Gathering: Anabela Veloso – circled, around

[This event is for participants that attended the first performance circled at “Afgang 2022” exhibition April-May 2022]

Circled, around is the last part of the participatory-266-days durational performance initiated in circled. circled was an installation at “Afgang 2022” on April-May 2022 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, where visitors were invited to scoop some soil into a bag, take it and nurture it temporarily. circled, around is the moment that gathers the artist and the participants that took this score forward.

Speculating on possible relations created during this period and the meanings that soil might have gained, this gathering appears as a collective sharing of known, dreamt, or unthinkable ways of relating. Holding a fragment of soil, upholding the responsibilities that the gesture might request in the best way one knows, and returning it in a closing ceremony.

Anabela Veloso is an artist relocated from Portugal, living in Copenhagen/Malmö. Her current practice and research delve into relationality and the responsibilities within it – understanding where and how something lives to suggestively create, speak, and listen together. Anabela explores the self, the human, and the more-than-human as ecologies that expand circles of relations.

The admission is free to the event that takes place Wednesday 11 January 2023 at 17.00-18.30.