Til Vægs

With increasing marginalization, urban gentrification and global environmental extraction, the urgency to find common ground beyond capitalist structures is more urgent than ever. In the conference Mirroring Places: art, ecology and the commons we will explore and interweave commoning practices in art, activism and urban ecology with a site-responsive conference at Til Vægs in the common housing area in Lundtoftegade, Copenhagen. The gathering will unfold through panels, practices and performative tools, shared between collaborators and audiences.

What are the narratives and perspectives revolving around urban development considering the intersecting ecological, social and urban crises? How can communities organise to take action that enable resistance and permeability in front of styrong gentrifying forces? How can land and memory play a part in the development of such movements? How can artistic gestures propose reflections and directions in such contexts?

At the gathering we will discuss art, ecology and commoning as three related approaches to take action against the overwhelming urban powers at play in gentrification, ecological extraction, stigmatization and racialisation today.

Program:

10:00 Welcome and intro

10:15 Commoning through art and the performative: 

- Rodrigo Andreolli & Louise Lassen Iversen - artist / curator talk

- Maj Horn, artist - workshop

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Commoning through ecology:

- Marina Bergen Jensen, professor and landscape architect at Københavns Universitet om regnvandsopsamling (SuDS)

- Marcella Arruda, curator and director, Cidade Precica De Voce – presentation

- Nana Francisca Shöttlander, choreographer and performer: Resting Lab / performance

15:00 Coffee

15:30 Commons towards social, environmental justice:

- Guilherme Wisnik, professor and architect (University of São Paulo) – talk & film screening

- Alice Grandoit-Šutka, Public Discourse Director, re:arc institute

- Silvia Federici

17:30 Camp fire ritual

The conference is created as a collaboration between artist Rodrigo Andreolli from Teat(r)o Oficina, São Paulo. Louise Lassen Iversen – artistic director at the art platform Til Vægs, Copenhagen, together with Kristine Samson – Associate Professor at Department of Communication and Arts and head of research in Environmental Humanities at Roskilde University.

The event is supported by Nordic Culture Point and is part of the CAFx program Slow.