MAIKEN STÆHR^DK

Join visual artist Maiken Stæhr for an artistic, from-farm-to-table experience, where you share fresh greens harvested directly from a field in the camp site, prepared as part of the performance Harvest and Survive. 
 
In GROW, Roskilde Festival’s community garden, Maiken Stæhr from early spring worked on establishing a field. In collaboration with gardener Nanna Hjortkjær Jespersen, they cultivate vegetables and herbs for a live performance in three acts: cultivation, harvest, and serving. 

During the first days of the festival, you can take part in the work and experience a full harvest. Six gardeners slowly gather herbs and bring them into the camping area, where they are washed, chopped, served with a song, and finished with a vinaigrette misted over the salad. Enjoy! 

The harvest becomes a choreographed action using specially crafted metal tools engaging a conversation on consumption, hospitality, and agricultural production. Harvest and Survive forms a circular ecosystem within the festival and aims to spark dialogue about the production of the food and the drinks we consume at the festival, exploring themes such as gastronomy, community and, labour.  
 
Maiken Stæhr is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose work blends sensorial and political approaches to explore consumption, food culture, agriculture, climate, and social class. With a background in organic farming, she explores what it means to participate in food systems we simultaneously depend on and resist. She lives and works in Copenhagen. 
 
This work is realised in collaboration with Østergro and GROW and Langkærhave Community Garden.