Janne Schäfer and Kristine Agergaard

The mixed media and performative works by artist duo J&K / Janne Schäfer and Kristine Agergaard explore the creative potential underlying the modelling of realities and problematizes concepts such as truth production, historiography, nature-culture and self-identity. Their recent performative, often site-specific and participatory works are focusing on intelligence of matter and re-negotiations between performer, audience, object and stage. Putting forward a radical notion of performativity, all aspects of the artwork - site, materials and artists - are regarded as story-tellers, co-creators and collaborators. By persistently challenging the separation between the human and the nonhuman, J&K wish to dismantle the notion of fixed self-identity and human superiority.

For Hosting Lands J&K are developing a site specific spa installation and performative work with the focus on collaboration with water bodies. This work is developed and performed with a group of young local collaborators and water experts. The work is growing out of and is majorly informed by Vandvenner, a series of art-pedagogic workshops and collaborative enquiries with water and children as experts in more-than-human communication, which J&K are undertaking as part of Hosting Lands. Vandvenner is taking place in collaboration with various bodies of water at Kirsten Kjærs Museum in the heathlands of Thy, at Kunsthal 44Møen and at Oxer onboard Svartlöga in Grenaa.