Study Days: Rocks and Stones
Som optakt til årets program i Haven afholder Rønnebæksholm den 23. og 24. august en to-dages Study days: Rocks and Stones – lithic collaborations udformet af billedkunstner Florian Roithmayr og i samarbejde med Stevns Klint Experience.
De to dage samler kunstnere, forskere og geologer i en fælles undersøgelse af menneskets forhold til sten og jord. Med afsæt i materialets betydning i både kunst, videnskab og mytologi udfolder dagene perspektiver på, hvordan sten ikke blot bærer fysisk tyngde, men også lagrer hukommelse, advarsler og kosmologi.
Praktisk information: Dagene foregår på engelsk. Billetten koster 200 kr. standard og 100 kr. studerende eller Ungpris (U25)og dækker entré den 23.august på Rønnebæksholm, hvor der er Havemarked og entre den 24.august til Stevns Klint Experience.
Man kan medbringe sin egen madpakke eller købe mad begge steder. Tag praktisk tøj og fodtøj med til begge dage da workshopdagene foregår primært uden for. Der serveres te/kaffe og vand på Rønnebæksholm. Læs det fulde program og book din billet her.
*English version*
As a precursor to this year's program in the Garden, Rønnebæksholm is hosting a two-day Study Days: Rocks and Stones – lithic collaborations on August 23rd and 24th, designed by visual artist Florian Roithmayr in collaboration with Stevns Klint Experience. Over the two days, artists, researchers, and geologists will gather to jointly explore humanity's relationship with stones and earth. Based on the significance of the material in art, science, and mythology, the days will unfold perspectives on how stones not only carry physical weight but also store memory, warnings, and cosmology
Practical information: The days are held in English. The ticket costs 200 DKK standard and 100 DKK for students or young price (under 25) and covers entry on August 23rd at Rønnebæksholm, where there is a Garden Market, and entry on August 24th to Stevns Klint Experience.
You can bring your own packed lunch or buy food at both locations. Wear practical clothing and footwear for both days as the workshop days primarily take place outdoors. Tea/coffee and water are served at Rønnebæksholm. Read the full program and book your ticket here.
Program in English
Saturday 23 August
11:00-13:00: Practical workshop exploring rocks and clay as materials, led by Florian Roithmayr. Materials will be provided, but if you have a favourite rock or stone, please bring it along.
Lunch break (your own lunch or you can buy in the garden market or Café Haralda)
14:00-16:00: Talks and Presentations by Hazel McGoff, Karing Ruggaber, Helen Wicksteadt.
16:00-17:00: Book Launch: Rocks & Stones, by Florian Roithmayr
Sunday 24t August
11:00-15:00: Site visit Stens Klint
11:00-12:00: Guided tour in the Stevns Klint Experience with Nana Katrine Legh-Smith
Lunch break (your own lunch or you can buy in the garden market or the café)
13:00-14:00: Walk along Stevns Klint + Workshop “From kokkolit to art”
14:00: Opportunity for a hike along the Stevns Klint footpath on your own
Contributors
Hazel McGoff is an Associate Professor in the University of Reading. Her main role is in teaching Earth and Environmental Sciences and enjoys including hands-on practicals in her modules. Most people ‘learn by doing’ and so observing, touching, handling and sometimes smelling specimens is both instructive and memorable. She is also responsible for the extensive geology collections and over many years has worked with students and external volunteers to curate, catalogue and organise the geology collections to safeguard them for the future.
Nana Katrine Legh-Smith is an engagement officer at Stevns Klint Experience. Stevns Klint is in Stevns in South of Zealand and is on the UNESCO World Heritage List due to its unique importance as a geological and cultural area. It is recognized as an essential site for understanding the mass extinction of animal species about 66 million years ago in connection with the impact of an asteroid.
Florian Roithmayr works with sculpture to generate and trace exchanges and transmissions between bodies, between bodies and materials, and between materials themselves. These exchanges register the consequences of one gesture, surface, or material yielding another – particularly in the interstitial space between mould and cast, where something unforeseeable often emerges and remains unaccountable.
Karin Ruggaber makes sculpture and produces artist’s books. Her work engages a range of media, focusing on materials in relation to their dynamics and associations – whether with particular activities or representational functions.
Helen Wicksteadt is a museum historian and archaeologist who unearths the histories of neglected, discarded, and stigmatized collections. She has excavated sunken boats, prehistoric megaliths, Sudanese pyramids, Bohemian ritual enclosures, and modern rubbish tips. She is the founder and Director of Recycle Archaeology, a company discovering new social uses for deselected archaeological artefacts that works with schools, charities, urban farms and museums.
Photo: Florian Roithmayr.
Støttet af Ny Carlsbergsfondet og Ulla & Erik Hoff-Clausens Familiefond samt Reading University.