Urban Artscape.

 

Urban Space as a Work of Art, where everyone is an Artist/Poet/Author. 2004-2009.

A research through art and artistic practices.

 

The City as a Collection of Poetry

Værløse Bymidte den. 3 sept. – 12 sept. 2004

Lyrik-installation / Bog / Digtsamling

Web catalogue for the public art work / poetry installation and its participation in ‘City Living – Living City | The 6th European Biennial of Towns and Town Planners’ in the biennials ‘Street Creativity Exhibition’, where it participated as one of 30 examples of street  creativity in Europe.

 

[Selected publications about the work]

Jan Hatt-Olsen. Byen som en digtsamling. i Forfatteren September no. 4 – 2006. s. 12.

(Forfatteren is the journal of the Danish Writers Union)

 

Jan Hatt-Olsen, Annemette Andersen-Hoppe Levende digtsamling i byen. 15 Cases om kunstnere og virksomheder – mennesket i innovations & oplevelsesøkonomien.  s. 25. Artlab, København 2007. s 25

(poet/artist Jan Hatt-Olsen and cultural advisor in Furesø Municipality Annemette Andersen-Hoppe are interview about ’Værløse Bymidte d. 3. sept – 12 sept. 2004 | Lyrik-installation / Bog / Digtsamling’ and its implications in relation to the municipality and its citizens as a whole and the downtown area of Værløse)

 

Jan Hatt-Olsen. The City as an Expression of Poetry. In Western Humanities Review. Fall 2007: Western Humanities Alliance Special Issue: What is a City, pp. 88-100, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 2007. Wayne McCready, Susan Bennett (guest eds.) PJ Carlisle (managing editor of WHR). pp. 88-100

(The article is a presentation of the poetry-installation / public artwork ’Værløse Bymidte d. 3. sept – 12 sept. 2004 | Lyrik-installation / Bog / Digtsamling’ and its concept and implications in relation to the city, to the concept of the book and poetry. Western Humanities Review is published tri-annually by University of Utah. Western Humanities Review Volume 61 number 3 is made in collaboration with Western Humanities Alliance and University of Calgary. It consists of selected papers from Western Humanities Alliance 25’Th annual conference ’What is a City’ hosted by University of Calgary 2006.  The institutional members of the Western Humanities Alliance are: Arizona State University – University of California, Riverside – Claremont Graduate University – University of California, San Diego – Reed College – University of California, Santa Barbara – Stanford University – University of California, Santa Cruz – University of Arizona – University of Colorado, Boulder – University of Nevada, Las Vegas – University of California, Berkeley – University of Oregon – University of California, Davis – University of Southern California – University of California, Irvine – University of Utah – University of California, Los Angeles – University of Washington – Utah State University – University of British Columbia – University of Calgary – Simon Fraser University)

 

Nicoletta Isar. Vision and Performance. A Hierotopic Approach to Contemporary Art, in Hierotopy Comparative Studies, II, Radunica Moscow 2009. pp. 328-362.

(Nicoletta Isar is PhD, Associated Professor in Art History at University of Copenhagen. In this chapter she writes about experimental theatre (Antero Alli, Jerzy Grotowski), body art (Marina Abramovic), performance (Bill Viola), and urban space and street art (Jan Hatt-Olsen), in this part of the chapter Nicoletta Isar is writing about ’Værløse Bymidte d. 3. sept – 12 sept. 2004 | Lyrik-installation / Bog / Digtsamling’)

There are online access to a pdf version of the chapter at the Russian academy for fine art’s site http://www.rah.ru/files/Lidov-seminar/Prostr_ikoni_statji/17-Isar.pdf

 

Gitte Marling, Hans Kiib, Ole B. Jensen. Experience City. DK, Aalborg University Press, Aalborg 2009.

(Gitte Marling, Architect Ph.d., Professor at Institute for Architecture and Design at Aalborg University. Hans Kiib, Architect  Ph.d., Professor at Institute for Architecture and Design at Aalborg University, Ole B. Jensen, Sociologist Ph.d., Professor at Institute for Architecture and Design at Aalborg University. The book is in Danish, 356 pages and is the result of the research project Experience City – hybride kulturprojekter og performative byrum (Experience City – hybrid culture projects and performative urban spaces)’ Værløse Bymidte as a Collection of Poetry is described and analyzed pp. 30-31, with photos from the poetry-installation p. 32, in the section performative byrum (performative urban spaces) in chapter 2 ‘Danske byer satser på kultur projekter, events & byrum.’ (Culture projects, events & urban spaces get a central role in Danish cities)

 

 

Jan Hatt-Olsen The City as a Collection of Poetry

(The version of this article published in Western Humanities Review has the title ‘The City as an Expression of Poetry’ and can only be acquired through the volume of WHR or in a scanned version online through Encyclopædia Britannica www.britannica.com )

 

The Cinescape Street Creativity Charter

(2005, a charter for street creativity in Europe presented at ’City Living – Living City | the 6’Th European Biennial of Towns and Town Planners’)

 

Urban Artscape Mobile Unit - Sydhavnen

 

The Municipality as a Work of Art | Urban Artscape - Furesø

(Presentation by poet/artist Jan Hatt-Olsen at the international Metropolis Seminar – Biennale 2007 ‘The City as a Stage and the Stage as a City’. The seminar was the opening of the Metropolis project, 2007 – 2017, www.kit.dk/2007/metropolis.htm )

 

Urban Artscape participates in Metropolis Laboratory 2007 by creating a workshop ’Urban Space as an Artwork’ and by making an installation/intervention ´Urban Alchemist in the Night’

 

[Selected publications about the work]

For a re-enchanted urban space. (Juul and Urban Artscape) in Changing Metropolis, Via Design Copenhagen 2008. pp. 108-115)

(pp. 114-115 are written by Jan Hatt-Olsen and Ásta Olga Magnúsdottir about their intervention Urban Alchemist in the Night)

 

Urban Artscape bidrag til AirPlay’s ’Mellem Byen’

( 2007. Udstillingen er en del af Metropolis Biennalen)  Som en del af udstillingen er der udgivet en Manual, hvor AirPlay skriver om de udstillede værker by installation og by interventioner se  http://mellembyen.wordpress.com og derudover spurgt, Kunstner-aktører: Raca, Udflugt, Illumenart, Ditte Maria Bjerg (Camp X), A-kassen (Christian Bretton-Meyer), Jan Danebod, Parfyme, Urban ArtScape (Jan Hatt-Olsen, Ásta Olga Magnúsdóttir), Thierry Colonel, Kenneth Balfelt. Arkitekter/socialt-urbane aktører: Entasis, Mutopia, Bosch & fjord, Urban Task Force om at svare på to-tre af disse spørgsmål (efter eget valg) … og komme med i den 32-sider brugermanual, som giver en upretentiøs og forståelig indføring i Mellem Byen og kunst generelt i byens rum.

 

Spørgsmålene er:

  • Hvad er formålet med at lave kunst/interventioner i det offentlige rum?
  • Kan kunst forandre noget? Hvordan?
  • Hvordan skal man gå til kunsten i det offentlige rum? – eller hvordan gør du?
  • Tænker du over, at nogle folk måske slet ikke har lyst til at støde på kunst i det offentlige rum?
  • Hvordan ser du helst, at folk reagerer på dine værker/aktioner i det offentlige rum?

 

Ásta og Jeg i Urban Artscape valgte at svare på de to første af spørgsmålene.

  • Hvad er formålet med at lave kunst/interventioner i det offentlige rum?
  • Kan kunst forandre noget? Hvordan?

 

Svaret kan læses i brugermanualen til ’Mellem Byen’.

 

Urban Wiki Project 2007 – 2009. An exploration into an augmented urban space, where everyone is a co-author.  This exploration takes place, through new media – public artworks, which are both on the internet and in physical urban spaces, in workshops, conferences and publications. This takes place inside the broader framework of urban space as a work, where everyone is an artist/poet/author.

 

The exploration consist of Urban Artscape – Furesø 2007-2008 new media – public artwork (Furesø Municipality, Greater Copenhagen area, Denmark). Artscape Vollsmose 2008 new media – public artwork (Odense, Denmark).

Urban Wiki | Possibilities and Limitations (Metropolis Laboratory 2008, Copenhagen)

Jan Hatt-Olsen. Urban Artscape – Furesø in Mediacity – Situations, Practices and Encounters (Frank & Timme, Berlin 2008). Frank Eckardt, Jens Geelhaar, Laura Colini, Katharine S. Willis, Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, Ralf Hennig (eds.) pp. 263 - 283

(The book is a publication from the Mediacity Project www.mediacityproject.com , Bauhaus-University in Weimar)

Jan Hatt-Olsen(2009). Urban Spaces as a Work of Art (IP), peer-reviewed conference paper. In the proceedings of the international conference ‘Architecture and Stages in the Experience City’. Aalborg University.

( The conference is part of Performative Architecture: Experience City www.exp-city.dk, based at Institute for Architecture and Design, Aalborg University. The paper is about Jan Hatt-Olsen research of urban space through my art and artistic practices)

 

Urban Artscape Furesø

Urban Artscape – Furesø: English Version

 

Jan Hatt-Olsen. Urban Artscape – Furesø in Mediacity – Situations, Practices and Encounters (Frank & Timme, Berlin 2008). Frank Eckardt, Jens Geelhaar, Laura Colini, Katharine S. Willis, Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, Ralf Hennig (eds.) pp. 263 - 283

(The book is a publication from the Mediacity Project www.mediacityproject.com , Bauhaus-University in Weimar)

 

Artscape Vollsmose | WikiVollsmose

 

Urban Wiki | Possibilities and Limitations     Cross Borders – Create Place

Workshops at Metropolis Laboratory 2008

 

Jan Hatt-Olsen (2009). Urban Spaces as a Work of Art | Imaginary Realism. In Hans Kiib (Ed). Architecture and Stages of the Experience City pp. 313 - 321. (Aalborg University, Aalborg 2009)

(The book is part of a larger action research projects that connects urban development with architectural quality, performative urban spaces and art www.exp-city.dk. The article Urban Space as a Work of Art | Imaginary Realism is about Jan Hatt-Olsen’s research of urban space through his art and artistic practices)