Emma K. Thomas

Future Uncertain was a 12-hour, 40-kilometer walk I made, on 24 September 2021, as part of Metropolis Walking Landscapes.

This project, conceived by Københavns Internationale Teater, was part of a three-year project to engage people, via the medium of art and performance, with our changing landscape in the context of ecological crisis.

In Walking Landscapes, the second part of the project, 130 artists in twelve different districts (kommune) across Denmark walked for twelve hours each, making live webcasts once an hour, as they investigated, reflected upon or performed different aspects of the landscape they were travelling through.

My walk reflected the work I had done from 2019-2021 in producing withNature2020 – an international collaborative artwork drawing attention to the biodiversity crisis.

I chose literary excerpts to present along the way, and sought to communicate the way in which making withNature2020 had influenced the way in which I see the landscape.

The books I chose were in English, reflecting the literature and landscape I know best, but I propose that they are just as relevant to the Danish modern industrial agricultural landscape.

See a resume video and the livecasts, as they were sent out, here:

https://www.metropolis.dk/emma-k-thomas-aarhus/

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