Outreach visions – Seidlers Sensorium

Outreach

History

Since 2009, Marika Seidler has passionately developed art projects for children and young people, under her own name. Her interest began during her studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, where she and a small group of fellow students were responsible for a 2-year workshop program with foreign guest teachers. Seidler then began teaching at the National Gallery of Denmark from 2006 to 2010.

In the years 2013-2015, Seidler developed her art pedagogical method in a larger collaboration with Nikolaj Kunsthal's teaching department and the Zoo's School Service.

Since 2013, Seidler has created a series of performative workshops in nature, based on Sensorium's performance-hiking repertoire. Where children and young people thematically, through audience-engaging performance, are in dialogue with biological processes, herds and community across performing and visual arts in co-creative processes in nature.

In 2023, 9 artists from Seidlers Sensorium; designers, costume designers, writers, performers, dancers, singers and visual artists achieved to become Artist in Residence in Silkeborg. The Seidlers Sensorium team was generously supported by a large grant from the Danish Arts Foundation house art Artist in Residence pool. The project was realized in collaboration with Silkeborg Municipality and Silkeborg Bad, for which we developed new performative formats about soil.

Workshops

Art workshops in performance are held for school students in nature in the forest, by the river or the sea.

School students create their own performance walk guided by house artists. Their house artist workshop combines fieldwork in nature with site-specific landscape reading, history, land type and storytelling.

Kindergartens/SFO create their performance based on a playful approach to stories, where the experience of materiality and sensation goes hand in hand with storytelling and play.

We want children and young people to gain experience with biological performative processes and through art to immerse themselves in and develop a sensory relationship with nature with a focus on the well-being of the community.

Teachers are professional performing artists, visual artists, authors, set designers, as well as Cultural and Nature Mediators and Nature Guides.

Partners

Before a house artist workshop in nature can be realized, invaluable organization and planning work takes place in collaboration with municipalities, art institutions, schools, and nature centers. Together we reach a wide range of children and young people who benefit from a special community-building experience.

We offer teaching and project management, as well as funding applications for municipal funds and the Danish National Arts Foundation's house artist fund.

The Danish National Arts Foundation's house artist program has generously provided subsidies for the realization of our house artist workshops since 2010. Many thanks to our partners and the Danish National Arts Foundation for their many years of interest and support.

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