Mixed Reality Art School – how are we doing?

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As I see it, the genius of Mixed Reality Art School is the kind of creative movement that we will be able to offer all ages, when the playful learning goes across between virtual platforms, and the real physical bodily world. Movement from inside the inner chamber of the heart and out into the world…

HUSUM VOCAL – TALKING GLOWING HEADS in Husum, Cph

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From 1 December 2011 to 1 March 2012 in Husum  a suburb of Copenhagen, Denmark, there will be sounds and lights of Husum Vocal from Talking Glowing Heads hanging high in the electric poles in places where the young girls from Club 348 want a mood change in the urban If you pass under the…

PERFORMATIVE URBAN DESIGN – book 2010, Aalborg University

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Performative Urban Design Hans Kiib Aalborg University Press 240 pages, 2010 ISBN: 978-87-7307-982-9 Performative Urban Design seeks to identify emerging trends in urban design as they are reflected in the city’s architecture and spatial design. A ‘cultural grafting’ of the inner city is taking place, and urban development is pursuing an intense city life, in…

TARANTULA – recycling scrap, Kulturkajen Docken, Copenhagen

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TARANTULA permanent installation, Kulturkajen Docken, Nordhavn, Copenhagen Watch a short video of the happy Tarantula HERE When you sit in Tarantula on first floor in the VIP area of the privately owned cultural quay dock, Docken.dk, you can see beyond North Port and onto neighboring property, where it flows with scrap iron, wire, insulation and…

COLLECTIVE STRINGS – Arthall Charlottenborg, Copenhagen

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Charlottenborg Exhibition, June 18th – August 30th, 2009 As a part of the Charlottenborg exhibition Works at Work, curated by Charlotte Bagger Brandt, Karoline H. Larsen made a Collective Strings co-creation workshop with Dennis Bomgaard Glashøj, Kasper Johansen, Dennis Junker, Rickey Kristensen and Philip Rosenstand from Half-way House Lysholmgård – an institution under the Directorate…

ART ON THE MOVE – KUNSTEN’s sculpture park in Aalborg

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Follow the proces of ART ON THE MOVE Art workshop in KUNSTEN’s sculpture park by Lykke Salling and Karoline H Larsen / photographs by Berith Elise Jensen Watch ART ON THE MOVE, film 6:18 min video in high-resolution on VIMEO Friday August 5th All the young participants from China, Germany, Iceland, Lithuania, Rusland and Denmark…

THE LIVING GROUP PORTRAIT – Arthall Charlottenborg, Denmark

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installation view Arthall Charlottenborg 2004 The Living Group Portrait is a 120 minutes video/film installation (5 x 8 meter wall projection) made for the exhibition “Med Kærlig Hilsen/With Love” as a feministic comment on the 250 year anniversary of the Academy. In the movie you´ll hear 80 individuals telling about their personal relationship with the…

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Kropsskilte – Strandparken Holbæk

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Talking (Climate) Head 1 – by Copenhagen University during Climate Summit 2009

Talking (Climate) Head 2 – by Copenhagen University during Climate Summit 2009

BODY PICTOGRAMS – Strandparken Holbæk

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2:42 min Body Pictograms/Kropsskilte – Strandparken Holbæk View in full screen high resolution HD at VIMEO CLICK HERE Thanks to Nikolaj Viborg for filming and editing and to Thomas Knak for making the music. Enjoy! Vis Strandparken i Google Maps  – Show Strandparken in Goople Maps Please scroll down for more english text on the…

CANDIDATES 13.12.03 – www.artnode.org

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www.artnode.org, 2003 Candidates 13.12.03 is a 1 minute Web-film. A X-mas Calendar with actionmen, advent wreath and candles. The Lucia bride is chosen, after Nordic tradition, among the young, blond girls in town. The Lucia bride performs the noble virtue to bear the light, warmth and friendship into peoples´ homes. In this work, 6 Lucia candidates…

BODY PICTOGRAMS – Søndermarken, Frederiksberg

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Newt Squelch A temporary 4 months summer installation Søndermarken Park, Frederiksberg. May 29 -  September 29 2010. Møstings Hus, Frederiksberg. May 29 – June 27 2010. // Body Pictograms invite you for a walk in bodily movements that mimic the sensual, brutish and adventurous… Body Pictograms is a playful interpretation of the classical wooden pictogram…

COLLECTIVE STRINGS – McCarren Park, New York City

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McCarren Park, Brooklyn, New York May 13 2007 Karoline H. Larsen invited Jasmine Zimmerman, an american visual artist from Seattle, to do collaboration on “Collective Strings” in New York City. New Yorkers and foreigners were invited to join “21.000 m Collective Strings NYC” which took place in 5 different parks and squares in New York…

GUERILLA JUNGLE STRINGS – Nørrebro Market Square, Copenhagen

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Nørrebro Market Square, Copenhagen, July-Sept 2008 Everyday rhythms of moving the city For three months during summer 2008, a patch of “Jungle Strings” criss-crossed the biggest walls of the Nørrebro Market Square. Every string was handmade and strong enough so that adults, youngsters, and children could swing through the Jungle. Anyone who felt like moving…

TALKING HEADS – Amager, Copenhagen University

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Amager, Copenhagen November 12 – December 12 2009 TALKING HEADS were installed in public space close to Copenhagen University as part of Glowing Climate Festival arranged by Illumenarts during the world climate conference COP15 in Copenhagen. By-passers at the canal including the university students and staff could hear strange voices in the dark every time…

COLLECTIVE HOUSE RECOVERY – Bairro Surubi, Resende, Brazil

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February 2007 Bairro Surubi, Resende, Brazil Bairro Surubi used to be an rural area full of coffee fields, and with workers from the fields living in the area. At this time the railway station was the meeting place of the city. Today the railway station and railway tracks are gone, only a dusty road is…

CONTINUUM MOVEMENT – Jeanne Jensen, Denmark

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Continuum Movement Since 2006 Karoline H. Larsen has practised Continuum Movement with great joy in Jeanne Jensen’s classes, also in Sao Paulo at Lali’s classes and in New York at Mary Abrams studio. It has given Karoline great knowledge and inspiration for her CREATIVE ACTIONS focusing on body movement in Art. Here Jeanne Jensen is showing her Continuum…

CHILDREN WORKSHOP – Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen

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A Children Workshop, Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art, June 16, 2010 Material, Empathy and Sensation What is art made of? And how does one work with art? Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art invited Karoline H. Larsen to make a workshop in their programe “Through the Arts”. Karoline worked in connection to the exhibition…

HUMAN CONDITION – Hannah Arendt, philosopher

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Here writes Hannah Arendt, with its special pathos in the contemporary essay “What Is Freedom?” From Between Past and Future: “So if we understand the political basis of the polis, is the objective or raison d’être of creating and maintaining a space where freedom can appear as virtuosity. This is the sphere in which freedom…

MANUAL: String Track – in any space in the universe

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Skive woods May 2003 Bring at least one yarn ball/roll of string. Tie one end of the string on an object. Go with the string in your hand and go around the next object. Pull, roll, braid, throw, track the string between more objects. Try how many different ways you can (pull, throw, crawl, lift,…

COLLECTIVE STRINGS – Roskilde Festival, Denmark

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Fusetown, Roskilde Festival June 26 – July 2, 2006 At Fusetown, Roskilde Festival 2006, the festival guests were challenged to pull strings into a gigantic collective string web. The guests pulled the strings in different directions, and gradually the structure changed during the festival days. New space and new possibilities for movement were created. What…

7 MAMBA – redesign Arne Jacobsen, Danish Charity Show

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Mamba I + II January 2008 Karoline H. Larsen’s and Astrid Lomholt’s collective redesign of the Arne Jacobsen series 7 chair. Made for the Danish charity show ‘Danmarks Indsamling’ and sold on auction at Lauritz.com for charity in Africa.

COLLECTIVE STRINGS – Krabbesholm Højskole, Skive

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Krabbesholm Højskole, Skive Collective Strings took place at Krabbesholm Art School as a task for the students of Architecture to integrate the strings outdoor and between of the architectural context of the school.

GET LOST – An atlas of the (im) possible Copenhagen

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GET LOST – editor Kjersti Vikstrøm, Danish Architecture Center, book release, May 2010 Jungle Strings as case in the book How do we create a vibrant, dynamic and spatial city? Can architects learn from the artists’ way of working in the public sphere? These are some of the questions that the book GET LOST –…