer Dagmar Dachauer (A) showed "Treeo" - a work in progress movie including dance and a tree, which she wanted feedback on.
  • PhD-student Corinna Casi (I) from Helsinki University presented the philosophy behind deep ecology.
  • Performer Charlotta G. Cederblad (S) discussed her planned performance about consumption and equality.
    Musician Anna Ottertun (S) performed her compositions mixing Arab and Swedish singing and asked for response.
  • Shaman and lecturer Annette Høst (DK) did a presentation about her worldviews as a shaman.
  • Dancer and performer Stefano Questorio (I) organized a yoga walk in the landscape.

Here is a link to Mie Lotus Lykke's blog post at Lotus & Skov
Mention of Barn Art Symposium II in Ebeltoft Folketidende
The Austrian dancer and performer Dagmar Dachauers “Barn Art Symposium II Chronicle”

Barn Art Symposium III

20th - 25th August 2014

Barn Art Symposium III (BASIII) took place on the 20th - 25th August 2014.
Here, Secret Hotel again invited artists and professionals from seven countries to join the festival under the title of "Art in the Barn" ("Kunst i laden"). We worked on the development of Landscape Dialogues.

Watch a video from BASIII here.

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Barn Art Symposium II was supported by the Danish Arts Foundation's Performance Arts Comittee.