"Shared Lansdcape" by Caroline Barneaud & Stefan Kaegi, extracts

From late afternoon to sunset, come spend a day in nature outside of towns and villages to explore the plains and forests of the region and discover seven artistic projects that are so many variations on the landscape. Swiss director Stefan Kaegi, from the German collective Rimini Protokoll, and artistic curator Caroline Barneaud have invited nine European artists to share their vision of the landscape. Musical sculptures, sound creations, choreographic audio tours, subverted picnics, and philosophical plays create an intense collective and participative sensory experience, inventing new pathways within the elements to enter the landscape, get lost in it, and find oneself again. The artists will create landscapes without restrictions, awaken your senses, take the measure of time and space, map out what can and cannot be perceived in situ. They will examine the relationship between humans and their environment and try, for the duration of this collective moment, to bind nature and culture in a different way in order to disappear into the polyphony of the living world. Pujaut will be the shared landscape for this European project. 

Shared Landscape is part of a larger project, Performing Landscapes, the result of a collaboration with institutions and production structures in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Austria, Slovenia, Germany, Switzerland, and France. Artists, cultural institutions, and scientists develop a reflection on the notions of art, landscape, and territory and draw a visible and invisible map of the different European places they visit, unveiling the spaces they share through the prism of arts and sciences. A different way of looking at and reinventing Europe together.