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 much more at the small scrap dealer. North Port is today an industrial port area in which Copenhagen Municipality has planned a new future sustainable urban area.
Tarantula is made of the material that even the scrap dealer described as a scrap. He said, “You do me a favor by taking it away, which I otherwise have to pay to get rid of.” “Tarantula rose up out of scrap’s waste, as a body lying in the black snake-like organs and protruded from beneath the snow. We carried it inside, washed it and started a merge of the isolation tubes and cable pipes, as with ass and shoving turned into a bodily formation, which we could hang on wires from the ceiling. Now you can sit or lie down in the Tarantula’s body web and feel its movements,” says Karoline H. Larsen.
Tarantula is created by visual artist Karoline H. Larsen and trainee Zissel A. Kjertum-Mohr.
