RESEARCH CLUSTER Politics, Practicies and Publics:
Futurities of the Commons
”Through the my artistic research, which engages with my own family history, I have probed the underacknowledged history of one of the plurality of different cultures that have traditionally sustained the west Jutlandic heathlands, namely the “skøjere,” or, as they would also call themselves, “rejsende” – that is, travellers. This group, which contributed to the heathlands’ social ecologies in multiple ways and operated across the heath between the remotely located heath farms, is not necessarily thought of as indigenous to the heathlands because they were not sedentary. But I argue that we cannot account for the cultural specificities of the heath commons – or for the significance of their collapse in the modern era – without taking its travelling communities into account.”
Marie Kølbæk Iversen, PhD, is a visual artist and artistic researcher, whose interdisciplinary practice spans installation, video, and performance, often engaging with themes of temporality, memory, and ecological interconnectedness. Her work draws on scientific and mythological frameworks to explore the relationships between human and nonhuman entities. Through examinations of material phenomena such as colours, light, minerals, and patterns, Iversen probes the boundaries between the visible and the invisible, the real and the imaginative. Her research-based projects often involve collaboration with scientists, musicians, and other cultural practitioners, resulting in artworks that offer multilayered perspectives on both natural and cultural systems.
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