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…

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…

INTEGRATION MANIFESTO – Julius Blomsgade, Copenhagen

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Julius Blomsgade, Copenhagen June 1, 2006 Integration Manifesto was a Roskilde Festival Test-Site carried out by kids and young people, mostly immigrants living in the street. In 2004 Karoline H. Larsen had a vision in front of the red house full of immigrants. She wanted to do ‘something beautiful’ together with people living in the…

COLLECTIVE STRINGS – Enghave Plads, Copenhagen

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Enghaveplads, Copenhagen August 1- 5 2007 What would it be like living in cities inhabited by people doing creative actions in public space? Would it change the way people act? Would it impact peoples’ view on one another – would it change yours? By involving people in a colorful string muster, this workshop explores how…

THE MEAL AND THE SPACE – Hotel- and Restaurant School, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Hotel- and Restaurant School, Copenhagen 2001 The Meal and The Space is a group performance, which took place as a part of a seminar on the Hotel- and Restaurant School. In the performance, 22 persons dressed in service uniforms acted as “living walls”, while 5 food reviewers had dinner prepared by the students. The performance…

MANUAL: Pong Pong – for indoor & outdoor, Copenhagen

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Livingroom March 2003 The dream of an oversized pong pong that reaches all the way around the body. You wind the string eternally around two sheets of paperboard and you cut between the two layers of paper and a pong pong is created. The idea of everyone having an eternal ball of string inside them,…

STRING TRACK – Small is beautiful, Marseille, France

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Central trainstation Saint-Charles, Marseille October 6-8, 2010 The festival “Small is Beautiful” invited 10 european artists (dancers, visual artists, performers) to make solo performances descending the monumental stairs at the central trainstation Saint-Charles. Every artist could freely perform “une descente d´escaliers” twice a day. Karoline made a string-track descend, inviting the public on the stairs…

SONG HONG – Hanoi, Vietnam

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Hanoi Future Art Space, Vietnam September 4-18 2009 Exhibition Statement: We came, we saw, we met and we reacted – Song Hong became the place that embraced all of our thoughts and interests and created our contextual frame. We researched the area by boat and by feet and as we moved through the landscape, new…

COLLECTIVE STRINGS – Albertslund City Center

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Albertslund city center March 28, 2009 On March 28 2009 the city center in Albertslund was more colorful than usual. Yellow, purple, red, green and blue strings were crossing the streets, inviting the people passing by to play along. Everyone was asked to join in, to merge, throw, swing and pull new string-tracks into an…

CREATIVE ACTIONS – Moving Space Festival, Copenhagen

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The Backyard of B- Huset, H.C. Ørstedsvej 65, 1879 Frb. C. May 7, 8 and 10 During the performance festival, Moving Space, which took place in streets, squares and backyards in Frederiksberg from May 7-10 2009, the artists Zeenath Hasan, Astrid Lomholt og Karoline H. Larsen arranged an interactive SMSTour. The participants met in the…

CREATIVE ACTIONS – AFUK, Islands Brygge

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Islands Brygge, Copenhagen May-June 2005 The local area and population of Islands Brygge were explored through daily creative actions, defined and carried out by students at the Academy of Un-tamed Creativity in collaboration workshop with Karoline H. Larsen. Everyday a creative idea was intended to be followed by a practical exploration. E.g “Let’s find the highest…

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…