Memorial That Unveils Its Being in the Heathland

Memorial That Unveils Its Being in the Heathland (2023)
Public earthwork for ANTHEA (AU/MoMu), part 3
50 x 6000 cm
Præstbjerg Naturcenter, Herning Kommune

Memorial That Unveils Its Being in the Heathland (2023)
Public earthwork for ANTHEA (AU/MoMu), part 2
50 x 500 x 600 cm
Skulpturlunden, Hvolris Jernalderlandsby, Viborg Museum

Memorial That Unveils Its Being in the Heathland (2023)
Public earthwork for ANTHEA (AU/MoMu), part 1
100 x 100 x 100 cm
Enebærdalen, Læsø Klitplantage

Project description:
'Memorial that Unveils its Being in the Heathland' is an earthwork in three parts, created in collaboration with the research project 'Anthropogenic Heathlands (ANTHEA)' led by Mette Løvschal (Aarhus University / Moesgaard Museum), supported by European Research Council and Carlsberg Foundation

Publication contribution:
’Memorial That Unveils Its Being in the Heathland’ (2023), in ’A Place for the Heathlands?’ (ANTHEA)
Editors: Mette Løvschal, Zachary E. Caple, Michelle Farrell, Mark Haughton
Co-editor: Karen Grønneberg
Editorial assistant: Thea Møller Jensen
Published by Jutland Archeological Society 2025

Supported by:
The Danish Arts Foundation, Grosserer L.F. Foghts Fond, Danish Art Workshops

Presentations
07.02.2025, Panel discussion, 'A Place for the Heathlands?', ANTHEA conference, Moesgaard, DK
26.05.2024, Lecture on art and shepherding, Tankefrø - Heden, with Mette Løvschal and Emmy Laura Pérez Fjalland, Bloom - Festival om natur & videnskab, Frederiksberg, DK
26.09.2023, Artist talk, 'Hedeværksted - Kunsten i heden', workshop with the pastoral association 'Får til Kanten', Præstbjerg Naturcenter, Herning, DK

Interviews
Billedkunstneren, edition 04/2023 on landscapes, The Visual Artists Association (BKF)
'Læsø repræsenteret i stort forskningsprojekt', Læsø-Posten, 19.04.2023

Additional links:
'Artistic internship among sheepherders', AU
'Making art in the heathland', AU
'Heathland workshop', AU
'Artist collaboration with ANTHEA', AU

Facilitated by:
- Naturstyrelsen (The Danish Nature Agency)
- Læsø AiR / Læsø Kunst og Kultur
- Skulpturlunden / Hvolris Venner (Association of Hvolsris Friends)
- Hvolris Jernalderlandsby (Hvolris Iron Age Village) - Viborg Museum
- Lystbækgaard
- Lystbækforeningen
- Fonagergaard
- Teknik og Miljø, Herning Municipality

All photos:
Tina Sørensen, Kirsten Østergaard
(c) Ellen Martine Heuser