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What relational and performative possibilities lie in lighting and maintaining a campfire? The Campfire Project is an exploration of a relational aesthetic immersive performing arts form that takes place in nature. It is also an exploration of different artistic disciplines and practices, from very different perspectives and cultures, which share the aim of challenging the capitalization and industrialization of nature. Through the practice we explore how the artists can serve as a facilitators of change and immersion, rather than performing or leading in a more traditional way. The Campfire Project explores the use of conversations, immersive sound events, text readings, choreographic investigations, material explorations, and various concrete/physical and digital activities with and without participants in nature at three different locations in Norway: Arendal (Raet National Park), Oslo (Østmarka), and Øvre Årdal (Jotunheimen National Park/Utladalen Landscape Protection Area), with the aim of fascilitating deep connection between humans and the other than human environment in a post-human approach. The project is supported by Norwegian Arts Council, Agder County and Performing Arts South.

The project is financed by Arts Council Norway