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Based in Copenhagen, Nana Francisca Schottländer (b. 1977, DK) works cross-aesthetically within the fields of choreography, performance, video and installation.
Central to her work is the use of the body as a living tool for research and creation.Her work often employs strategies of immersion, co-creation and long duration and draw inspiration from science and philosophy to create frameworks for developing embodied knowledge and reciprocal, co-creational explorations and exchanges.
Her work revolves around encounters and intra-actions with other-than-human entities and phenomena such as rocks, fungi cultures, tide, soil, wind, plants and entire geographical areas with their inherent lifeforms and dynamics - in recent years focusing on landscapes heavily marked by human intervention such as extraction, production, waste management and landfilling.
The works are often formed in ongoing serial explorations of particular themes: Each work series has its own logic, strategies and aesthetics and is deeply rooted in both theory, literature, locational awareness and personal material. Each manifestation within a series of works is a micro laboratory for research and mutual exploration, creation and exchange with the audience and with the place, where it is situated.
The outcomes span choreographic works, performative installations, choreographed events, video works, exposed inhabitations, spatial installations, text, sound and performative interventions in public spaces and are conceptualized site specifically, employing strategies of immersion, co-creation and long duration.
Alongside her own artistic practice she collaborates regularly with other artists as performer, choreographer, dancer and conceptualizer as well as in a curatorial practice.
She also regularly shares her practice through teaching and giving workshops. Among other places at:
Metropolis Residency Programme
Danish National School of Performing Arts (MA in Choreography)
Roskilde University (Performance Design)
Copenhagen University (Theatre and Performance Studies)
Nana Francisca Schottländer is a member of BKF, KK-Art, UKK
From 2021 - 24 she was an Associate artist of IN SITU, the European platform for artistic creation in public space, in the frame of the project (UN)COMMON SPACES, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Her work has been supported by the Danish Art Foundation in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
