Purpose-driven parties, large-scale installations, and conversations on climate, consumption, identity, community, and belonging will form Roskilde Festival's Art & Activism programme.
Art and activism have become an increasingly central part of the programme at the independent, non-profit Danish festival.
This year, topics such as overconsumption, diversity, accessibility for minorities, and the potential of celebration as a form of protest are among the themes festival participants will encounter in the Art & Activism programme.
At Platform, Roskilde Festival’s stage for experimental hybrid formats, performance art is in focus.
Turkish artist Göksu Kunak, will present Hungry 2.0 blending video, pole dance, and bodybuilding to explore how the body can be transformed.
Festival participants can also experience the dance performance WIRED by Danish choreographer Marie Kaae, massive laser projections by British artist Matt Copson, the circus performance MANIFEST, created especially for Roskilde Festival, and drag karaoke.
Fifty tons of secondhand clothes will be piled high at the festival site in the art installation Return to Sender. Created by the Kenyan artist collective The Nest Collective, the artwork confronts festival participants with the grotesque waste landscapes that are all too common in low-income countries, highlighting the urgent need to rethink our consumption habits.
The same message is carried by British artist Jeremy Hutchinson, who haunts the festival as a textile zombie covered in dumped secondhand clothing in the performance Dead White Man.
Other artworks and events also highlight the strengths that emerge when navigating a world not always designed for everyone. This is a central theme in the art installation our voises carry futur dreams, that explores life with dyslexia. The artwork is created by Danish artist Julie Nymann, who also features with the sound installation Advantages of Being Dyslexic.
This theme is also explored by the Georgian queer collective Eau de Cologne. In their talk When Rave Becomes Political, they discuss life as LGBTQ+ individuals in a society marked by growing authoritarian tendencies. On top of that, they unleash the activist potential of partying through a live performance infused with ‘90s rave energy.
Meanwhile, throughout the year at Roskilde Festival’s camp site a new artwork, The Long Way Around, will be in place for five years.
Resembling a giant wheelchair ramp spiraling around the hill all the way to the top, it was created by the award-winning British artist Jesse Darling to make the climb more accessible for wheelchair users, while offering others “a long way around” — an alternative, slow, and sensory path to the top.
See the full Art & Activism programme at roskilde-festival.dk/en/lineup/art-activism.
Roskilde Festival takes place from Saturday, June 28th to Saturday, July 5th featuring Charli XCX, Olivia Rodrigo, Stormzy, Nine Inch Nails, Tyla, Doechii, Arca, FKA Twigs, Wet Leg, Fontaines D.C, and Lola Young.
For tickets and details go to roskilde-festival.dk/en.
Art and activism have become an increasingly central part of the programme at the independent, non-profit Danish festival.
This year, topics such as overconsumption, diversity, accessibility for minorities, and the potential of celebration as a form of protest are among the themes festival participants will encounter in the Art & Activism programme.
At Platform, Roskilde Festival’s stage for experimental hybrid formats, performance art is in focus.
Turkish artist Göksu Kunak, will present Hungry 2.0 blending video, pole dance, and bodybuilding to explore how the body can be transformed.
Festival participants can also experience the dance performance WIRED by Danish choreographer Marie Kaae, massive laser projections by British artist Matt Copson, the circus performance MANIFEST, created especially for Roskilde Festival, and drag karaoke.
Fifty tons of secondhand clothes will be piled high at the festival site in the art installation Return to Sender. Created by the Kenyan artist collective The Nest Collective, the artwork confronts festival participants with the grotesque waste landscapes that are all too common in low-income countries, highlighting the urgent need to rethink our consumption habits.
The same message is carried by British artist Jeremy Hutchinson, who haunts the festival as a textile zombie covered in dumped secondhand clothing in the performance Dead White Man.
Other artworks and events also highlight the strengths that emerge when navigating a world not always designed for everyone. This is a central theme in the art installation our voises carry futur dreams, that explores life with dyslexia. The artwork is created by Danish artist Julie Nymann, who also features with the sound installation Advantages of Being Dyslexic.
This theme is also explored by the Georgian queer collective Eau de Cologne. In their talk When Rave Becomes Political, they discuss life as LGBTQ+ individuals in a society marked by growing authoritarian tendencies. On top of that, they unleash the activist potential of partying through a live performance infused with ‘90s rave energy.
Meanwhile, throughout the year at Roskilde Festival’s camp site a new artwork, The Long Way Around, will be in place for five years.
Resembling a giant wheelchair ramp spiraling around the hill all the way to the top, it was created by the award-winning British artist Jesse Darling to make the climb more accessible for wheelchair users, while offering others “a long way around” — an alternative, slow, and sensory path to the top.
See the full Art & Activism programme at roskilde-festival.dk/en/lineup/art-activism.
Roskilde Festival takes place from Saturday, June 28th to Saturday, July 5th featuring Charli XCX, Olivia Rodrigo, Stormzy, Nine Inch Nails, Tyla, Doechii, Arca, FKA Twigs, Wet Leg, Fontaines D.C, and Lola Young.
For tickets and details go to roskilde-festival.dk/en.