Landmarks - Espen Hjort & Mees Borgman

27/06/2025

It is a wrap!! Treework !Thank you all who were involved, thank you all who made it possible. We feel grateful and fulfilled after creating our newest work and presenting it to so many, dedicated and interested people and trees in the sold out forest of Terschelling. We received so many beautiful reactions and words on the work, thank you all!
A special thanks to the tree ensemble at Østmarka and Bos Duinmeertje Hee. It has been such a privilege to sing and create the work together, it has made us realise even more how exciting this work, this invitation to different approaches, can be. Trees are absolutely amazing creative beings and exceptionally beautiful performers.
Thank you, Trees.
These were the first showings of Treework. There are many more to come, each time in collaboration with a different Tree Ensemble.
We are very much looking forward 🌲
Team: .studio

10/06/2025

We are presenting Treework !
The premier of this contemporary opera will be the 14th of June!
Together with the beautiful trees of Bos Duinmeertje Hee and
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29/05/2025

Here is running like crazy during one of our rehearsals of Treework! We have been challenged to think about time, growth, resilience and decay. We have been running, climbing and disappearing into the soil. We can't wait to share our attempt. We invite you to reshape your relationship with forests. Almost Oerol time...✨

25/05/2025

Working with trees is something we can absolutely recommend. An invitation to reshape your relationship with forests.
Tickets for Treework are now available
Premier 14th of June!!!

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18/10/2022

LAST CHANCE to see Stonework in Holland. Tonight and tomorrow, 18 & 19 October, we end our tour in beautiful Amsterdam . Check linkinbio for last tickets.

07/10/2022

DO IT YOURSELF STONEWORK #2
Put your hand on the stone and feel the surface of the stone and the temperature. Lift the stone and feel the weight and size in your hands.

About Stone
Stone is old. Very old. An unimaginable 1.5 billion years old. It was in the middle of the Proterozoic that he was formed on the fault line of two continental plates, roughly where the Atlantic Ocean now flows. Stone is now of a manageable size: approximately the size of a large loaf of bread, weighing 9.3 kilograms (20.5 lb) . This used to be different. In the Cambrian era, say 600 million years ago, Stone was a rock formation hundreds of kilometres long that hitched a ride north-eastwards with tectonic movements. Destination: present-day Norway, where Stone was deposited in the Hallingskarvet mountain range some 400 million years ago.

📸Anna van Kooij

05/10/2022

DO IT YOURSELF STONEWORK #1
Go outside, to an area you like to visit and see if you can find a stone that appeals to you. Observe where the stone is located. In what kind of landscape, on what kind of surface, besides what kind of vegetation? Also observe how the stone lies, where the stone touches the ground or something else.

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸
The brand new work 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 is an exciting new direction for Espen Hjort and Mees Borgman. Together they are embarking on a journey into the unknown, creating works for and with non-humans, inspired by the urgency of the climate crisis. How can we as artists contribute to a more sustainable future on the planet Earth?

𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀
18-19 October - Frascati, Amsterdam
https://www.frascatitheater.nl/nl/agenda/1290/Espen_Hjort_Mees_Borgman_Landmarks/Stonework

29/09/2022

Throwback to our première night at . What a wonderful evening it was.

📷Pieter Kers

22/09/2022

Our teaser is ready! See a glimpse of what you can expect when you experience Stonework. See whole tonight at WORM Rotterdam. Get your tickets here: https://worm.stager.nl/web/tickets/111181015

19/09/2022

"Since I've seen Stonework and got to know your stone, I am touched by the destiny of this stone: for over 500 years deprived from his freedom."

Want to get to know our stone? Come experience Stonework this Thursday (22 September) in WORM Rotterdam.

Tickets & info: https://worm.stager.nl/web/tickets/111181015

14/09/2022

"Een ontwapende en confronterende performance." Mooie woorden van Theaterkrant voor Stonework. Lees de hele recensie via de link hieronder.

Stonework is nog te zien in Theater aan de Rijn - Arnhem(14-9), Theater De Nieuwe Vorst - Tilburg (15-9), WORM Rotterdam (22-9) en Frascati in Amsterdam (18 & 19-10).

Recensie: Op de beste momenten maakt 'Stonework' van Landmarks (Espen Hjort en Mees Borgman) scherp voelbaar hoe moeilijk de mens het vindt om een oprechte relatie aan te gaan met onze omgeving.

08/09/2022

"The ecological crisis is first and foremost a relationship crisis. It stems from the way man has related to the earth for centuries, as a sovereign species that felt elevated above everything else. In our work, we want to create space for a fundamentally equal encounter with the other person." - Espen Hjort
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“De ecologische crisis is in de eerste plaats een relatiecrisis. Ze komt voort uit de manier waarop de mens zich eeuwenlang tot de aarde heeft verhouden, als een soevereine soort die zich boven al het andere verheven voelde. In ons werk willen we ruimte scheppen voor een fundamenteel gelijkwaardige ontmoeting met die ander.”

Speellijst Stonework
8 september: Theater Ins Blau, Leiden (try-outs)
9 september - Gaudeamus Festival (Theater Kikker) - première
11 september - Gaudeamus Festival (Vogelfrei)
14 september - Theater aan de Rijn, Arnhem
15 september - Theater De Nieuwe Vorst, Tilburg
22 september - WORM Rotterdam
18 & 19 oktober - Frascati, Amsterdam