Linh Le

Sculpture, performance and print workshop in collaboration with artist Phuc Van Dang.

Nature and its many inhabitants like the bats have found its favorite places for foraging.

In Kildedal, the brown long-eared bats use an old barn as its permanent feeding place.

The bats are total protected, and according to the Danish law may not be captured or killed, nor may their breeding sites and the areas they regularly return to for food be destroyed or damaged. Therefore, the barn is untouchable and cannot be demolished despite the fact that Kildedal is planned to be built and become a city housing thousands of human inhabitants.

Before the human species moves in, we pay tribute to the other species like the bats who have both their home and feeding in the area.

By invitation from Kildedal By, visual artist Phuc Van Dang created a magnificient long-eared bat sculpture with a poetic text written by me. Phuc Van Dang also created super cool bat stencils which we used to make prints on bags and secondhand clothes. Also, I performed a dance for the bats in the barn where the bats forage.

I recommend going to Engagergård in Kildedal at dusk when it is cloudless, when the huge linden tree in the garden is in full bloom and when it is in full bloom, it attracts many moths and when there are moths, there are many bats. The brown long-eared bats then fly to the barn use and eats the body of the moth and leaves the wings which are lying around on the floor of the barn.

Thanks to Kildedal By for finding ways to highlight and pay tribute to the special places that are already inhabited.

For the performance, I wore a mask of the brown-long-eared bat made by mask builder Randi Kjær.

Sculpture by Phuc Van Dang.