An audiovisual Journey through the Sea
ØER (Islands) invites visitors into a sensory musical experience centered on biological and cultural diversity. Premiering as part of Viborg Animation Festival 2026. Free entrance! Reserve your ticket here.
Through a fusion of music, poetry and video of microscopic marine life, a journey of the invisible becoming visible unfolds. Hidden ecosystems and unseen organisms initiates a broader reflection on coexistence, interdependence, and the need to move beyond anthropocentric ways of thinking—a reflection on our relationship with nature and with one another.
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, magnified beyond recognition, 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 as part of the Animation Festival, 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 suddenly appears closer.
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 – book your free ticket here
VENUE: Viborg Musiksal, Gravene 25, 8800 Viborg
FREE ENTRANCE
Visitors can book a free time slot for Øer from 8th–12th September. Sessions are available throughout the day, with a maximum of 20 tickets per time slot. Advance booking is recommended.
CREDITS
➤ Music & Concept: Domenico Mannelli
➤ Visual Art: Thorstein Robert
➤ Singer: Uffe Holmsgaard Eriksen
➤ Cellist: Emma Axelsson
➤ Voice-over: Johanne Baadsgaard Lange
➤ Poetry: Davide Cortese, Alanu Di Meglio, Francesco Ottonello, Toroddur Poulsen
➤ Video footage: Martin Kaae Kristiansen, James Weiss
➤ Duration: approx. 45 min.
➤ Produced by: PLASTIC Collective & Ensemble Advena
Supported by
- Viborg Kommune
- Statens Kunstfond
- Dansk Komponistforening
- The Animation Workshop – VIA University College
- UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts