Hvordan ser Midtfyn ud om 50 år? I kunstprojektet Den Utopiske By inviterer vi Midtfyns borgere til at forestille sig deres egn i fremtiden og diskutere, hvordan den ideelle by ser ud og fungerer.

I løbet af efteråret 2020 vil kunstnerduoen Jens & Morten realisere borgernes fremtidsvisioner i et nyt interaktivt digitalt rum.

Via workshops med 3D scan, game jams, modelbyg, lydoptagelser, tegning og digitale samplinger udvikles et nyt Midtfyns univers, der gør borgernes fremtidsdrømme til virkelighed.

Projektets munder ud i en serie videoer og en Midtfynsk spilleplatform, hvor alle har mulighed for at gå på opdagelse i egnens fremtid og bygge videre på fortællingen.

Videoerne lanceres i midten af oktober, hvor de bliver delt på sociale medier.

Følg #DenUtopiskeBy, hvor vi løbende deler billeder og information fra processen samt for at se de færdige videoer.

Fredag d. 30. oktober kl. 16-19 lanceres det interaktive Midtfynske rum og videoerne vises i byrummet i Ringe.

Den Utopiske By med Jens & Morten kurateres af Another Public og realiseres i samarbejde med Faaborg-Midtfyns Kommune, Rudmekompagniet, FGU Syd- og Midtfyn og Ryslinge Friskole.

#VærkDinVerden is launching its’ second campaign which will culminate in May 2021.

In 2021 Værk Din Verden will unfold as a potpourri of social and visual situations, performances, actions and artistic conversations taking place live throughout the month of May within and around three already existing art works.

Participating artists are: Karoline H Larsen, Molly Haslund & Pelle Brage.

More info on the way! In the meantime, check the project website to explore the last campaign in November 2018.

www.vaerkdinverden.dk

And follow #VærkDinVerden on Instagram.

Another Public curated the exhibition Living as Clay as part of Indonesia Contemporary Ceramic Biennale 2019 taking place in the district Jatiwangi in Indonesia.

Participating artists: Christian Elovara Dinesen, Jesper Aabille and Emil Krog Rasmussen.

Living as Clay explored how the local material clay mentally connects people and places in Jatiwangi. For the exhibition three artists produced new process based art works for three different sites: A school, a health centre and a market. The participating artists responded to the social role of these sites through the lens of clay, resulting in different art works that mutually celebrated clay as a way of living in Jatiwangi:

• Superfood by Christian Elovara Dinesen at the health centre.
• Connecting Clay by Emil Krog Rasmussen at the school.
• Fruit Tile Trading Station by Jesper Aabille at the market.

View the exhibition catalogue here.

Living as Clay was curated by Another Public in collaboration with jatiwangi Art Factory. The project is based on long term dialogue involving two research visits in Jatiwangi in 2017 and 2018, both supported by The Danish Arts Foundation.

Another Public produced the public art award Værk Din Verden Prisen that was a site specific celebration of the public art work HjerteMix placed inside a long tunnel in a housing area in Greve.

The event was an extension of Værk Din Verden 2018, that encouraged the public to nominate their favorite public art works. Based on the nominations a jury selected HjerteMix as the winner. The residents won an award by artist Tanja Nellemann Kruse and 5000 kr. to celebrate.

The celebration consisted of the large scale participatory art performance Growing Grid by the artists behind HjerteMix, Karoline H Larsen, Benny Henningsen, ÅF Lighting, Helle Hove og Astrid Randrup. Over 150 residents and locals joined the event painting their tunnel with colorful grid patterns.

For the exhibition Living as Clay Emil Krog Rasmussen invited kids from Al Mizan Islamic Boarding School to make a huge multi-colored chain out of clay with him. Through a series of workshops each student made their own individual clay chain.  Each student’s chain was then linked together with the classmates’ chains. Finally all the classes’ chains were tied together into a long chain, that they collectively installed in the school yard; Planting the chain in the earth and letting it grow organically up and around the trees.

The final sculpture symbolises the kids’ mental connection to clay, to the school and to each other. Also transforming clay into a metaphor for the educational system pointing towards the importance of emotional connections and collective caring as well as the fragile structure of a community.

Fruit Tile Trading Station by Jesper Aabille was one of three new art works made for the exhibition Living as Clay in Indonesia.

For Fruit Tile Trading Station, artist Jesper Aabille, had a booth at Ciborelang Market in Jatiwangi. From there he invited shoppers and sellers to trade real fruit in exchange for fruit tiles; sliced fruit combinations hand painted on roof tiles. If one costumer gave one watermelon and a banana, Jesper would paint one watermelon and a banana on a roof tile and give it to the costumer in exchange.

The project mimics the social and economic system at the market were people hang out and meet each other while buying food to bring back home.

The roof tiles original function as money based trade object is turned into a conversation about the value of the market as a social space often used for unformal hang out, gossiping and sharing stories. Inviting the costumers to freely define the value of the roof tiles in fruit, Jesper asked how is value created? And points towards Jatiwangi as a place where social life and chit chats might rank higher than money and profit.

The project ended with an open ceremony in Jesper’s market booth where all the traders came and picked up their fruit tile order and ate fruit salad together.

For the exhibition Living as Clay artist Christian Elovara Dinesen transformed the kids’ nutrition consulting room at the hospital into a visual and humorous art installation called Super Food. The art work taped into the urgent issue of malnutrition among kids, an issue that the hospital deals with through counseling families in food’s nutritional values.

In Super Food Christian turned this difficult and heavy health issue into a playful and aesthetic conversation and campaign focusing on food and health as more than just a matter of nutrition, but also a matter of imagination, play and togetherness.

The installation consists of several sculptures imitating the local kids’ collective selection of food they would consider as super food. The kid’s super food selection is shown as oversized, intensely multicolored clay food piles, decorated with glitchy stickers and blinking led light.

In Super Food Christian uses clay to mirror the Jatiwangi kids’ relation to health and food and taps into Jatiwangi’s characteristic sense of humor and collectivity as a step stone to talk about healthy ways of living.

Another Public was invited by the New York-based art organization No Longer Empty to participate in a 4 month collaborative curatorial experiment and conversation taking place in Flatbush in Brooklyn.

Based on the overall concept of community wellness the invited curators worked towards a new exhibition to take place in the context of the local hospital Kings County Hospital. The curators conducted a series of studio visits, did site specific research in Flatbush, discussed and speculated in curatorial and collaborative strategies, methods and challenges within the field of contemporary art, site-specificity and community involvement.

The project culminated in the collectively curated, site specific exhibition (After)care at Kings County Hospital, expanding hospital services into a concern about everyday life in the Flatbush community.

When the public library in Værebro got a new art work from The Danish Arts Foundation – The Grass Bike by N55, Another Public made a communication campaign to encourage local awareness and motivate the library users to borrow and use the art work.

The campaign consisted of three components, a hand-out recipe on how to use The Grass Bike, a small booklet with ideas and inspiration and a public event where the art work was presented and could be tested out. As part of the campaign Gladsaxe Libraries got the local press to cover the news about The Grass Bike.

Another Public has carried out a series of communication initiatives for Kunst i Værebro, among them two smaller publications and hand-outs that describe the art project in the housing area and make the residents take part.

Take a look at one of the publications here.

Kunst som Løsning is a folder presenting the artist Pelle Brage and his art practice. The folder is targeted towards municipalities, companies and institutions interested in artistic solutions to everyday problems.

Danish Art Foundation asked Another Public to write about a selections of newer public art works recently supported by the council. The writings was published as part of the publication Kunst i Hverdagen.

Another Public advises artist Pelle Brage on communication matters and provides curatorial feedback on art works and project ideas.

Please visit Pelle’s web site: www.pellebrage.com

#VærkDinVerden is launching its’ second campaign which will culminate in May 2021.

In 2021 Værk Din Verden will unfold as a potpourri of social and visual situations, performances, actions and artistic conversations taking place live throughout the month of May within and around three already existing art works.

Participating artists are: Karoline H Larsen, Molly Haslund & Pelle Brage.

More info on the way! In the meantime, check the project website to explore the last campaign in November 2018.

www.vaerkdinverden.dk

And follow #VærkDinVerden on Instagram.

Room Service a live conversation series with artists and curators who work nomadically, making art on other people’s territory. This ongoing project explores different methods and strategies of local engagement and collaboration, and sets light on the dilemmas and challenges when guesting other people’s places.

Room Service 2 invited artist duo Pedagogy of Space (Kristian Byskov & Margarita Del Carmen) who work internationally with engagement and organizing of local groups aiming to activate spaces and create new possibilities for people to affect their neighborhoods. Interested in land rights, creation of space and negotiations in relation to specific sites, the artists uses different methods for shared spaces to be designed and formed collectively.

Room Service is realized by Another Public, hosted by LOKALE and made in collaboration with Jesper Aabille and Human Hotel.

Another Public produced the public art award Værk Din Verden Prisen that was a site specific celebration of the public art work HjerteMix placed inside a long tunnel in a housing area in Greve.

The event was an extension of Værk Din Verden 2018, that encouraged the public to nominate their favorite public art works. Based on the nominations a jury selected HjerteMix as the winner. The residents won an award by artist Tanja Nellemann Kruse and 5000 kr. to celebrate.

The celebration consisted of the large scale participatory art performance Growing Grid by the artists behind HjerteMix, Karoline H Larsen, Benny Henningsen, ÅF Lighting, Helle Hove og Astrid Randrup. Over 150 residents and locals joined the event painting their tunnel with colorful grid patterns.

Room Service is a series of live conversation series with artists and curators who work nomadically, making art on other people’s territory. This ongoing project explores different methods and strategies of local engagement and collaboration, and sets light on the dilemmas and challenges when guesting other people’s places.

Room Service 1 invited curator Rhine Bernadino (UK/Phillipines) who’s curatorial practice is inspired by sailing, pirates, guerilla tactics, falling in love and gossiping. She runs an artist residency and community art project in a small fishing town in the Philippines. On of Rhine’s methods to engage and start up new community collaboration is hanging out and partying.

Room Service is realized by Another Public, hosted by LOKALE and made in collaboration with Jesper Aabille and Human Hotel.

When the public library in Værebro got a new art work from The Danish Arts Foundation – The Grass Bike by N55, Another Public made a communication campaign to encourage local awareness and motivate the library users to borrow and use the art work.

The campaign consisted of three components, a hand-out recipe on how to use The Grass Bike, a small booklet with ideas and inspiration and a public event where the art work was presented and could be tested out. As part of the campaign Gladsaxe Libraries got the local press to cover the news about The Grass Bike.

Another Public has carried out a series of communication initiatives for Kunst i Værebro, among them two smaller publications and hand-outs that describe the art project in the housing area and make the residents take part.

Take a look at one of the publications here.

Kunst som Løsning is a folder presenting the artist Pelle Brage and his art practice. The folder is targeted towards municipalities, companies and institutions interested in artistic solutions to everyday problems.

Amalie Frederiksen/Another Public wrote an essay on Kitchen Dialogue; a the nomadic social art project by artist duo Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen. The essay was published in a new book by the artist duo that collected all their Kitchen Dialogue projects with, among other writing, essays by some of the curators they have been working with throughout the project’s lifespan.

The essay responds to the Kitchen Dialogue project Strategies to Minimize the Error, happening in Copenhagen in 2016 as part of the exhibition Alt_Cph curated by Amalie Frederiksen & Charlotte Bagger Brandt.

Buy the book here.

Danish Art Foundation asked Another Public to write about a selections of newer public art works recently supported by the council. The writings was published as part of the publication Kunst i Hverdagen.