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 of Probation Service – which act as transition pension with the aim of preparing residents to freedom after serving a prison sentence. During 8 days Karoline and the five men from Lysholmgård collaborated on the String-intervention until the opening where the public was invited to continue the string-tracking.
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“It’s been exciting to try to work in such a house with a ‘real’ artist, and see what other artists come up with.
I hope this gives room to the other prisoners who are allowed to do something similar in the future. ”
“I think the experience with strings has given me more than what I thought it might have given. Honestly I thought, what can you do with twenty rolls of string? We´ve got something funky out of it and it even has been different than the other stuff Karoline usually makes, because we have pulled the strings more tightly, and created something new.”
“I´ve been really happy during these days when I´ve left the work here. Nice to work with my fellow inmates and with something other than what we usually do. It has given some other sorts of conversations between us. We would have to talk about how we could do this. What the hell can you do with strings? It´s crazy what you can do with strings…and you can do much more.”
The visitors continue the string-intervention during 2,5 month exhibition
