Artist Close By: Recent Episodes
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Artist Close By is about having the artist close to the life lived in rural areas. We have brought together a number of regional and international artists who are preoccupied with the future of rural areas. They live and work in small communities and work with the local cultures, crafts and traditions towards new visions for the future. In this podcast we will take you to the windy west coast of Denmark, so you can meet some of these artists.
Hele Landet is a company who works with social, organizational, and architectural constructions, that initiate and support local development, with the goal to create social balance and social cohesion.
Morten Mosgaard is a Danish site-specific sound designer working as a composer, theatrical producer, vocalist and project manager in the cultural field. Mosgaard artistic work is in continuous interaction with his engagement in bringing art to rural areas.
Filipa Francesco is an international choreographer from Portugal. Francesco is interested in multidisciplinary work and works on dance pieces that are created specially for the place and spaces where they are going to be performed.
Robbert van der Horst is dutch visual artist and performer who creates large scale artworks, interactive installations and performances aiming to evoke social interaction. He is interested in local building methods and the building knowledge found in the local population.
Meet the initiator of Artist Close By, artist Inge Agnete Tarpgaard. Tarpgaard creates playful works that balance reality and imagination. Graduated from the Department of Dramaturgy at Aarhus University and Dartington College of Arts in England. From 2017 resident in Velling, West Jutland.
Meet Marije Nie (NL), an allround theatrical performer, tap dancer, researcher and co-founder of Cross Pollination artistic research platform.
Meet artist Karen Bohøj. Bohøj traveled to Stadil-Vedersø to be present, meet the locals and to get to know the place as an outside anthropologist.
Meet your narrator Inge Agnete Tarpgaard, Projectleader Henk Keizer and some of locals from Stadil-Vedersø, who will tell you a little more about the place this project was happening.