Mid Sweden University

Tourism is a significant part of the everyday life of those who dwell within toured landscapes and exists through mundane performance, unreflexive habits and everyday technologies. In a study of the craft-artists of Bornholm, Denmark, I describe the tourist landscape as a realm of dwelling where human activities weave themselves in the environment through processes of embodiment. The encounters between the tourists and the craft-artists are largely defined by the way these craft-artists dwell on their island and by the material properties and techniques used to turn clay and glass into artistic creations. This demonstrates the central positions materials have in shaping the tourist landscape. The cultural landscape, as a realm of mundane embodied practices, thus cannot be detached from the landscape that tourists encounter.