Near Lost Farm HQ, down at the crossroads in Out of Town, you will meet a group of birch trees overlooking the fields and the vast Kattegat Sea. Inside the grove you would find birch time listenings – an audio piece and a series of three interconnected live performances made specially for Lost Farm Festival 2025 by the Latvian artist, curator, and anthropologist Liene Jurgelane.

The piece explores past, present, and future as simultaneously existing facets of time and weaves together personal and collective stories, myths, poems, and songs that invited into the depth of connections between humans and birch trees across different times and geographies. Betula Pendula or the Silver Birches are the initiators and artistic co-directors of the piece.

This audio journey was available throughout the festival and there was three live performances by Liene Jurgelane at sunrise, midday, and sunset. The Lostfarmers could either join all the interconnected elements of this artwork or just one or some of them. birch time listenings was an invitation to attune to the rhythms of the land and the stories held by birch trees – stories of beginnings, thresholds, transitions, griefs, joys, and longings. 

Liene Jurgelane is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and anthropologist from Latvia, based in Aarhus, Denmark. Her work spans performance art, artistic research, and multispecies collaborations, rooted in earth-based wisdom, particularly from the Baltic region. She fosters deep connections through sensory walks, participatory performances, workshops, DJ sets, festival programs, and medicinal gardens. She is organizing ROOTED, a performing arts festival focused on plants.

Liene Jurgelane at Lost Farm Festival is supported by the New Carlsberg Foundation.

Photos: Nadiia Tarasevych &
Santiago Salazar