meet all the contributors of 2026

View fullsize “I did consider bringing gorse, a plant that has featured in my written, sound and visual work in different ways for 13 years.. Partly also because it is yellow and in keeping with this year's Rooted theme and because it is variously called gor
View fullsize Let’s welcome Louise Kirkegaard to ROOTED, where she will share her knowledge of making visual art from natural plant colours with us. 🎨 Louise is an Aarhus-based artist working between landscape, performative practices and plant-based materi
View fullsize “I will bring the plant ‘natlys’ in spirit. Natlys is a plant that grows in Denmark and the name of my Substack publication under which I self-publish essays. I found out about the plant Natlys by chance, as I was curious about name
View fullsize We’re so happy to welcome Rikke Otte to ROOTED this year, with a special session “Remembering Place, Remembering Me” 🪞 Rikke Otte is a creative maker and ecological thinker, exploring human connections with the more-than-human. He
View fullsize “The plant I will bring is 'Rice'. I have researched Korean village rituals and found that 'rice' is a central agent in relation to the community and land. They have constantly shaped each other. The rice cake ritual I will introduce this time
View fullsize We’re truly honoured to have Yeong Ran Suh on this year’s edition of ROOTED, with her “We/Re Confess Our Faith” intervention 🏹 Yeong Ran Suh is a choreographer and artistic researcher in Copenhagen and Seoul. She created mul
View fullsize ROOTED is a festival about paying attention – to plants, to each other, and to the world we share. Through performances, sound, workshops, installations, and rituals, we gather a community of ecologically curious people for two days of celebrat
View fullsize “I’m bringing the willow and the waters of the Rhine and Scheldt watershed as the willow’s more-than-human companion. There is a magnificent willow tree on my paternal grandparents’ land, and it has quietly accompanied my life
View fullsize Let’s welcome Dorota Michalak and Borys Slowikowski to ROOTED, with their Phytosomatic Dance Party 🪩 Dorota Michalak is a choreographer, dancer, somatic educator and organizer of Polish origins. In her choreographic, communal and pedagogic pr
View fullsize “I’m inviting the Elderflower, as it reminds me of my own roots from back home in Thy” - @rafael_hendriks There’s never too much of Elderflower, we would say... Welcome to ROOTED! 📸 @rafael_hendriks Stay tuned for more RO
View fullsize We are so happy to have Anja Perl at ROOTED this year! Together, we’ll dive into her workshop “Humans and Plants in Dialogue - How would my way of living change if I developed a deeper connection and understanding of edible plants?”
View fullsize “I will be bringing dry stems of Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica), and they will be part of my performative reading.” - Alaa Abu Asad We just can’t wait. Welcome to the circle, Japanese knotweed! 🌱 📸 Taylor Friehl on Unspla
View fullsize Wendy Wuyts is joining ROOTED this year! We’re so so happy to have her with us, offering a 2-hour workshop Writing (with) Plants about Homecoming in Times of Ecological Exile 🌿 Wendy Wuyts is a Belgian ecofeminist scholar, writer, and facilit
View fullsize “I’m inviting the cuckooflower (Cardamine pratensis; pl. rzeżucha łąkowa): from/of the meadow, harbinger of spring, a perennial pale pink companion, unassuming yet unmissable; and the swift (Apus apus; pl. jerzyk zwyczajny): a sky-bound p
View fullsize Anika and Monika are joining ROOTED this year with their project Baltic Correspondences - eco-poetics and multispecies co-writing. An experiment. A practice. A meditation with inner and outer land(capes) ✍🏽 Anika is a poet, writer & artist, in
View fullsize “I will bring to ROOTED the dandelion for abundance, cycles and audacity. And salt for her slowness and protection in my work - together with water, she creates the boundaries which allow microbes to do the work of fermentation safely”- @
View fullsize Clare Archibald is joining this year’s edition of ROOTED, with a sound installation 'if trees were lone women what would they sound like', part of her project Lone Women in Flashes of Wilderness 🌬 Clare Archibald is a Scottish multidisciplina
View fullsize “The friend and collaborator I am bringing is soil from my indoor compost. We are doing the workshop together, soil and I.” - @planetsilje Soil, you’re so welcome in the ROOTED circle 🌱 📸 @planetsilje Stay tuned for more ROOTED
View fullsize Alaa Abu Asad is coming to ROOTED this year! We’re so happy to be sharing the floor with this artist and photographer whose work takes the form of images and writing. Language and plants are central themes through which he develops alternative
View fullsize “Here’s a litte story about ivy: Ivy (Hedera helix) teaches us about the politics of growing, attachment, and letting go. As an evergreen creeper, in its juvenile phase it grows across surfaces and up into space, gripping tightly with st