ØER

Viborg Musiksal
Gravene 25
8800 Viborg

September 8. – 12.

OPENING HOURS
Tue 8 Sept — 17:00–18:15
Wed 9 Sept — 10:00–12:00 & 15:30–18:15
Thu 10 Sept — 10:00–12:00 & 15:30–18:15
Fri 11 Sept — 09:00–14:00 & 15:30–17:00
Sat 12 Sept — 10:00–11:15 & 13:30–14:45

ARTIST TALK: Tue 8 Sept, 18:30 at PLASTIC

ØER – FREE ENTRANCE
Visitors can book a free time slot for Øer from 8–12 September. Sessions are available throughout the day, with a maximum of 20 tickets per time slot.
Advance booking is recommended.

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Øer is an installation, where visitors are invited into an audiovisual experience focused on biological and cultural diversity.
Øer unfolds through sound, image, and movement. Microscopic organisms drift across surfaces, gather in clusters, divide, disappear. Scales shift continuously. What first appears abstract gradually reveals itself as living matter. Microscopic footage of marine organisms forms the visual foundation of the work. Magnified beyond recognition, these forms become landscapes, constellations, fleeting architectures. Their movements are slow and persistent, unfolding according to rhythms that remain largely unnoticed.
The space is carried by sound. Sea and song drift through it in fragments, surfacing and receding like currents. Ancestral voices return altered, folded into a man’s song of exile and a woman’s account of a journey between islands.
The title “Øer”, suggests places separated by water. Yet islands are shaped by currents, migrations, and exchanges that exceed their borders. What appears isolated is sustained by connections that remain largely invisible.
Presented within Viborg Musiksal, the installation creates a temporary environment for attention. Visitors enter a shared situation where familiar scales lose their certainty. Hidden worlds come briefly into view. What seemed distant appears closer.

ARTISTS BIO
Domenico Mannelli is an Italian composer, performer, and sound artist based in Aarhus. Working across music, poetry, and performance, he creates immersive works shaped by encounters between places, languages, and traditions. His practice often returns to questions of ecology, migration, and belonging. He is the founder of Ensemble Advena.

Thorstein Robert is a Danish visual artist working with photography, film, and digital collage. His work is guided by a close attention to natural forms, movements, and cycles. Through observation, play, and image-making, he explores ways of seeing the familiar anew.

PRODUCED BY 
Ensemble Advena and PLASTIC Collective
Domenico Mannelli, Martina Scarpelli, Vela Klitgaard and Lana Tankosa Nikolic

SUPPORTED BY
The Danish Arts Foundation, The Danish Composers’ Society, Viborg Municipality, The Animation Workshop – VIA University College and UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts