” Floating Sponges/Luminous Phrases”. 

The Vitus Memorandum.

Those spores, that inspired

The dreams of true mapmakers,

Are life’s very stuff.

Bering Island Burial.

I found me a spot,

Far, far from the sadd’ning crowds,

To rest for-ever.

Bering See-Lines.

See-lines criss-crossed lands.

Glimpsed, past midnight, they’d call us

From our broken  dreams.

Rolling in the Deep.

Byss? Abyss? Escape!

Through narrow, cold straits! Drowning?

Drowned? In .. time-less .. depths?

In the Beginnings.

In the beginnings,

There were words. Planted deep, in

Fragiled, ancient times.

Dusts to Dusts.

We’re not diamonds.

We’re shattered glass, searching for

Our truths in these dusts.

The Roskilde Light Festival 2020 "Floating Sponges/Luminous Phrases" soundscape.

Lay back and listen to music and throat-singing from the area closest to the Bering Sea, spiced up with the six haiku opposite (approx. every 5 minutes).

Floating Sponges/Luminous Phrases is a visual/textual sparring between the artist and scenographer Annika Nilsson and theatreman/poet Peter Campbell Bensted. 

Peter - hugely inspired by Annika’s fantastical sculptures of the ”glass sponges” to be found in the Bering Straits, and the life and travels of the famous poor-boy-made-good Danish explorer and scientist  Vitus Bering - created skeletally small haiku, with added sound/spoken word elements, for Roskilde Light Festival 2020. 

Peter and Annika share a deep desire to explore the inner recesses and the outer limits of life - and all that lies between – in a search, and re-search, towards greater understanding of the connections/dis-connections of our ”human condition”.