What is Creative Actions

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Today, my main reason for creating CREATIVE ACTIONS is to create new public spaces,
where people are trying something different, test themselves among other people and develop its surroundings.

From about 2004 I have worked with CREATIVE ACTIONS in the public sphere in which I involve citizens in individual and collective creative actions. A central, ongoing project is the Collective Strings, which through collective string-tracks changes the spatial relationships and appearance of the different places, as well as residents whereabouts and circumstances of places and each other.

It started in Cape Town in February 2005 when I worked with art students, who helped to pull the collective leash trail across the main street, while hundreds of people crossed the boogie-woogie through.
Before that I had been string-tracking in white cotton strings on the Assistants Cemetery close to my home and I wrote a manual on the string tracks from object to object. It became Collective Strings in many other cities, because people could immediately engage in and express their own pace and shape of the cords.
Other creative actions are also studied examples, Frozen Actions, Collective Mural, Collective House Recovery Eye Action, Interactive SMS-show, text-Tours, Shadow Movie, where some of it is documented in CREATIVE ACTIONS pocket log book.

 
For me it is about the kind of movement that occurs when there is opportunity to do something else: alone or jointly with others, something that turns up and down on the familiar surroundings, is not linear, not assigned. Creates a feeling that something is different, it could continue to be different.

Karoline H. Larsen January 30 2012

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Idag er min vigtigste grund til at skabe Creative Actions at skabe nye offentlige rum,
hvor folk prøver noget anderledes, tester sig selv blandt andre mennesker og udvikler omgivelserne.

Fra omkring 2004 har jeg arbejdet med CREATIVE ACTIONS i det offentlige rum, hvor jeg involverer medborgere i individuelle og kollektive kreative handlinger. Et centralt, løbende projekt er Collective Strings, som via kollektive snore-spor ændrer stedernes rumlige forhold og udseende, samt indbyggeres færden og forhold til steder og hinanden. Det begyndte i Cape Town i februar 2005, hvor jeg samarbejdede med kunststuderende, som var med til at trække kollektive snorespor på tværs af hovedgaden, samtidig med at hundreder af mennesker passerede boogie-woogie igennem.

Før det havde jeg på egen hånd trukket hvide snore på Assistens Kirkegården og skrevet en manual om snorens spor fra objekt til objekt. Det blev til Collective Strings i mange andre byer, for folk kunne umiddelbart engagere sig i og give udtryk for deres eget tempo og forme med snorene.
Andre kreative handlinger er også undersøgt fx. Frozen Actions, Collective Mural, Collective House Recovery, Eye Action, Interactive SMS-show, SMS-Tours, Shadow Movie, hvor af noget er dokumenteret i CREATIVE ACTIONS lomme-log-bogen.

Det handler for mig om den form for bevægelse, der opstår, når der er mulighed for at gøre noget andet: alene eller i fællesskab med andre, noget der vender op og ned på de vante omgivelser, ikke er linært, formålsbestemt. Skaber en følelse af at noget er anderledes, kunne vedblive at være anderledes.

Karoline H. Larsen 30.januar 2012