Fotos: Franseska Mortensen
19. – 21. August 2025
EARTHBOUND 2025
– Soil & water – the sensuous fundaments for life
VI TILBYDER
EARTHBOUND er et interdisciplinært symposie, som sammenvæver kunst og videnskab for at skabe nye forestillinger om, hvordan vi som mennesker relaterer til verden. I 2025 var temaet ‘jord og vand’. Her inviterede vi deltagerne til at reflektere over vores sanselige relation med elementerne og undersøge feministisk viden i lyset af klimaets nødstilstand.
Som et opbrud med de traditionelle symposie-formater, er EARTHBOUND centreret omkring vidensdeling og samskabelse i ét længerevarende event, som engagerer både intellektet og sanserne.
Programmet består af hovedtalere, workshops, debatter, performanceuddrag, ritualer og delesessioner.
Læs mere om visionen bag EARTHBOUND her.
What happened in 2025?
Watch this short documentary to get a glimpse of Earthbound 2025.
”I am here at Earthbound, because questions about how we relate to the natural world, to nature, to landscapes and to ourselves and each other are some of the most critical questions of our time.”
Andreas Roepstorff – Aarhus UNIVERSITY, AIAS
THE PROGRAM OF 2025
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. Read more.
KEYNOTE
by Minna Salami
How can we reimagine knowledge in a time of ecological and epistemic crisis?
Minna Salami will introduce The Kaleidoscopic Method: a way of thinking that embraces multiplicity and interconnectedness. Here, knowledge is not treated as a fixed destination, but as a patterned unfolding like the turn of a kaleidoscope.
Her session invites participants to attune to the elemental intelligences of soil and water, weaving intellectual reflection with participatory and sensory inquiry.
WORKSHOPS
The workshop program of EARTHBOUND 2025 offers six parallel workshops that invite participants into immersive, sensorial encounters with soil, water, microbes, and mud.
Each participant joins one workshop, which continues over the course of the three days to allow for deeper engagement.
SPEAKERS & ARTISTS
Writer, editor, and co-director of the Dark Mountain Project. Author of After Ithaca: Journeys in Deep Time and 52 Flowers That Shook My World: A Radical Return to Earth. She has co-created many immersive, dramaturgical events and teachings, based on reconnection with the more-than-human world and mythology of place. She lives on the salty edge of East Anglia. . Read more.
Queer visual artist, storyteller, world builder, singer-priestess, public speaker, designer, researcher, educator, writer, and curator. 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. Read more.
Visual artist, art reviewer, independent curator, cultural manager, political activist and mentor. Starting from a deep personal interest, her artistic practice focuses on social, economical/commercial, and political structures. She is also the project manager of Secret Hotel’s Space for Earth Wisdom.
Performance artist, dramaturg, nature terapist and artistic director of Secret Hotel and Earthwise Residency.
Christine Fentz creates participatory and sensory performances in collaboration with the more-than-human, e.g. Walking Lecture on Ants, Under Forest and The Game About H2O.
EXPERIENCES
EARTHBOUND offers a range of artistic experiences that all explore SOIL and WATER through different methods: A performance, an installation, a staged dinner and a ritual-performance.
Read more about the works and artists here.
LOCATION AND ACCOMMODATION
The symposium took place at two different venues:
- 19 – 20 August: Himmelbjerggården (Ry, near Aarhus)
Himmelbjergvej 11, 8680 Ry, Denmark - 21 August: Moesgaard Campus – Aarhus University (Aarhus)
Moesgård Allé, 8270 Højbjerg, Denmark
If you have any questions about EARTBOUND 2025, please contact earthbound@secrethotel.dk
Fotos: Franseska Mortensen – Earthbound 2025
EARTHBOUND 2025 was organised by the performance theatre Secret Hotel in collaboration with:
EARTHBOUND 2025 was supported by:
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