Water, Plant Medicine & Mycology in the Nordic arts

An international project by Invisibledrum in collaboration with RÅ RO and Kirsten Kjaers Museum in Thy, Denmark, and with the NGO Tribute Earth, a 501c3 nonprofit transmedia platform based in Miami, Florida, USA, . The topic focuses on environmental humanities and new ecologies around the element of water,  its biodiversity, and its ecosystems. The project is merging contemporary arts, new ecologies, indigenous wisdom committed to humanity re-establishing a sensitive relationship with water. We will create a series of seminars, exhibitions, workshops, and performances with partners of the project in 2022 & 2023.

Water, Plant Medicine & Mycology in Nordic Arts, 18-22 March 2022, Denmark

We gather sauna masters, fire keepers, peace activists, researchers and artists in Denmark at the Kirsten Kjærs Museum to discuss how to reconsider embodied “hydrocommons” in contemporary arts and new ecology practices. The first gathering will happen over 4 days in Thy, Denmark from 18th-22th of March 2022 for the Water World Day and the spring equinox. The gathering will be in person and all the contributors will be attending physical presentations, film screenings, workshops, and other interventions in the museum and outdoor surroundings.

We discuss contemporary and interdisciplinary artistic approaches of how our bodies, which are primarily composed of water, elucidate the problem of thinking about bodies in binarist terms as either “natural” or “cultural.” In bringing our focus on water and memory we propose to recover the memory of the territory through human conscious relationship to the elements of water and its biodiversity and ecosystems. Thinking about our relations to other humans and more-than-human watery bodies can help us to weave local healing traditions, arts, and new ecologies into the process. Water is the fluid of existence and the gateway of the universe that reunifies the self, the main aim of the project is to develop new rural contexts where the role of art can be explored and questioned about the interbeing of bodies of water on this planet. From ecofeminism, new ecologies, quantic/gentle activism, and neo animistic perspectives we would like to explore how art can bridge the distinctions between culture and nature.

Water, Plant Medicine & Mycology in Nordic Arts is Curated by Lise Hovessen & Nazaré Soares. Supported by Nordic Culture Fund & Dáiddafoanda-ad hoc.

Some events are open to the public, Tickets information: https://www.kkmuseum.dk/

Friday 18 March

20h Sylvia Johannsen: The IN of Gratitude to Nature, cultivating a spirit of gratitude in our daily lives Opening Ceremony. Free

The IN of Gratitude to Nature acts like an antenna that connects us to universal energy. Introduced in 2001, this IN helps to enhance the power of our prayer words. This IN is simple and easy to learn and can be done anywhere. We will perform the IN together for all nature – with a special connection to water and to the ocean.
The Waves of the Ocean. from an interview with Masami Saionji (Chairperson for Byakko Shinko Kai)
The ocean itself is energy ̶ natural energy. The energy of the ocean is expressed through the oceanʼs rhythm or movement. And this same, the natural rhythm of the ocean is in our bodies. It is the fundamental rhythm, or energy, of our life. (To read the entire interview, please visit Masami Saionjiʼs website The Earth Healerʼs Handbook, or read the book by the same name.)

Sylvia Johannsen is the representative in Denmark of the organisation May Peace Prevail on Earth International. An international peace organisation based at Mount Fuji in Japan. The prayer May peace prevail on Earth was introduced to Japan and the world in 1955 by Masahisa Goi. Today, this universal message is still the cornerstone of Byakko Shinko Kai’s work for inner peace and world peace – the simultaneous awakening of the individual and all humanity. https://www.allantonpeacesanctuary.org/ https://byakko.org/

Saturday 19 March

10h Lise Hovessen: Landscape sensory tour & harvesting. Workshop. Private Event

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Lise will guide us on a walk through nature, we will pick up food from the forest and harvest oysters and seaweed by the sea. She will introduce us to the land and present her project RÅ RO. Since 2020, she has been located at the neighbouring property of Kirsten Kjærs Museum. Also, a former smallholding, which once more has become a habitat for co-creation with the permaculture garden, horses, pigs, sheep, and chickens. This is in the spirit of Harald and John, the founders of KKM, who wanted to create a monastery-style art collective and cherished the indigenous farmer culture. Their mottos were ‘Love and Hard work and ‘be yourself.

Lise Hovesen is an educated artist with an MA in Visual Communication from Royal College of Art, Postgraduate in Drawing from Princes Drawing School. Permaculture Design Certificate from the UK. For the past 5 years been training as a shepherd and working as a project leader with Lystbaekgaard, establishing a residency and retreat place, Rural Skills Network supported by Nord +, Learn the Life Erasmus project. Currently training in various therapeutic practices fx. systemic constellations and massage. With Lystbaekgaard they have been awarded a grant from Den Jyske Kunstfond to make Land Art in the sand dunes using wool from the sheep to help protect against sand erosion, spring 2021, Lemvig Kommune. Lystbaekgaard and her work including wandering with the sheep in protected coastal areas were nominated for Nordisk Råds Miliopris 2020. https://www.instagram.com/raaro_rawpeace/

15h Dieko Offord: Birch´s Mycology and medicine. Workshop & Tea Ceremony. 150 DKK

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Betula pendula, commonly known as silver birch, warty birch, European white birch is the most common birch tree in Denmark. The birch tree has deep roots in cultural history. Often called the “mother tree” because it was the first to grow as the Ice Age retreated, it represents fertility. Considered sacred by many cultures, birch has been thought of as “the way shower” because her bright, whitebark illuminates the way in the night forest. Called the Cosmic World Tree, birch trees were used as “sky ladders” in Lapland and Siberia to travel, while in trance, to the sky world – the world of spirits and gods. Birch is one of the quintessentially feminine trees of ancient European cultures, as well as Native American traditions. Birch is called “the Lady of the Forest” in Russian folklore. Connected with Freya, the Lady of the Forest. in Norse and Germanic traditions, her energy connects to the feminine aspects of the universe and within oneself. Culpeper classified birch as being ruled by Venus. 

Birch sap is a clear liquid that can be extracted or tapped from birch trees. It’s also known as birch tree water, birch juice, and birch syrup. For hundreds of years, birch tree water has been consumed as a traditional beverage in parts of the Northern hemisphere, including Northern European countries as well as parts of Northern China and Japan. Fresh birch tree sap is described as water-like, with hints of sweet flavours. It has a clear and uncoloured appearance, similar to that of regular water. After a few days, birch water ferments and starts to taste more acidic.
Due to the nutrition content of birch juice, it is believed to promote health in several ways. Perhaps the most important health benefit of birch juice is its hydrating properties. It has been used historically as a diuretic and claimed to have “cleansing” and “detoxifying” properties for this reason.

17.30h Nazaré Soares: When the Spell is Broken: Luna de Agua Song. Participatory performance. Free

In a drop of water, to be able to observe a hydrogen atom, it must stop whirling first, then the particles inside also contained subatomic light whirlwinds. Alike the cosmos is composed of celestial bodies in constant centrifugal and rotary motion. If we observe the patterns of movement in the water of a river we may find it difficult to imagine that same is happening with the celestial bodies. We will work with fire, water mirrors and Adder stones, through geomantic exercise and invocations, each flame mirrors an acupuncture point on earth and sky, star-forming geomantic figures, and/or constellations that unites earth and cosmic sky in this communion and within the hearts of us, the people. Collectively weaving the voices of the signing minerals, resonating through our bodies and sonic energy expanding into the cosmos. Populus-via-Laetitia.

Nazaré Soares is an artist and curator mainly working with animism & spiritual technologies within contexts of contemporary art & new ecologies. She works around notions of neo-pharmacopoeias, geomancy, invisible architectures, and magic engineering. Her practice interweaves, psychoacoustic and cinematic spaces, speculative design and performance arts, incubating spaces for ritual, and incubation means. She is a founder of the art platform Invisibledrum based in Norway, and the curator of art and new ecologies for Tribute Earth, an NGO that provides access to ancestral wisdom and regenerative biocultural projects. www.nazaresoares.com

Sunday 20 March

10h Marita Isobel Solberg: in my waterdreams / i mine vanndrømmer / mu čáhcenieguin. Series of performances in 4 parts. Free

The ritual will be followed by intuitive voice weaving. Water and the energy of water is in everything, strongly connected to our minds and our bodies, our memory, our connections, communication, the world and the universe in so many different ways. Focusing on the water as the glue of everything, dissolving times or combining past, present and future, we can start to see a broader picture of the impact of water. As water and light-bearers, can we join minds, will, forces? Can we, by mixing and recharging water in different combinations see new perspectives, new possibilities? When we float, we transcend, we heal.

Marita is a chanter, a musician, a performing and visual artist with sámi and kven heritage from Manndalen in North-Troms, Norway. She has a base in Tromsø, Norway, but lives a nomadic life on the Norwegian and international art and music scene. Over the years, she has performed and done projects around the world -alone, in various collaborations or with her earlier project Mara and the Inner Strangeness, she is currently working with her solo projects, the collaboration Sol&Sten with Trond Ansten and with her ensemble MARAS. The common denominator for all her projects is the intention to challenge the audience – and herself, to try reaching into and beyond the basic feelings of man and create vibrations that have repercussions http://maritaisobelsolberg.com

Series of 4 performance in parts:

Sunday 20 March
10h
12h
Monday 21st March
12h
Tuesday 22nd March. World Water Day
12h

15h Jane Folsted: Sweat lodge Ceremony. 150 DKK

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Grandmother Jane Folsted based in Denmark will guide a Sweat Lodge ceremony for the Spring Equinox. This is a coherent process where we will receive the healing blessings of water, fire and stones, We will go into incubation for a rebirth of our waters while in gratitude to water. For the sweat lodge ceremony – Bring towers and Sarong/manga, or loose-fitting clothes, if necessary. shorts for men. The sacred fire will start in the afternoon.

“I have lived 68 years and have walked the shamanistic path for the past 35 years. I have been guided with great gratitude by Grandmothers, medicine women, and Shamans who have generously shared their wisdom and traditions and invited me into the circle around the water and the sacred fire. Countless ceremonies have been shared with indigenous peoples, from different cultures around the Earth. For over 20 years I have been the guardian of Mother Earth’s garden, a small course place in North Jutland – where we have held countless spiritual gatherings in the circle, with emphasis on our connection with the living nature. Since 2003, I have led numerous ceremonial sweat lodges here in Mother Earth’s garden and in various locations in Scandinavia and Mexico.” https://moderjordshave.dk/svedehytte/

Monday 21 March

10h Invisibledrum: The Witch Trails. Project presentation. Free

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The Witch Trails Project proposes an artistic discourse about our reciprocal relationship with nature and the medicinal practices of herb-craft. It explores people’s relationships with ecology, ethnobotany, popular storytelling, history, and magic. It seeks to reimagine history, embody knowledge through neo-pharmacopeias, movement, herb craft, and practices of magic. The project is rooted in the historical archives of witch trials from Finnmark. The artists involved are; Nazare Soares, Amalia Fonfara, Marita Solberg, and Jessica Ullevålseter

Invisibledrum is an artistic research platform investigating holistic practices and spiritual technologies within the field of art and new ecologies. We study animistic practices within transdisciplinary fields of knowledge, encompassing amongst others the arts, creative ecologies, technology, embodied cognition, healing practices, speculative design, herbology, and ethnobotany. https://invisibledrum.com/

12h Marita Isobel Solberg: in my waterdreams / i mine vanndrømmer / mu čáhcenieguin. Series of performances in 4 parts. Free

Series of 4 performance in parts:

Sunday 20 March
10h
12h
Monday 21st March
12h
Tuesday 22nd March. World Water Day
12h

15h  Film Screening: Water Altars. Curated by Invisibledrum. 150 DKK

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First day of winter.  Christine Linnea.  Island.  2022. 6:41min

The first day of winter is a sensual poetic portrait of a woman in union with the pristine Icelandic landscape and its elements. It is a visual statement, insisting on beauty and female embodied expression in communion with nature. The first day of winter captures gracefully and intuitively a woman moving in circles and flowing with the forces through the first day of winter.  Thanks to NES artist residency, Iceland. 

Christine Linnea was born in the North of Denmark. She is a choreographer, dancer, singer/songwriter & medicine woman.  She has been walking with ritual theatre & visual art in Denmark, somatic dance & performance writing in England, organic farming & meditation in Japan and conscious sexuality & massage in Berlin before travelling to South America to embark on a spiritual journey with plant medicines from within various indigenous tribes and their traditions. She holds a BA in Choreography from Dartington College of Arts (Dartington, England) including a one year Erasmus exchange at the MA choreography program Ernst Busch (Berlin, Germany) – besides this, she spent 6 months in Japan studying the relationship between Body & Environment at the Butoh Body Weather farm and an extended time studying the relationship between Art & Eros in the environment of Schwelle7 Berlin. www.droemmesalen.dk

Concept, Choreography & Performance by Christine Linnea. Cinematography and montage by Léa Molinier

Becoming. Eva Bakkeslett. UK 4.45 min Video

A short film about the transformational flow of the river Dart.

I sit and watch the dance of leaves as they leave their places of origin and swirl onto the surface of the running river.  They get caught by the whirling water and brought into spirals that merge with other spirals.  A mesmerising performance, a dance with no beginning and no end. 
 ”Pattern and structure emerge as we connect to one another”. Margaret Wheatley and Mayon Kellner Rogers: A Simpler Way

Glimpse. Eva Bakkeslett. UK, 5 min Video. 

A short glimpse of the life of a puddle in the middle of a forest track.

Eva Bakkeslett is an artist, filmmaker, cultural activist and curator. Through her work, she conveys connections between nature and culture as a living organism. Communication across species boundaries, bacterial cultures and fermentation as a process and metaphor is central to her work and disseminated in the form of socially engaged and participatory projects. . www.evabakkeslett.com
agencyofimagination.org

Earth is singing. Sophie Louise Pedersen. Denmark 2020, 5 min Video

Cinematography by Josefine Thornberg-Thorsøe.

‘Earth is singing’ is a 4 minutes video and is filmed outside of Nexø on Bornholm in august 2020. In the video, a vessel of porcelain is dissolving in water and gently moved across my body and leaving marks with porcelain slip. I create vessels to mirror how the container of our body relates to our home on planet earth and the importance of sustaining a rich, nutritious soil inside and outside of our bodies to create an environment for growth and to sustain ourselves

Sophie Louise Pedersen is a ceramic artist and teacher. She has a BA from KADK on Bornholm where she studied the craft of ceramics. Her artistic practice is an exploration of the connection between the body and the immediate surroundings and how these are in constant dialogue and negotiation. She creates sculptural objects and functional ware using traditional ceramic techniques to explore form, sensations, feelings and performative ways of working and exhibiting clay. https://www.instagram.com/sophielouisepedersen/

Canto Al Agua. János Gábor, 2021. 5 min video

On the occasion of #WorldWaterDay, in the heart of Sierra de Guadarrama (Spain), János Gábor offered an intimate prayer for the spirit of the Eresma river, while tuning in to all the toning prayers held that same day across the world. János Gábor/Juan Gabriel Gutiérrez is an endurance artist and sound alchemist. For more than two decades he has been exploring the vibrational qualities of sound and its use as a vehicle for communication and transmutation, as well as the liminal properties of the moving image. Themes like otherness, sensory deprivation, transcendence, mediumship, ancestral and primal knowledge are constants in his work. https://www.instagram.com/janosgabor/

Water Altars & Neo Pilgrimages in Algarve. Nazaré Soares, 2022. 10 min film

Documentation of the research project When the Spell is Broken in Portugal: The Moura is a feminine element associated with beauty, hidden in the centre of the earth. They live in streams, fountains, caves and stones, often in the form of snakes/serpents that ask to be disenchanted. She is associated with Melusina. The relationship with the water is very strong, as a sanctification of great importance, as well as the emotion that accompanied the enchanting process.

Nazaré Soares is an artist and curator mainly working with animism & spiritual technologies within contexts of contemporary art & new ecologies. She works around notions of neo-pharmacopoeias, geomancy, invisible architectures, and magic engineering. Her practice interweaves, psychoacoustic and cinematic spaces, speculative design and performance arts, incubating spaces for ritual, and incubation means. www.nazaresoares.com

16.30h Viola La Spina: Tea and Yin. Fire & water ritual. 150 DKK

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What’s the first vision you get, from the words ‘water’ and ‘fire’? We welcome you to come and sit in circle, while the campfire brings our water to a boil. Sitting in ritual with plant medicine, we open up to new dimensions and understandings. Grounding and uplifting, we sit still, open and receptive, ready to listen and receive, in deep meditation. We will be like water, and surrender fully into delicious shapes, to create more fluidity in our fascia, our internal rivers (meridians, as they are called in TCM)

Viola has recently returned, after living over a decade in Australia, to her family home in Thy, DK. Viola and her small family, has made the conscious decision to let go of the busy city life, and embrace a slower life, in deep connection to nature. After teaching yoga for almost a decade, Viola has spent the last 3-4 years studying shamanism, breath work, manifestations, sitting in circles, rituals, and tea ceremonies. https://www.layoga.com.au/ 

“I am so excited to combine, all of these ancient practices and tools, designed to increase connections to the conscious field, all around us”.

Tuesday 22 March.  WORLD WATER DAY

11h Jane Folsted: water ceremony. Free

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On the Wolrd Water Day grandmother Jane Folsted will guide a water ceremony to be in gratitude and communion of all waters- Feel free to bring a small bottle of water from a place in nature that you care about, maybe your little sacred place? It can be water from a stream, a lake, from the sea or rainwater. If you do not have the opportunity to fetch water in nature, it may also be from your tap.

“I have lived 68 years and have walked the shamanistic path for the past 35 years. I have been guided with great gratitude by Grandmothers, medicine women, and Shamans who have generously shared their wisdom and traditions and invited me into the circle around the water and the sacred fire. Countless ceremonies have been shared with indigenous peoples, from different cultures around the Earth. For over 20 years I have been the guardian of Mother Earth’s garden, a small course place in North Jutland – where we have held countless spiritual gatherings in the circle, with emphasis on our connection with the living nature. Since 2003, I have led numerous ceremonial sweat lodges here in Mother Earth’s garden and in various locations in Scandinavia and Mexico.” www.moderjordshave.dk

12h Marita Isobel Solberg: in my waterdreams / i mine vanndrømmer / mu čáhcenieguin. Series of performances in 4 parts. Free

Series of 4 performance in parts:

Sunday 20 March
10h
12h
Monday 21st March
12h
Tuesday 22nd March. World Water Day
12h

15h Film Screening: MANAVAI by Tribute Earth. 150 DKK

MANAVAI is a World Water Gathering – a self-organizing movement of culture, wisdom and science united by water. We believe it is possible to restore and structure the waters within and outside our bodies. Our Ancient Future depends on the merging of Spirit and Science, indigenous wisdom and unified physics. We are deeply committed to humanity re-establishing a sensitive relationship with water. To be intimate with this simple fact: Water is the substance that animates every facet of this world. Water Is Life and We Are Water.

Tribute Earth is a 501c3 nonprofit transmedia platform based in Miami, Florida, USA. We provide access to ancestral wisdom and biocultural regenerative projects for the wholeness of our present and future generations. Our work and sharings are deeply rooted in direct experience, collaborations based on a real and present relationship, and true passion. We also walk, alongside our audience, in this same journey, living this way of life, in alignment with the values we put forth. We reconnect with the feeling that everything and everyone is one interdependently, that we come from the same origin connected through biodiversity. We use the latest advances in technology and interweave it with the wisdom rooted in our origins to foster an Ancestral New Science. We re-establish our relationship with Mother Earth by returning and tuning with the deepest of the unified field that contains us. We believe that art has the ability to move the Spirit, transcending rationality to feel the spiritual hidden behind the appearance of the senses. https://linktr.ee/tribute.earth

Ancestral Wisdom . Tribute Earth (We Are Water We Are One & MANAVAI~World Water Gathering) Colombia, Perú, México, North America, Spain, Russia… 2020-21. 22 min Video.

Spiritual leaders, scientists, and change agents from around the globe come forth to share an important message for survival of humanity’s present and future. Discover ancient wisdom and oral transmission from indigenous tribes and lineages around the world. Drink from the fountain of knowledge as we share creation stories, parables, and sacred teachings from wisdom keepers, elders, shamans, and water protectors. ​Commune with the sacred voices of water from Sami, Amazonian, Mexican, Lakotas, Arhuaco and many more.

Healing with water. Tribute Earth (MANAVAI~World Water Gathering). 2020-21. 16:09 min video.

Missing Water_Patricia Furtado (Artist and filmmaker: Founder of Acqua Mater), Javier Gonzalez (Sound Water Therapist), Marcelo Roque (Physiotherapist and Water Therapy Instructor), Natalia Chaverri (Physiotherapist and Watsu & Yoga Instructor), Maria Ornelas (Janzu Aqua Relax Instructor), JanZu-Todos Somos Agua Short Documentary_Maria Ornelas

Territorio Sagrado. Milena Zuluaga~Jaual Films, Colombia (In production). 5:18min Video

En Flor Maria Ogarí, Embera Eyábida indigenous social leader, Virgelina Calderón, former FARC guerrilla, Miyela Riascos, Afro-Colombian social leader, Mayra Hernández, LGTBI community leader, Diana Gómez, ex-paramilitary, Isabel Zuleta, defender of environmental and human rights. Six women from different corners of Colombia who, from their leadership and defence of the territory they inhabit, fight for their people, rivers, forests and human rights. In a ritual act in the Arenal River Basin, in San Rafael, eastern Antioquia, this group of women listen to the call of the river, the heartbeat of the soul of the Earth. They come together to enter the depths of their memories, heal the wounded past, stories that meanders through time cleansing the Sacred Lands of their bodies, minds and spirits. Their voices rise to the heart of the sky and shake in the geography of their memories. They are life, death and rebirth, they are their own medicine, they are the shadows of their past and the light of their present. They are the voices of many Colombian women, they are the voice of Mother Earth, who cries out her pain in them to heal them, to heal herself and give birth to a new time.

Aguadeiras. Cris Marcondes and Inês Sambas. Tribute Earth (MANAVAI~World Water Gathering) Arts and New Ecologies. Portugal. 13:13 min video. 

The work researches experimentation in the body of ancestral records of cultural memory that Brazilian dancer/choreographer Cris Marcondes carries, in “conversation” with a Portuguese female ancestral figure: the water-bearing woman. A dive in the gesture, in the ancestral voices, and in the waters. Movements permeated by chants, drums and prayers that bring us to the liquid universes of the body. Tracing the winding paths of the water, crossing portals, borders, fountains, at the threshold of the fall and the duality of existence, where the sweet becomes salty and where the water of the river can be a single drop.

Designing Regenerative Cultures. Tribute Earth (We Are Water We Are One & MANAVAI~World Water Gathering). worldwide 2020-2021. 13:17 min video

Exploring the transition from the era of scarcity and separation, to the era of abundance, community and reciprocity with our planet. Scientists, activists, and experts say that we must change our narrative and ask ourselves the right questions, integrating the “human” variable within it to understand that we are all one and that we must return to live in reciprocity to develop a regenerative culture.

Daniel Wahl (Designing regenerative cultures, Spain), Karuna Warren (Water Now, USA), Jamaica Stevens (Social Architec-weaver-Regenerative Cultures, USA), Glenn Edley (Ocean Spirit, New Zeland)

Arts and New Ecologies ~ 1. Tribute Earth in collaboration with Invisibledrum (MANAVAI~World Water Gathering). Worldwide 2020-2021. 8:05 min video

Dive In… The Outdoor Performance no.10 Tal Eshed (Artist, Therapist, Healer) Tal Eshed, Leonel Vasquez (Sound Artist) Music Nagene Wuaca_Txana Ikakuru (Yawanawa) www.amazonalling.org Camissa (the place of sweet waters) from Gershan Lombard. FreeMan LoTS (Lover of the Sun) ( the Khoi Khoi and the San; South Africa

Venue: Kirsten Kjærs Museum &RÅ RO

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Raaro_rawpeace Lise Hovesen
New Frontiers: Shepherding meets science in the field at
Kirsten Kjærs Museum

Kirsten Kjærs Museum is a private museum in northwestern Jutland. It is built around a large collection of paintings and drawings by Kirsten Kjær (1893-1985). The museum, so far the only Danish art museum for a female artist, has about 10,000 guests on an annual basis.

The current building stock is the result of 40 years of “budding”. The originally modest smallholding has today developed into a labyrinthine body with an associated exhibition space, where changing exhibitions are arranged with invited artists, established as well as upcoming. The surrounding nature is part of what Kirsten Kjærs Museum can offer its guests. In 2010, a concert hall with space for 150 people was inaugurated. The hall is decorated with wooden floors, which also makes it very suitable for performance and dance-choreographic projects.

Since 2020, RÅ RO has been located at the neighboring property. Also, a former smallholding, which once more has become a habitat for co-creation with the permaculture garden, horses, pigs, sheep, and chickens. This is in the spirit of Harald and John, the founders of KKM, who wanted to create a monastery-style art collective and cherished the indigenous farmer culture. Their mottos were ‘Love and Hardwork’ and ‘be yourself.

RÅ RO ^ Raw Peace ^ (Lise Hovesen) facilitates connections, earth – care, and self-care in the landscape of Thy in Northern Denmark. Contemporary Art and Culture meets Wellness-wellbeing / Healthcare / Therapeutic practices. Personal development in nature. The modern human connected with ancestral wisdom.

RÅ RO and KKM are currently collaborating on conservation grazing around a Sculpture Park, the development of a new artist residency program in Shepherds Wagons located in the extensive grounds, and seminars in conjunction with Invisible Drum.

https://www.kkmuseum.dk/

Address: Gamle Aalborgvej 22, Langvad, Frøstrup 7741. Denmark