COME CLOSER
A site specific performance about the disappearance of public space.
27. October 2006 18:00 - 19:00 @ Kvæsthusbroen,
Copenhagen
SLIDES
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DESCRIPTION
The performance was a result of the workshop "Space, Public Space & Performance" being one part of the event "The disappearance of public space" - a collaboration between the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts/ School of Visual Arts and the Bauakademie of Northern Europe
The performance is a comment on the fact that many public
spaces are developed without the knowledge or democratic involvement
of the public.
The performance was concerned with the access to public
spaces and the power structures behind them. It dealt with the boundaries
between public and private space, which are directly or indirectly defined
by the authorities collaboration with architectural and private enterprises
to create public spaces.
The performance was located in a "new public space" on a pier
in the natural harbour adjacent to the new Opera House and the tourist
promenade in front of the Queens Castle "Amalienborg". The
site is under current development and transformation and so not accessible.
The audience was able
to participate in the performance from the adjacent tourist promenade
by selecting predefined "actions" from
a set menu carried out by performers who had been granted access. Through
their choices they could determine the outcome of the performance - for
example, for a nominal fee of 10 Cent, they could have a hole dug in
the enormous pile of sand on the pier. Or they could have a house build
with a view to the opera house, or order people to roll down the pile
of sand.
PARTICIPANTS
Workshop Leader: Jørgen Callesen
Viona Lee, Architectural Lighting Design, HS, Wismar, Germany
Ulrika Hagqvist, Fine Art, Svenska Yrkeshögskolan
Sonja Akulinin, Wall & Space, Copenhagen Academy of Fine Arts
Paul Ehlert,
Architectural Lighting Design, HS, Wismar, Germany
Suada Demirovic, Wall & Space, Copenhagen Academy
of Fine Arts
Sidsel Meneche, Wall & Space, Copenhagen Academy
of Fine Arts
Trine Munk, Wall & Space, Copenhagen Academy
of Fine Arts
Camilla Helsted Baunæs, Wall & Space,
Copenhagen Academy of Fine Arts
Jane Jin Kaisen, Wall & Space, Copenhagen Academy
of Fine Arts