Kulturmødet Mors Kunsthal Spritten at Vildnisset

Kunsthal Spritten returns to the Kulturmødet Mors festival. Once again, we’re pitching our pegs and welcoming you into our plant-dyed tent, itself a work of art bearing the title If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give if your heart, created by Danish-Moroccan artist Maria Nørholm Ramouk (b. 1991).

Commissioned by Kunsthal Spritten, the work is an upcycled tent that Ramouk has transformed with plant-dyed textile offcuts and other elements. For Ramouk, the concept of time as a resource is a recurring aspect of her artistic practice. Plant dyeing is a time-consuming method in itself, and furthermore the work invites visitors to settle in and take their time inside the tent: time to sense, time to be, and time to reflect.

The work was created in collaboration with Cirkus Panik Teltmageri with support from the Danish Arts Foundation, Spar Nordfonden, Knud Højgaards Fond, Erik Birger Christensens Fond, Ege Carpets, Gabriel Textile and Elis.

The Experience of Care: Shared Reading

Together with the social organisation Læseforeningen (The Reading Society), Kunsthal Spritten focuses on the experience and role of care in literature. Through shared reading, we aim to create a space to think and act from, all while contemplating a variety of literary voices.

Thursday 21.08. Kl. 14.00-15.00

Johanne A. Stoffersen - Fountain

For Kunsthal Spritten, artist Johanne A. Stoffersen (b. 1994) has created Fountain – a lavish, baroque-style fountain. With its red palette and rich detailing, the work radiates euphoric abundance. The artist will perform at Fountain on two occasions, treating passers-by to aperitifs from the fountain itself.

Thursday 21.08, 15.30-16.00 and 17.00-17.30 at Kulturpladsen 

Young Nordic voices speak up

What matters to young people in the Nordic countries right now? What gives them hope, and what keeps them awake at night? And what makes them want to speak up and use their voice to create change?

Find out when courageous young speakers from across the Nordic region take over Vildnisset with honest speeches and urgent messages about growing up in the Nordics. Presented in collaboration with Talerskolen Røst and Kulturmødet Mors.

Time: Thursday 21.08, 15.30–16.15

Kvæðakórinn

Kvæðakórinn is a ten-person Icelandic artist collective. They take audiences on a journey into our shared Nordic past through forgotten Icelandic songs, rhymes and poems written by farmers and sailors who braved Iceland’s harsh weather and crossed the Atlantic to build the Icelandic society we know today. Presented in collaboration with Kulturmødet Mors.

Time: Thursday 21.08, 18.00–18.45

Nordens urfolk

Meet two powerful voices from Indigenous Nordic communities for a conversation about opportunities, rights, culture and identity. The talk draws on the personal stories and histories of Nina Sikkersoq Kristoffersen and Elin Anna Labba. How might future challenges be addressed through their perspectives and experience? Presented in collaboration with Kulturmødet Mors.

Panel: Nina Sikkersoq Kristoffersen, author, actor and activist / Elin Anna Labba, author and journalist

Time: Friday 21.08, 09.30–10.15

FRICTION: The politics of beauty in a changed world

What we consider beautiful is never simply a matter of taste; it reflects issues of power. In a world in flux, where climate, inequality and technology are reshaping our lives, aesthetics becomes more than form and colour. It becomes a tool for maintaining – or transforming – our ideas of what the future should look like. Presented in collaboration with Nicklas Larsen, Majken Overgaard and Kulturmødet Mors.

Panel: Jacob Remin, artist, engineer & designer / Lina Hashim, l artist / Shazia Khan, visual storyteller

Time: Friday 21.08, 10.45–11.30

The Carden Caretaker

With the screening of The Garden Caretaker, we ask: what if we listened to a place before we build? This documentary follows an experiment at a construction site where six Danish artists move in and give voice to all the things we so often overlook. The Garden Caretaker is presented in collaboration with NXT bureau.

Time: Friday 21.08, 12.00–13.00

Can we build for more than just human beings?

We are in the midst of a biodiversity crisis, making it more crucial than ever to build for more species than just the human race. In this panel talk, we explore how art’s alert, engaging and investigative approach can contribute to the green transformation of our cities. Presented in collaboration with NXT bureau.

Panel: Arendse Krabbe, artist / Lars Autrup, architect MAA & Director, Akademisk Arkitektforening / Madeleine Kate McGowan, Artistic Director, NXT / Peter Andreas Sattrup, Area Manager, NCC / Signe Cecilie Jochumsen, Co-director, KS Kunsthal Spritten

Time: Friday 21.08, 13.00–14.00

Arendse Krabbe - Lyttesituation i Vildnisset

We gather to listen to the site and to practise listening as an action. Artist Arendse Krabbe will assign participants a series of listening tasks on location, rooted in the idea that by listening, we humans can connect and merge with our surroundings.

Time: Friday 21.08, 15.00–16.00

Free, but registration required. Please note: only a few places left. Find the event on our programme page. 

Community singing in Vildnisset

Together with Kunsthal Spritten’s in-house conductor Niels W. Jacobsen, we’re once again inviting everyone to join us for two sessions of community singing in our tent in Vildnisset. The repertoire is selected from the Højskolesangbogen (The Folk High School Songbook), drawing on the Danish song tradition, including familiar stalwarts and more obscure songs. As always, Niels introduces the songs, and then we sing. Some of us will sing in tune – and we’ll all sing loudly.

Time: Friday 22.08, 16.45–17.25 and Saturday 23.08, 12.00–12.40

FRICTION: Greenland, Denmark and the colonial legacy: What’s the next step?

Denmark’s colonial history in Greenland is increasingly being addressed in art and culture. In recent years, many artists and institutions have turned their attention to power structures, conspicuous silences and historical inequalities, inviting audiences to see the past in a new light. Presented in collaboration with Nicklas Larsen, Majken Overgaard and Kulturmødet Mors.

Panel: Lotte Faarup, Artistic Director of the theatre Det Olske Orkester & the theatre laboratory Forsøgsstationen / Nina Sikkersoq Bibi Kristoffersen, art photographer / Sirí Paulsen, MA (Dramaturgy) & sound designer, Sialuk Productions

Time: Friday 21.08, 18.00–18.45

Johanne A. Stoffersen - Staged Dinner: Dinner Social 

Staged Dinner: Dinner Social is a performative dinner created by the artist Johanne A. Stoffersen (b. 1994) and developed in collaboration with Kunsthal Spritten. The work takes the form of a staged dinner where the table becomes the centre of a culinary performance in which servings reflect the current season.

Time: Friday 22.08, 20.00–22.00 at Holgersgade 1, Morsø Erhvervsråd, Byen

Ticket required. Limited capacity, sold on a first-come, first-served basis. Find the event on our programme page. Price: DKK 300.

Andrea Hejlskov 

What is Nordic animism? What do Norse and Nordic folk beliefs tells us? And how might these things help connect us to the earth in a time full of crises?

Andrea Hejlskov is an initiated völva (seeress) and has worked with Nordic witchcraft for 25 years. She has published books on the subjects, including Den store flugt, Vølve and Voluspa, and is also portrayed in the documentary Heks (Witch)

Time: Saturday 23.08, 13.30–14.30

The work was created in collaboration with Cirkus Panik Teltmageri with support from the Danish Arts Foundation, Spar Nordfonden, Knud Højgaards Fond, Erik Birger Christensens Fond, Ege Carpets, Gabriel Textile and Elis.