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| Time of residency | June 2026 |
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| Contact info | www.lienejurgelane.com |
| Definition of artistic practice? | I am an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and anthropologist. My practice weaves together performance art, artistic research and multispecies collaborations (especially with plants and trees), rooted in earth-based wisdom traditions from the Baltic region. I create spaces for deep connections - through sensory walks, participatory performances, workshops, DJ sets, festival programs, or plant - spaces where humans and more-than-humans can meet in a reciprocal exchange. |
| Title of the investigation at the residency | we have been weaving since the dawn of time |
| Description of investigations and findings | I have been investigating listening through hands and what opens through being in direct physical contact with the land through repeated movements and crafting. Five days in a row I spent a couple of hours each day weaving grasses from the local meadow into a braided rope. Altogether I spend about 14 hours braiding, singing, reflecting, listening, and connecting with the grasses ending up with a 120 footsteps long grass rope that I then used for a participatory art piece for audience. Through this process I felt a deep connection with my mother who was very talented and very engaged with different hand-crafts, and I felt how through my hands I entered plant time & deep time and felt the connection with all the thousands of weavers before me near and far. Also continuously weaving the three strands I could not but think about the process of constantly weaving past, present, future into one. It was deeply humbling and inspiring experience. |
| What are you most curious about or invested in in your own practice? | I am invested in creating spaces for deep connection (with oneself, others, and land) through art, ritual, and other types of gatherings/ Rooting this work in the hope that those spaces can become a sort of spells that add to the collective work of repair, healing, and lifting the curse of separation that I feel strongly is one of the root causes to the multiple intersected crises of the current times. |
| What questions did you bring to investigate and what questions are you leaving with? | I came with the intention to listen - to the island, to the other artists, to the seeds within me that want to sprout. I am leaving with even more intention to keep doing that and a curiosity to investigate further what it means to listen in deep time. I also came with a curiosity to reflect deeper on my artistic practice - what is what in it? I am walking away with a question of what would become possible in my art and life, if I let go of this question. |
| Transformative, creative moments at the residency | The Udesidning on solstice night - spending the night on a rock looking into the sea through the whole cycle of night. What was especially transformative was observing a blade of grass standing through the whole night, dancing with the big winds. It touched me to the core - how to be so rooted even on a rock that you move with such fluidity but not lose your core. It was both a personally transformative moment and also where the idea to spend time with the grasses to learn their ways came from. |
| Keywords for the work done at the residency | Co-creation, Connection, Embodied Landscapes, Grass, More than human, Natural environments, udesidning, Weaving |
| Research locations | Baltic Sea, BIRCA grounds, Krystalsøen (Crystal Lake), Wood at BIRCA |
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