Expanding Landscapes & Impossible Futures
Dates & Times:
Sat, Jan 31, 2025, 5:00 pm
Venue: Schwartz School of the Arts at Augsburg University
Cost: Free with registration
Augsburg University’s Schwartz School of the Arts is hosting an evening of narrative, performing, and visual arts that explore the impact of climate change on our physical and psychological worlds. This event, part of the 2025 Great Northern Festival, will feature immersive, multi-sensory projects. Attendees can expect installations, live performances, and interactive experiences in various mediums. The exhibitions and performances will run concurrently throughout the evening, allowing guests to move through at their own pace.
Projects:
Cold Spell
Through strumming, singing, moving, and creating, audiences become participants in a collaborative music making ritual where together we embody and imagine musical futures in light of a chaotic, changing climate, helping us to consider radical care and purposeful action in our g/local community.
Winter Interlude
In Winter Interlude, audiences are surrounded by a revolving sequence of outdoor visual and aural experiences performed by artists incorporating evocative music, movement, text and technology illuminating themes of climate, nature, and our urban environment.
Dandelion
In Dandelion, participants use ink made from plants grown in Augsburg’s greenhouse and handmade postcards from recycled paper to paint and write messages of hope to their future selves to inspire advocacy and love for our planet.
Glittering Scenes
During the first half of Glittering Scenes, writers respond to artist-led prompts with an emphasis on vivid imagery, playful forms, and wintry themes; in the second half, writers are invited to share their work at a warm, supportive, open-mic performance.
Sounding, Snowing, Knowing
In Sounding, Snowing, Knowing performers will present a series of short, improvised sonic vignettes, each corresponding to a different image of winter scapes mapped into graphic notation, to reflect on the ways we understand ourselves, and our environments through sound.
No Thank You! (2025)
"No Thank You!" is a tapestry suspended from the ceiling, crafted from fused recycled plastic bags. This artwork transforms everyday waste into a vibrant and captivating piece. As it sways gently, it prompts introspection on the excesses of capitalism and the often-overlooked environmental consequences of our consumption habits.
Godai, the great 5
"Godai" the great 5, represents the 5 elements: earth, water, fire, wind, and the void.
each element relies on each other to find balance within our lives and with others. the "void" is the empty space, it is stillness - silence. it becomes the door to connect to oneness…
Jenny Hanson
Curated virtual reality experiences that displace and disrupt the viewer - challenging what they know about environments and self.