Lars Schmidt, wandering monk and poet, dance, performance and visual artist, experimental musician, improviser, permaculture designer, facilitator, radical consultant

Exploring the fundaments of cultural and spiritual matters, he often establishes transdisciplinary spaces, in order to support the emergence of a new narrative.

Formative years in New York City, Glasgow and Berlin.
Regular periods of retreated life in mountain regions of France and Norway.

Background and studies in music and the performing arts, fine arts, somatics, photography and film, ecology and anthropology.

He has worked as actor for film and TV, as acting coach and director.

In dance and bodywork his path led from classical and modern dance training to working with postmodern dance forms (mostly Contact Improvisation), tango and in situ performances.

He is an advocate and activist for nature protection and regeneration, creating wildlife gardens and pursuing research in animal behavior and communication, as well as in different fields of traditional craftsmanship and land use.

Approaching the arts as a way of coming-to-knowing, his Master of Fine Arts thesis (Glasgow School of Art) was titled The Arts in Service: On Learning to Live and to Die, Improvisation as Way of Being and Ecological Practice.

He has lived, worked, and learned on organic farms and with shepherds in France, Italy and Norway, engaged in Transition Town Trainings in Totnes/UK, as well as Deep Ecology Work with Joanna Macy, and holds a diploma of Applied Permaculture Design.

Being a practitioner of Zazen meditation since many years, he has also inquired into the Theravada and Tibetan branches of Buddhism, as well as the philosophies of the Vedanta.

As facilitator, curator and creative consultant he provides 'radical feedback' and aims at building bridges towards Eastern and indigenous understanding.

Lars has lived, worked and taught in major cities like New York, Paris, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Barcelona or Oslo.

He is a member of the International Ecoart Network.

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