The Rites of Wreckage and Waste

Rites of Wreckage and Waste is a site-responsive performance parade by Brazilian artist Rodrigo Andreolli. Set in Sydhavnstippen—a landscape born of land reclamation—the piece explores the entanglements of ecology, memory, and urban development through rites of wreckage and waste.Through ceremonial acts of collecting and speculating with discarded materials, the parade unfolds into musical compositions, movement, and acts of erosion. Plants rise from rubble, and stories echo across metal wires, concrete, and soil—carried by human and more-than-human voices.Like a myth-building exercise, ruins are reassembled piece by piece, inviting the audience to connect with ancestral knowledge and envision new futures rooted in our material past.