About

The annual Wanås Art & Words festival explores literature and ideas related to ecology and more-than-human worlds that presently inspire contemporary art practitioners. The festival is composed of both indoor and outdoor activities and intended as a day for all the senses. Stories that shape our relationship with the planet are shared through performances, readings, talks, workshops, and nature experiences. These propose a profound engagement with other species and nature, as well as with forms of situated knowledge, traditions, and each other. Art & Words premiered in 2023 with the title Mycocosm, focusing on fungi and mycelium networks, and continued in 2024 under the title Jellyfish & Deep Dreams, exploring intuitive connections to the sea and animal consciousness.

PROGRAM

The third edition 2025 festival will be curated with curator and author Filipa Ramos, whose writing and curatorial work has focused on animals, ecology and technology. Entitled The Forest Sings at Night, the 2025 edition of the festival celebrates the night, and darkness, as atmospheres in which the relationship between humans and other life forms can be rethought and invented through sound and movement. Considering how darkness deepens sensory experiences, connects us to circadian rhythms, and proposes non-linear and cyclical concepts of time, the festival revisits forms of ancestral and indigenous knowledge embedded in the stars in the sky, and proposes ways to live in kinship with other species. Talks, performances, concerts, immersive experiences, and artworks create modes of tuning and attuning to the nightly realm of humans and nature, opening up the possibility of a transformative way to understand and relate to the darkness that every day surrounds us.

Bus will leave from/to Copenhagen. Please check in for link later in spring.