Øbunden, 2021
Artist walk
Øbunden explored different perspectives on what it means to feel connected to a landscape. Along the route from Bølshavn to Årsdale, Emma meets twelve individuals from eastern Bornholm and asks each of them to reflect on how they feel a sense of connection to the Bornholm landscape. Together, they attempt to move beyond a romanticized view of the landscape and nature, and instead delved into how we live in coexistence with the landscape - as part of one another - for better or worse. What creates this sense of connection, and how can we understand it?
Emma met, among others, the fisherman, the brewer, the nature pedagogue, the priest, and the amateur archaeologist, but also non-human beings. For how does one feel connected when one is a 300-year-old oak tree, witnessing the ever-changing flow of everything? The exercise is about empathizing with other life forms. To listen attentively. To imagine what they might express, and how it might sound, feel, and resonate if we were attentive and patient enough to notice how the rhythms of the landscape.