Linh Le

PERFORMANCE ARTIST & BROWN LONG-EARED BAT AMBASSADOR

Terra Multorum – Land of the Many

Terra Multorum – Land of the Many is a site-specific performance installation which recognizes the many species who inhabit an area. “Terra Multorum” is a response to the term “Terra Nullius” which means “No Man’s Land.” The idea that the land does not belong to or is inhabited by anyone was and is still used…
Scream for the Survival of Bats

CopenhAustin residency with Warehouse9 and MoHA April 2024 in Austin, Texas. “Dance on top of a bus in the middle of a parking lot and scream for the survival of bats? Yes, anything can happen at MoHA. This is the place where dreams come true – thanks to a fully funded one-month of freedom to nurture…
Saa by som borger, Saa by som art

Saa by som borger, Saa by som art – The city as citizen, the city as species – is a four hour long performance ritual paying tribute to the diversity of life. Researchers are talking about a biodiversity crisis and a sixth mass extinction, where the extinction of species is happening 10,000 times faster than…
Finding home for misplaced objects and bodies

“Finding home for misplaced objects and bodies” is a 12-hour walk with 12 different stops in Aalborg as part of Metropolis’ Walking Landscapes 2021. Linh Le walked from Lindholm Høje to Port of Aalborg with stops at Nordens Kridtgrav, Aalborg Zoo etc., in total approx. 15 km, with the material alu foil, and investigated how…
Becoming Species

Becoming Species is a performance climate activist group focusing on the survival of species and biodiversity. We connect with and move towards understanding different species by becoming and in this way amplifying the voices of a multitude of life. Becoming Species is part of the global movement Extinction Rebellion and uses non-violent direct action and…
Female Primordial Force

Ongoing performative research on embodied experiences of listening to forces of nature and letting the meetings take forms. It’s like when you fall in love with a lover or a friend and they unlock something in you, a desire, an interest, a character trait that you did not know you had in you. This is…
Arternes Ritual

Arternes Ritual or Species Ritual is a combined workshop and performance format developed with visual artist Phuc Van Dang. We invite kids, young and adults to paint local endangered species melted together with a human feature to show the interconnectedness between humans and other species. The visuals are painted on a cloth which I perform…
Corona Cave

Corona Cave (2020-2022). A research of being in isolation and what we bring with us of dreams and fantasies in our corona cave. Live performance at Own Your Frame, ST:ART Sydhavn Teater in 2022. Research at BIRCA residency in 2020 & ongoing at home. Virtual showing at pIAR online showings in 2020. Virtual showing at…
Nordic Summit of Species

Species’ Ambassadors hosted the world’s first summit of species where people from 11 countries participated in a two-day festival with workshops, talks, species parade, open stage, all revolving biodiversity and the rights of nature. Species ambassadors from Norway, Sweden, Germany, Iceland were co-hosting the event. I took part as ambassador of the brown long-eared bat…
Bat Walk

Come with me for walks at dusk and experience the bats! Listen to their screams through my bat detector and find out what kind of bat species live in the area. Along the walk, make some stops with me, to look at the world upside down, elongate your arms, make screams and imagine how it…
Becoming Bats – performative meditation

Have you ever wondered how it feels to fly and scream at night? I offer one-hour guided meditation in becoming bats with soundscapes of bat screams, gentle touches on the body, and poetic reading which will leave you with a deeper knowledge about the often misunderstood bats. Guided meditation in becoming bats was developed in…
Kultippen – Terra Multorum

Performance ritual honoring the species of Bornholm. By sunset at Kultippen during Bornholms Kulturuge 2024. Honoring endangered and rare species of Bornholm. Painted species on stones. Dancing between the stones. Stones placed in the cracks of the landscape, marking a route through the landscape. Guests followed the route with me and the different species we…
Refshaleøen – Terra Multorum

Performance ritual for the species inhabiting Refshaleøen. Circle of gathering and circle of stones with species names written on them. Poetic recitation of the common, rare, endangered, and extinct species. Together, we chanted Terra Multorum – Land of the Many and made howls in the direction of Lynetteholmen, a big artificial island that is under…
Stien til Sydbjerget – Terra Multorum

Terra Multorum – Land of the Many pays tribute to the many species in the area of Sydhavnstippen. I have written their names on the concrete stones. 37 common species in the outer circle, 12 rare species in the middle circle and 8 endangered species in the inner circle. I honor species like the Great…
Initiation ritual as brown long-eared bat ambassador

In autumn 2023, I was appointed ambassador of brown long-eared bat by the Embassy of Species Copenhagen. Several ambassadors were present including ambassador of the great newt, parrot waxcap, seabuckthorn and common whitethroat. For my initiation, I made a ritual where I drew imagined sound pulses of bats on the hand palms of the people…
Green hawker to Passage Festival

A parade of endangered species are taking back space in the urban city landscapes. For Passage Festival 2023, I created a performative parade in collaboration with Elsinore Theatre where we walked through the streets of Elsinore wearing our masks of local endangered and rare species together with our knotted costumes that connected us to each…