19. – 21. August 2025
EARTHBOUND 2025
– Soil & water – the sensuous fundaments for life
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WE OFFER
EARTHBOUND 2025 is an interdisciplinary symposium that weaves together art and science to reimagine how we humans relate to the world. This year's theme—soil and water—invites participants to reflect on our sensuous relationships with these elements and explore feminist knowledge in the face of climate emergency.
Breaking away from traditional symposium formats, EARTHBOUND is centered around knowledge sharing and co-creation in one durational event that engages both intellect and senses.
The program consists of keynote speakers, workshops, debates, performance excerpts, rituals and sharing sessions.
The program will be in English.
The ticket includes vegan meals and the possibility to use our shuttle bus (between Aarhus and Himmelbjerggården)
Read more about the vision behind EARTHBOUND here.
”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
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.
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.
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.
Program
The schedule may be subject to change.
All meals are included with the ticket.
Breakfast for those staying at Himmelbjerggården:
Wednesday: 8.00 – 9.00 AM
Thursday: 7.00 – 8.00 AM
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 takes place at two different venues:
- 19 – 20 August: Himmelbjerggården (Ry, near Aarhus)
Himmelbjergvej 11, 8680 Ry, Denmark
The first two days of the symposium will be held at Himmelbjerggården in Ry. They offer accommodation in single and double rooms, and it is also possible to stay in tents or shelters at a lower cost.
Otherwise, you can commute with our daily shuttle bus from and to Aarhus (see TRANSPORT). - 21 August: Moesgaard Campus (Aarhus)
Moesgård Allé, 8270 Højbjerg, Denmark
The third day of EARTHBOUND takes place at Moesgaard Campus (Aarhus University). Participants who stay overnight at Himmelbjerggården can use the free shuttle bus (see TRANSPORT).
NB! Accommodation at Himmelbjerggården is NOT included in the ticket price.
Click here to book your accommodation directly with Himmelbjerggården:
DO I HAVE TO PARTICIPATE ALL 3 DAYS?
No, you can buy a ticket for the full 3-day experience, or choose between the first two days at Himmelbjerggården or the last day at Moesgaard Campus.
TRANSPORT
We have arranged a free shuttle bus between Aarhus and Himmelbjerggården every morning and evening on 19th and 20th of August. Also on the morning of the 21st going from Himmelbjerggården to Moesgaard Campus. You can book the bus, when you book the ticket.
FUNDED SCHOLARSHIP TICKETS
We have a small portion of funded scholarship tickets to support participants in financial need. The scholarship offers full access to the 3-day symposium and you only cover 600 DKK as a registration fee. Accommodation is not included in the price, but we offer a free shuttle bus from Aarhus. (See TRANSPORT)
To request a scholarship, please reach out to us via email: earthbound@secrethotel.dk
CONTACT
If you have any questions about EARTBOUND 2025, please contact earthbound@secrethotel.dk
EARTHBOUND 2025 was organised by the performance theatre Secret Hotel in collaboration with:
EARTHBOUND 2025 was supported by:
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