SOIL AND WATER - THE SENSUOUS FUNDAMENTS FOR LIFE.
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19 – 20 August, 2025
Himmelbjerggården // 8680 Ry, Denmark
21 August, 2025
Moesgaard Campus – Aarhus University // 8270 Højbjerg, Denmark
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ABOUT
Secret Hotel invites you to EARTHBOUND Symposium: An interdisciplinary symposium that weaves together art and science to reimagine how we human beings relate to the living world.
This year, we investigate soil and water. In the face of climate emergency, we create an immersive framework to co-explore and co-reflect on our sensuous and deep-rooted relationships with these ancient elements.
This 2025 edition is organised in collaboration with Himmelbjerggården and Aarhus University, and we’re excited to present a program of inspiring talks, workshops, art, debates, a staged dinner, rituals and sharing sessions.
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PROGRAM
KEYNOTE - by Minna Salami
How can we reimagine knowledge in a time of ecological and epistemic crisis?
Minna Salami is an author, social critic, and senior fellow and research chair at The New Institute. Minna’s books -- ‘Sensuous Knowledge’, ‘Can Feminism Be African?’, and her award-winning MsAfropolitan blog -- champion emancipatory and rooted approaches to knowledge that expand and challenge dominant and conventional prisms.
https://msafropolitan.com
INVITED SPEAKERS
Charlotte Du Cann (UK): Writer, editor, and co-director of the Dark Mountain Project, and author of After Ithaca: Journeys in Deep Time and 52 Flowers That Shook My World. She has co-created many immersive, dramaturgical events and teachings, based on reconnection with the more-than-human world and mythology of place.
www.dark-mountain.net
Venus Jasper (NL): Queer visual artist, storyteller, world builder, researcher and singer-priestess. With works such as EARTHSHRINE – Sensing Sacred Soils and OAKBaLLZ and EELSkin, Venus Jasper explores their own relation to sacred swamps, ancestry and trauma, based on queer ecology and land-based ways of knowing.
https://www.venusjasper.earth
WORKSHOPS
The workshop program of Earthbound 2025 offers six parallel workshops that invite participants into immersive, sensorial encounters with soil, water, microbes, and mud – exploring themes of interdependence, grief, ritual, and more-than-human storytelling.
You can meet these international artists and researchers:
- Katrine Faber (DK)
- Dorthe Refslund Christensen (DK)
- Bethany Copsey (NZ/NL)
- Moss Berke (US/IT)
- Dovilė Railaitė (LT)
- Eglė Pundzevičiūtė (LT)
- Ingrid Tranum Velásquez (DK)
- Anja Mølle Lindelof (DK)
- Tiff Mak (DK)
- Katinka Versendaal (NL)
- Zuzana Ernst (SK/AUT)
- Susana Ojeda (COL/AUT)
ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS
'ENTANGLED' - by Beyond Darkness
'Hydrocommunication' - by Mariia Solodiankina & Janina Taurinen
'Under Skov' - by Secret Hotel
'The Harvest Dinner' - by Tina Andersen
READ MORE
See the program and all practical info on the website:
https://www.secrethotel.dk/en/earthbound-25/
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DO I HAVE TO PARTICIPATE ALL 3 DAYS?
No, you can buy a ticket for the full 3-days experience, but it’s also possible to choose between attending the symposium only at Himmelbjerggården (2 days) or Moesgaard Campus (1 day).
ACCOMMODATION
You can book your accommodation at Himmelbjerggården, or use our free shuttle bus that drives daily between Aarhus and Himmelbjerggården.
Book accommodation at Himmelbjerggården here:
https://www.place2book.com/en/sw2/sales/r7cw3p8oob
Or book your seat in the shuttle bus when booking your ticket.
TICKETS
Register for EARTHBOUND 2025 through our website here:
https://www.secrethotel.dk/en/earthbound-25/
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EARTHBOUND is organised, since 2018, by the performance theatre Secret Hotel. The 2025 edition is organised in collaboration with Himmelbjerggården, Earthwise Residency and Aarhus University
EARTHBOUND is supported by: Statens Kunstfond, Region Midtjylland, Folkesparekassens Fond, Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond and Aarhus Kommune.
Also check out other Arts events in Silkeborg, Workshops in Silkeborg, Literary Art events in Silkeborg.
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