Aarhus Billedkunstcenter er ved at udvikle metodiske tilgange til kunstnerisk arbejde i det offentlige rum - et forløb under navnet Art and Participatory Strategies.
Har du lyst til at være med i processen og vidensdele om emnet, så er du meget velkommen til at deltage i paneldiskussionen, vi afholder i forbindelse med RETHINK Participatory Citizenship i samarbejde med Aarhus Universitet.
Bemærk: paneldiskussionen afholdes på engelsk.
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Program for Art and Participatory Strategies
November 15th 2013 at Godsbanen, Vogn 1.
10.30 – 10.35 Welcome: Anja Raithel (Denmark), head of Aarhus Center for Visual Art.
10.35 – 11.05 Agnieszka Wolodzko (Poland), artist, curator and researcher based in Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Poland.
11.05 – 11.35 Matthias Einhoff (Germany), artist and member of KUNSTrePUBLIK, Berlin, Germany.
11.35 – 11.55 Adria Florea and Anja Raithel (Denmark) from Aarhus Center for Visual Art on the project ”From Godsbanen to Gellerup”.
11.55 – 12.15 Discussion. Moderator: Anja Raithel
12.15 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 17.30 Simultaneous workshops with Agnieszka Wolodzko and Matthias Einhoff
Program in detail – The Panel session
10.35 – 11.05 Agnieszka Wolodzko (Poland), artist, curator and researcher based in Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Poland.
About Agnieszka Wolodzko
Agnieszka Wolodzko was born in Gdansk in 1961. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk in 1980-1986, at the Faculty of Industry Design and the Faculty of Painting. She is currently a PhD candidate at Mickiewicz University in Poznan at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Her thesis treats participatory art in Scandinavian countries in the period 1990-2010. Concurrently she works as an artist, curator and author of texts on contemporary art, architecture, urban planning and issues of the cities of today. Since 2000 she has worked as a curator at Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk and she is currently curating the exhibition ”Participatory Art in Scandinavian Countries”. Read more about Agnieszka Wolodzko on her website: http://www.wolodzko.art.pl/index.htm
Abstract
WHO NEEDS WHOM? PARTICIPATORY ART IN THE CONTEMPORARY CITY
I will talk about participatory art (PA) as one of the manifestations of the so called new public art. My understanding of PA is based on two definitions. The first of them is that of Susan Lacy, when she describes someone involved in this type of practice as an "artist-activist". According to Lacy, the starting point of this type of activity is to challenge a traditional artistic practice based on work in the comfort of his/her studio, in isolation from society. The artist-activist creates new meanings and symbols in consensual co-operation with the public/selected social groups. This practice requires the use of skills and tools that have nothing to do with traditional methods of creating art. The artists have to face new challenges now: “how to collaborate, how to develop multilayered and specific audiences, how to cross over with other disciplines, how to choose sites that resonate with public meaning, and how to clarify visual and process symbolism for people who are not educated in art.”
The second definition, authored by Claire Bishop, outlines the boundaries of this art, detailing the following features: 1 / "the desire to activate the subject - one who will be empowered by the experience of physical or symbolic participation”; 2 / ceding some or all of authorial control over the production process of an art project for the sake of its co-creators; 3 / desire to restore social bonds through the collective production of meanings.
Presenting some examples from the Polish and Scandinavian art scenes I will discuss projects, which I divide into two groups: “Encounters” and “Micro-utopias”. I will also point to attitudes of the artist versus thecommunity, with which he/she co-operates: inside-in and outside-in. In the end I will mention some dangers that result from the artist’s activity in the political domain.
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11.05 – 11.35: Matthias Einhoff (Germany), artist and member of KUNSTrePUBLIK, Berlin, Germany.
About Matthias Einhoff
Matthias Einhoff was born in Hildesheim near Hannover, Germany in 1972. He currently lives and works in Berlin. After training as a cabinetmaker, he studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and Central St. Martins College in London. As an artist, composer and performer, he is interested in the intersection of art, popular media and everyday life. Einhoff is a member of the non-profit organization and artist collective KUNSTrePUBLIK as well as co-founder of the innovative residency-venue ZKU (Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik), which is intended for artists and academics who do urban research. Read more about Matthias Einhoff, KUNSTrePUBLIK and ZKU here: http://wasteland-twinning.net/explorers/matthias-einhoff/ , http://www.kunstrepublik.de and http://www.zku-berlin.org
Abstract
KUNSTrePUBLIK
Matthias Einhoff will present the artistic practice of the artist collective KUNSTrePUBLIC. In alternating roles, the collective has experimented in various social and professional fields. As artists, curators, researchers and activists, they employ a site-specific approach to generate critical confrontations between art and public. In exhibitions, lectures and workshops, they share and test their experiences with the public and other institutions. In 2012 KUNSTrePUBLIK opened the ZKU (Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik) in a former Railway Depot in Berlin, with a residency program for artistic practice at the interface of urban research. The members of KUNSTrePUBLIK engage in constellations and community-based activities, including education, urban planning, art making and curation.
KUNSTrePUBLIK's approach to projects is process-oriented and starts from the particular social, historical, economic and sometimes political situation. The newly founded ZKU is aspiring to create a hub for artistic projects, scientific research and the everyday. KUNSTrePUBLIK is interested in creating and facilitating artistic projects, which are dialogical, partly ephemeral, participatory from the start and locally related. The bottom-up-approach will allow the participants to create meaningful interventions and communal experiments that allow conclusions on broader questions concerning urban landscapes, social constellation and trans regional European collaboration.
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11.35 – 11.55 Adria Florea and Anja Raithel (Denmark) from Aarhus Center for Visual Art on From Godsbanen to Gellerup
Abstract
FROM GODSBANEN TO GELLERUP
The primary goal of this long-term project is to integrate art and urban development and urban renewal processes in the Godsbanen area and in the intercultural areas of Gellerup and Toveshøj, as well as to support citizen involvement in these processes. The project will be deeply rooted in the local environments and their respective challenges, and will first and foremost be created by professional and local artists in cooperation with the respective area’s inhabitants. Our focus will also lie in helping small autonomous artistic collectives to be acknowledged in the broader artistic milieu of Aarhus, as their talent and potential are overlooked because they do not meet the ‘formal’ artistic expectations.
Aarhus Center for Visual Art works closely with a locally anchored institution in Gellerup called Sigrids Stue. Sigrids Stue works with professional contemporary art and invites international artists to live and work in the area. Together, we want to establish a long-term platform for the intertwining of art and urban renewal in Gellerup, preferably within the new community house that is being build over the next couple of years. A space in which to facilitate creative workshops for children and adults, residency exchange programs, and not least, in which to spark debate on change in public space.
Our hypothesis is that the means to achieve successful city renewal in Denmark is a close cooperation between developers, architects, housing associations, citizens, artists and the local authorities.