Daydream Dialogues: Poetic Sanctuaries – Artist in residence under the Huskunstnerordning

Daydream Dialogues is a site-responsive art project exploring how we create temporary sanctuaries in the city. During four weekends in October and November 2026, Peter Vadim and Warehouse9 will host workshops across Copenhagen. Participants will build and map sanctuaries, creating encounters that challenge the norms of public spaces.

The project combines Gaston Bachelard’s theories of poetic space with hands-on creative methods, turning the city into a space for daydreams, safety, and community. We invite you to dream out loud and create spaces that reflect us, as Bachelard writes: “we are all poets when we dream ourselves into the secrets of space.”

The process follows 5 phases inspired by Bachelard:

1. Friction: Explore the landscape: Find places that feel unfriendly or overlooked.
2. Resonance: Choose a “blind spot” location that feels safe/inviting. Describe it using the senses (“What does it sound like?”).
3. Abjection: Transform the location using onsite materials (branches, stones, atmospheres, the body).
4. Imagination: Daydream.
5. Archive: Document the sanctuaries (photos, audio, text, mapping, movement).

Who can join?
18–25-year-olds and their families/friends/close ones. Primarily from rainbow families, but open to everyone.

When?

Saturday 17 October, 1pm – 5pm

Sunday 18 October, 1pm – 5pm

Saturday 24 October, 1pm – 5pm

Sunday 25 October, 1pm – 5pm

Saturday 7 November, 1pm – 5pm

Sunday 8 November, 1pm – 5pm

Saturday 14 November, 1pm – 5pm

Sunday 15 November, 1pm – 5pm

You can participate in one, several, or all workshops. There is no binding commitment.

How much does it cost?

The workshops are free.

How do I sign up?

Fill out the registration form via the link at the top of the page. 

About the artist 

Peter Vadim works with sensory and participatory art set in landscapes and urban spaces. His practice explores how temporary structures emerge through encounters between chaos, imagination, and the body. Inspired by ecological thinking, emergent processes, and poetic methods, he creates situations where people, places, and materials collectively rephrase environments, allowing relational and fluid identities room to unfold.

A central starting point in his work is a care for the abject. The overlooked, forgotten, and cast out, as both an ethical and aesthetic foundation.

Access Information
Warehouse9 has level free entrance to the space and a gender neutral accessible toilet that can be accessed via a certified stairlift.
All events at Warehouse9 are considered “relaxed”. We operate with a safer space policy and ask that you orientate yourself upon entry to the space.

Warehouse9 is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation and The City of Copenhagen.