Performance: The Eggs

In The Eggs, a collaborative work by sculptor Therese Bülow and performance artist Faun Vium, the audience is invited aboard a story of solitude and dunes that are constantly changing shape. The audience does not merely sit and listen. They travel on the bus. They step out. They lift. Together, they carry heavy elements through the sand and towards the sea. There, they are placed as traces in the landscape.

The performance is performed by four amateur actors, four men with different stories.

The sculptures provide shelter from the wind, and sand gathers around them. A woven shell of willow and a polished mound of concrete, stones, and construction debris. A greeting to what already exists here. To the things that are preserved or left behind: landscapes, friendships, secrets, species, or old rubble. Placed as foreign bodies within a Natura 2000 protected area, they remind us of the relationship between the natural and the constructed, and of the paradox inherent in trying to preserve that which is in a constant state of change.

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About The Eggs

For Bringing In The Tide, Vium and Bülow are developing a performative and sculptural work that will be activated three times during the exhibition period. The audience is transported by tour bus through the landscape, ending at the beach by Blåvandshuk Lighthouse. The work explores some of the secrets hidden beneath the sand, both literally and speculatively

Drawing on the landscape of the Wadden Sea and the people and animals that inhabit it, the artists explore the relationship between place, body, and narrative. The work examines the tension between protection and the destruction that can be embedded within protection itself. Local residents take part in performing the work, in which the transformations of the landscape and human relationships are explored and reimagined through shared stories and collective actions.