URBAN SPACE AS AN ARTWORK
URBAN ARTSCAPE (JAN HATT-OLSEN, ÁSTA OLGA
MAGNÚSDÓTTIR)
The pictures are from a
poetry-installation / public art project, there was a collaboration between
the conceptual- public artist / poet The poetry-installation /
public art project was selected to be one of the 30examples of street
creativity in Europe exhibited in City Living – Living City |the 6’Th
European Biennial of Towns and Town Planners. web-catalogue www.lyrik-installation.dk/Vaerloese
WORKSHOP IN TRANSFORMING URBAN SPACE INTO AN ARTWORK IN COLLABORATION
WITH EVERYONE IN THE URBAN SPACE AND PASSING THROUGH, LIVING IN IT, WORKING IN
IT, WORKING WITH IT OR IN ANY WAY RELATING TO IT.
FOR ARTIST, ARCHTECTS,
URBAN PLANNERS, WRITERS, POETS, URBANISTS
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July 31 2006 August 5
Urban Space as an Artwork
The concept of art.
The concept of art is an art, which is not something there purely intervene or is installed or exhibited in the urban space, but an art which give the whole urban space an extra dimension. Everything and everybody in urban space will become art and artist. The role of the professional architect, urban planner and artist is to make and organize catalysts for this process to take place.
The workshop is from July 31 to
August 5.
July 31.
Presentation of participants their
earlier works and there concept of art, urban space and art in urban space.
Urban Artscape will present
different examples and strategies
August 1
The participants will work with
urban places they have selected.
They can work in groups or by
themselves. The work can be theoretical and or the making of
installations/interventions in urban space by different means.
August 2
The participants will work with
urban places they have selected.
They can work in groups or by
themselves. The work can be theoretical and or the making of
installations/interventions in urban space by different means.
August 3
The participant will make their
presentations to the seminar the august 4 and august 5
During
the workshop there will be presented some tools and examples related to art in
urban space and urban space as an artwork.
The tools are perspectives,
optics and mapping there can be used in the process of transforming an urban
space as a whole into an artwork,
●
An expanded concept of the work of art.
Hierotopy
a new research field where associated professor in art history at the
●
The City as text – The City as meaning
The
idea is that everybody and everything has meaning and can be written as a text.
The theories of Roland Barthes can be emphasized here, but there are an exiting
development in new anthropology and new cultural history, there a likewise
ideas about meaning, where music, poetry and dance are fundamental
● The City as
music – The City as a partitur
● The City
as a Theater
The City can be perceived as a
theater. A way of perceiving the City, which have some parallels with the
Teathrum Mundi form the Barock.
- The City as a Film
The City can be perceived as a film which is not playing on
the silver screen or in liquid crystals in a LCD screen, but in an augmented
reality in urban space.
● The
City as Chôra
Chôra
is the space in-between. In Plato’s philosophy it is the space between the
physical world, the world of senses and the world of the ideas. Chôra is a
space in flux, where everything is in the process of creation. The art historian
Nicoletta Isar, who is researching in chôra has written an article about
Værløse Bymidte as a Collection of Poetry, where the chôra perspective is
central.
● William
Blake’s Cosmos.
It’s
still a radical idea the English poet and artist put forward in his art. The
world is a world of imaginations, if you perceive it as it really is, where
everything is art and everybody is an artist (is they se the world as it is)
and even smallest scratch in a red brick wall is the gateway to a new living
world of art.
● Art as urban planning
Through
an installation/intervention to transform an urban space into an artwork,
demands that the artist work with the art as urban planning. How does the art
installation/intervention relate to an influence the infrastructure,
architecture and live of the whole urban space.
In
October there will be published a paper by
● Municipalities
as a work of art.
● Psycho geographical Mapping
Besides
working with traditional maps is it a good tool to work with psycho
geographical mapping. An art form which is part of the legacy from the
situationist movement in the 50 – 60. Is basic idea is to map emotions,
thought, behavior connected to different places. There is a renaissance of the psycho
geographical mapping connected to the new mobile and digital forms of
communication, there makes it possible to create interactive psycho
geographical maps.
Examples
are yellow arrow, which started in
● Dérive og anthropological fieldwork
To
be a flaneur in the city collecting thoughts, emotions, impressions and
expressions or to engage actively in using the others as informants of urban
space is valuable for understanding and connecting to urban cultures and
values,
● From Urban Spaces to Urban Places
Some urban spaces are only a space
somewhere in an urban environment, but others are places. Places you relate to
and talk about. What is making a space to a place. Cynthia M. Grund Associated
Professor at the
Simultaneously with the workshop during the day, the art group Urban
Artscape (
The installation/intervention is from 22-01 each night (when it’s not
raining) if some of the workshop participants want to join they are welcome.
The workshop is each day from 11-17
Metropolis Laboratory http://cph-metropolis/en/laboratory2007
Urban Artscape www.urbanartscape.org
The Metropolis Laboratory is supported by The
Danish Art Council and Realdania
