December 2013Giacomo TurciHelena, Luna and Giacomo are anthropology students who enjoyed Erasmus project during 2013-14 academic year in Copenhagen, studying at the University of Copenhagen.
They carried on a fieldwork in Christiania between October and Dicember, 2013.They studied Christianites' lives (in particular, talking with people in their twenties) considering normalization and Christiania's particular model of consensus democracy after the 2011 pact with Danish government.
Despite they were not CRIR guests, they worked with E. Warburg and with then-CRIR guest, Andrea Liu.
The result of their work is the paper you can read here.
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THE NAXAL BELT IN CHRISTIANIA
The Production of Neoliberal Spatiality
Following the crackdown on Christiania from the Anders Fogh Rasmussen regime in 2003 and increasing pressure to disembowel Christiania of its core principles through privatization of collectively owned buildings, my research at CRIR looks at how we can use the Normalization push on Christiania to look at how government is performed through the Foucauldian tripartite of sovereign, disciplinary and regulatory power as suggested by Hakan Thorn in Space for Urban Alternatives? Christiania 1971-2011. Sovereign power can be characterized as state-sanctioned violence, police, display of power as spectacle; disciplinary power as a more subtle, insidious microphysics of power and dispersed quotidian techniques of control on an individual and his/her body; regulatory power as biopolitics or a macro-technology of power of managing people as a group to make possible the control of entire populations.
Is there a difference between normalization and legalization, with the former being more malevolent than the latter? I am interested in un-packing the polemical tension surrounding Christiania since the normalization push. What are the rhetorical strategies employed by Christiania-ites vs. the Danish state to represent and depict Christiania differently (i.e. regarding its supposed “openness” or “closedness”, its relationship to the rest of Copenhagen) in written documents (i.e. the Christiania Guide, The Christiania Area’s Future: Master Plan and Action Plan) in order to make the case for or against Normalization? How does the state attempt to territorially stigmatize Christiania, and how does Christiania resist allowing the state to define the terms in which Christiania will be depicted in order to “tip the scales” in favor of normalization?
This project will culminate in a discussion in collaboration with University of Copenhagen/Erasmus Project students and artists from ZK/U-Berlin (Center for Art and Urbanistics).
KEYWORDS: Neoliberal Spatiality/ Neoliberal Imaginary/ Redlining /Blockbusting/ Territorial Stigmatization/ Space Wars/Aesthetics of Tactical Formlessness/ Critical Publicness/Critical Urban Theory/Neoliberalism as Creative Destruction/Accumulation by Dispossession (David Harvey)/ Temporary Autonomous Zone (Hakim Bey)
Andrea Liu is a New York city-based visual art, dance and cultural critic who just completed two artist residencies in Berlin (ZK/U and Culturia). She was founder of the temporary gallery The Naxal Belt in Brooklyn, NY.
http://replaceandrea.blogspot.com
http://naxalbelt.blogspot.com
www.zku-berlin.org
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1st October - 19th of October 2013
Rod Northcutt
Assistant Professor of Sculpture
Department of Art, School of Creative Arts
Miami University Ohio, USA
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5th of September 2013
Eva Christensen
Kollektiv historiefortælling
New .phD on Christiania's decisionmaking on it's way from Roskilde University Centre.
ph.d.-afhandling ”Kollektiv historiefortælling – Historiebrug og stedsidentitet i et usædvanligt boligområde” er nu blevet indstillet til forsvar ved Institut for Kultur og Identitet, Roskilde Universitet
TID: Fredag d. 25. oktober kl. 13-16
STED: RUC, auditoriet i bygning 46.
Bedømmelsesudvalget er:
Professor Bernard Eric Jensen, DPU, adjungeret professor RUC (formand)
Professor Anna-Malin Karlsson, Uppsala Universitet
Lektor Dennis Day, Syddansk Universitet
Læs abstract her
OBS: Kom i god tid, da dørene lukkes præcist kl. 13.
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1st September - 30th of September 2013
Gängeviertel
Rita Kohel, Judith Stryczek, Carsten Rabe, Till E.T. Haupt, Michael Ziehl, Jessica Leinen, Simon Riemer, Björn Schmidt, Tona, Nils Kasiske, Franziska Holz, Minigolfmadness, Juliane Kruppke, Franziska Schillig, Hamburger Kino, Urban Ätsch
Visit and exhibition at Gallopperiet in Christiania from artists from the 12 houses in Hamburg centre that were occupied in 2009.
Link: http://www.gallopperiet.dk
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16ht - 31th of August 2013
Andrés Senra
During March 2013 I was working in the videoart for alter Christiania, interviewing people and recording videos of the place, the houses and details.
It was a very productive work and I have found all the facilities to do it, people was always available and they were really nice, giving all kind of answers to my questions. I´m really happy with all the material I have.
My next step was to edit this material and now I´m working in Christiania again in the drawings and the translation of the documentary material in order to create a wider work with the goals I¨ve proposed for the residency.
For the new residents who don´t know about my project the drawings will be portraits of people, architecture and graphics of experiences in order to build an emotional map, where interrelation, life, dreams and organizational structures of Christiania and alter-Christiania are related, I´m also painting some watercolour of fictional landscapes in the way of utopian literature has imagined the ideal city.
The work will be exhibited in Spain at the end of this year in a contemporary art center of Madrid
http://www.intermediae.es
http://www.andressenra.com/
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22nd. of July - 16th of August 2013
Ana Pérez lopez
I come from a country where politicians have sold the soul of all the Spanish mainly to Germany. Where the youth is screaming for a change, or having to leave the country because there are no jobs. Where “crisis” appears in every conversation and the cuts in health care and education are overshadowed by the corruption of those who hold the scissors. We are in a non-returning point, but we are scared to push that fence.
Therefore I will make art piece showing the living conditions of Christiania. A series of Interactive art pieces that explore what really makes Christiania different. They will be presented as posters with QR codes that link to videos that show the special corners of this unique town.
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5th. of June - 21st of July 2013
Tyler Starr
is an artist whose work explores contemporary conundrums and is influenced by the way print media has been used from its very beginnings to impose order on the confusion of human events. Tyler will be researching in Copenhagen archives about the layers of history evident in the city such as the fortifications that framed the cholera outbreak of 1853, Nelson’s naval attack during the Battle of Copenhagen, and the building of Christiania on the foundations of a military base. His artwork will take the form of stenciled images, digital animation and booklets.
He will be offering a workshop for the Christiania community introducing contemporary (practical) approaches to traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques. He studied the technique for seven years while earning a PhD in Studio Arts at the Tokyo University of the Arts.
He will be in Christiania with his wife (artist Miki Kato-Starr) and son.
http://www.tylerstarr.com
http://www.mikikato-starr.com
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15th. of June - 21st of July 2013
Tyler Starr
is an artist whose work explores contemporary conundrums and is influenced by the way print media has been used from its very beginnings to impose order on the confusion of human events. Tyler will be researching in Copenhagen archives about the layers of history evident in the city such as the fortifications that framed the cholera outbreak of 1853, Nelson’s naval attack during the Battle of Copenhagen, and the building of Christiania on the foundations of a military base. His artwork will take the form of stenciled images, digital animation and booklets.
He will be offering a workshop for the Christiania community introducing contemporary (practical) approaches to traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques. He studied the technique for seven years while earning a PhD in Studio Arts at the Tokyo University of the Arts.
He will be in Christiania with his wife (artist Miki Kato-Starr) and son.
http://www.tylerstarr.com
http://www.mikikato-starr.com
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26th. of May - 8th of June 2013
Marius Abramavicius Neboisia
Uzupiz-Christiania-Hirvitalo Caravan Project
Skaidra Jancaite
Tadas surkys
Three partners of the project are the “Uzupio meno inkubatorius“, who represent the art community of Uzupis in Lithuania, “Christiania in Art”, who represent the art community of Christiania and “Hirvitalo”, who represent the art community of Pispala in Finland.
The three communities as well as their representative organisations are famous for their creative works and various artists that reside within them.
We will organize a one week paint workshop in Gallopperiet.
Uzupis artist Marius Neboisia paints the CRIR residence front wall.
During stay in Christiania we will fly huge kites painted by artist from Christiania.
The flying kites will be visible for thousands of Christiania guests and citizens of Copenhagen.
Example photos
Support from Kulturkontakt Nord.
Organized by Marius Neboisia, Jesper Boysen and Anette Steinhart
Material concerning the project will be announced in web pages:
www.uchplus.org
www.neboisia.net
kites. Flying dragons
www.dragonflag.net
Gallopperiet. Christiania Art exposition hall
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8th - 27th of April 2013
Christine Schörkhuber, Maria Hera, Patrícia J. Reis:
Mz Baltazar´s Lab. feminist hacker space.
12.04.13. kl. 15-18. Maria Hera " Ma soer cent tétes!
2 - 3 hours. Place: Christiania, Mælkebøttens Fællesrum
19.04.13. kl. 15-18. Christine Schörkhuber "The beauty of distorsion"
2 - 3 hours. Place: Christiania, Mælkebøttens Fællesrum
26.04.13. kl. 15-18. Patrícia J. Reis "Electronics and Arduino introduction"
2 - 3 hours. Place: Christiania, Mælkebøttens Fællesrum
http://marahera.blogspot.com/
http://masoercenttetes.blogspot.com
Mz. Baltazars´s Laboratory is a feminist hacker space and a artist collective based in Vienna.
It means in general open source, women only, open access.
Non- hierachic teaching and informal learning while subverting capitalistic consume structures with tinkering and empowerment.
Mz Baltazar's Laboratory wants to demystify technology for people socialized as women. In a three days workshop we hack hardware, make noise, build angst-robots and program open source software.
We ask a lot of “stupid” tech questions and develop art projects together.
No one is an expert, no one is only student, we share our equipment and knowledge in order to articulate ourselves through high tech in novel ways.
Mz Baltazar's Laboratory offers women space to make electronics their own and realize interactive art projects.
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1st - 27th of March 2013
Andrés Senra
is an artist from Madrid who works mainly with video,
drawings, photography, actions and interventions in public space. His work
is about identity and its construction, from a personal and social point
of view. He´s also working into other issues such as the need or the
failure of utopia. During his stay in CRIR, he will be working on the
Project “alter Christiania” (videoart, drawings, photography) refering to
how the concept of "Utopia" is understood from each of us. He is
interested in the concept of utopia as a goal never reached and therefore
as self-critical process that takes into account the perspectives not only
of the community but of individuals.
Read an interview about his work and residency in CRIR (in spanish), it´s a well known art media in Spain:
http://www.xtrart.es/2013/03/20/andres-senra-entrevista-por-carlos-delgado-mayordomo/
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18th - 27th of February 2013
New Christiania movie:
"More Cooks"
51 min., 2012, made & screened on 16mm. Click to go to Husets Bio
Vises i Husets Biograf tirsdag 19. februar 2013 kl. 20. Billetter 50 kr. i døren.
Screening at the CRIR house in Grønnegade, Mælkebøtten Feb. 24 at 6 PM. (Free)
Shown at "Huset´´ Biograf", Copenhagen, Feb. 19. 2013 at 8 PM. Entrance: DKK 50
British filmmakers Mat Fleming, Deborah Bower and Harriet Plewis from "The Star and Shadow Cinema" in Newcastle to (re)visit Christiania, showing their movie shot in Christiania last year.
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1st - 15th of February 2013
Marius Abramavicius Neboisia
Marius Abramavicius Neboisia, an artist from the Republic of Uzupis (a unique republic in the capital of Lithuania, Vilnius) is photographing a cycle of portraits of people of Christiania - of those who live, create and act in Christiania, and those who share the spirit of Christiania. If you are willing to participate in the project and to join the intercommunication between Christiania and Uzupis, you are heartily welcome to contact Marius anytime. Marius is staying here till the 15th of February.
Tel:. +37067788238
http://www.neboisia.net/en/2013/01/23/christiania-portraits/
www.neboisia.net
http://neboisia.net/galerija/
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15th of January 2013
Pia Rönicke
Sound recordings
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20st - 26th of December 2012
Helen Jarvis
is Reader
in Social Geography at Newcastle University, UK.
She returns to Christiania to follow up on her research. She is author
of one of the articles in the book with research on Christiania:
'Space for Urban Alternatives' that can be downloaded here
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1st - 19th of December 2012
Rytis
doing volontary work on the CRIR staircase
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October 12 - November 30 2012
Nichole Velasquez
Nichole Velasquez does environmental portraiture on analog film. He is
exploring several german concepts that he came across when he moved to
berlin.
Nichole Velasquez is trying to release colour and form from their
descriptive functions on analog film, allowing emotional experience to
take center stage when viewing a portrait. He would like to make
environmental portraits of christiania and the community living in
christiania.
His work can be viewed on: www.develasquez.com
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September 19th - September 30 2012
Albert Allgaier and Bernhard Garnicnig
collaborate on a number of spatial, artistic, communal and recreational
projects and processes
out of Vienna, Austria.
We run spaces and identities, established groups and companies and
participate in associations, communities and collectives.
Using a practice based research approach, we are interested in
exploring the idea of Collective Autonomy in the context of
Christiania.
We would like to focus on two aspects: the autonomy of practice -
choosing how we do things - in the context of the ideals and
practicalities in collectivity - who we do things with.
To find out, we make ourselves available to join existing collaborative
processes, be of help in return for an direct insight into the
established practices.
Learning about something while doing something else: Is there a
difference between how things get done in Christiania and the places we
did work before? How far does the idea of Autonomy relate to the
practices of getting things done? Is Christiania a different place in
practice or in spirit?
We are very curious about any projects we could join. Please get in
touch: albert.de.bernard@gmail.com
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September 4th - September 18th 2012
becca Journey
Becca Journey is a doctoral student in sociocultural anthropology at
the University of Chicago in the United States. She is interested in
the ways in which Christianites relate to space and practice forms of
ecological care.
In Christiania, she asks how the many different built forms of the
house shape social relations in the realm of the home. How do
Christianites practice singular forms of home-making and dwelling?
During her stay, Becca will give a presentation based on her
Master’s thesis work, a project that examines the social history
of an abandoned Brooklyn swimming pool and its recent reconfiguration
as a performance space and public venue.
If you would like to get involved with her work in Christiania, please
send an email to journey@uchicago.edu or visit the CRIR house by
September 18.
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All August 2012:
Philipp von hase
Exhibition at Gallopperiet, Christiania
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Movie: Paths Through Utopia - News
More from friends from the Star and Shadow Cinema in Newcastle!
Go:
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July 15 - July 29th 2012
alessandro Coppola
Paolo Pini, a large area located in the north of Milan, was the former
psychiatric hospital in the city of Milan. The Paolo Pini area has seen
the opening of a theatre, a hostel, a restaurant and the reuse of
decommissioned buildings as the location for social activities and for
the headquarters of small NGOs. A very popular summer festival has been
effective in attracting tens of thousands people in the once fortified
area offering a high quality program focused on social and mental
health issues.
Christiania represents in many ways the same kind of “urban
project”.
Alessandro will work on the design of a case-study focusing on:
1) the historical role of Christiania in the
development of innovative social and cultural practices successively
influential in the larger urban society;
2) the dynamic of conflict and resolution between
Christiania and public authorities;
3) the current role of Christiania as an urban
project characterized by functional and social mix, cultural
attractiveness and social innovation potential.
Alessandro Coppola (Milan, 1978) obtained his phd in urban studies at
University in Roma III. He has ben an International Fellow in Urban
Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and a research
associate at Cuny in New York City. He has worked for the Italian
Confederation of Labor (Cgil) as researcher and consultant.
He is currently a post-doc researcher in Urban Policy at Politecnico di
Milano. He teaches Urban Ethnography at the International Master in
Urban Planning at Politecnico di Milano and Cultural and Urban Change
in Contemporary Italy at the Institute for the International Education
of Students (Ies Abroad) in Rome.
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Philipp von hase
July 9th - July 14 2012
Exhibition at Gallopperiet, Christiania
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July 1st - 8th 2012
Alberto vanolo
Alberto is a politico-economic geographer from the University of Turin,
Italy.
During his stay in Christiania, he is willing to investigate the
impact of the recent agreement with the Danish state on the imaginary
of Christiania as space of transgression.
Focusing on the construction of the idea of Christiania as a
‘extra-ordinary’ place, he will analyze perceptions of
local activists and inhabitants, and representations in international
media.
His main question is: will Christiania continue to be a laboratory for
transgression and social experimentation, or the pacification with the
Danish state will, to some degrees, limit the radical potential of the
Free Town?
http://web.econ.unito.it/vanolo
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June 27th - July 1st 2012
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May 29th - June 26th 2012
Cassandra M. Burrows
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May 8th - May 22nd 2012
Lisa madsen - Brunette Bros.
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April 7th - May 6th 2012
Marijke Appelman
Artist, born 1979 in Haarlem (The Netherlands)
In her work Marijke Appelman explores all media as friction devices for
philosophical and aesthetic contemplation. The resulting work amounts
to an environmental art, but one whose environment is cultural instead
of natural.
Working with the principle of snail mail, she found the walks to the
post box the most memorable. Resulting in a postcard thanking for the
walk. During her stay at CRIR Marijke will continue these 'daily
walks', this time using the Christiana Post Office and accurately
capturing her findings.
Website: www.marijkeappelman.nl
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11th of March 2012 - 31st of March 2012
JANA WENDLER
PhD Research Student
Human Geography
School of Environment and Development
University of Manchester
I am working on ideas of playfulness in green living and environmental
projects.
Although usually associated with children, play is an interesting
concept that has much wider relevance with links to creativity and
experimentation. It provides a way of challenging existing structures
and finding creative solutions, all of which are needed for the
transition towards a greener urban life.
I want to explore these dynamics in Christiania, learning about the
ways residents have dealt with practical challenges and environmental
concerns in a creative way.
What are the ideas, materials and spaces people “play”
with? And how can these be taken up elsewhere?
I am interested in the stories of the buildings, arrangements and
people, how they have shaped the place as it is today. I want to
observe and listen – but also play with the space to find
different ways of exploring and learning.
If you're interested in this, have ideas to share or want to join me on
some exploration, please get in touch: jana.wendler@gmail.com
http://greenplaylab.co.uk/
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3rd of March 2012 - 11th of March 2012
Linas Svolkinas
Social anthropologist, Vilnius University
A continued research study.
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31st of January 2012 - 2nd of March 2012
Joanne Pang Rui Yun
Joanne Pang Rui Yun is an artist and designer based in Singapore and
Copenhagen. She lives and work in situ. Her practice deconstructs
meanings to re-present forms and language. She is interested in spaces
and the relationship between things. By transforming and creating new
experiences based on existing norms, definitions and systems, she
learns the possibilities and different facets of understanding life and
the spaces between. Her work has been featured in national newspaper
and magazines.
Currently, she is doing a MFA at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts,
School of Visual Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark, where she researches into
the poetics between man and his surroundings.
During her time in Christiania, she will create an ephemeral piece that
combines objects, nature and people in the area. The work will seek to
negotiate the dialectics of order and disorder in response to the
organic nature of the place.
I have started a photo journal, and it will be constantly updated
during my stay in the CRIR:
http://joannepangchristiania.tumblr.com/
www.joannepang.com
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2nd of January 2012 - 30th of January 2012
process of consensus
Visit from Star and Shadow
Cinema:
Mat, Debbie, Oscar and Harriet
More cooks, more broth:
Mat Fleming, Deborah Bower, Oscar Fleming and Harriet Plewis are three
artists and one baby staying at the CRIR house for the month of
January. From Newcastle Upon Tyne, in the far north of England, they
help to run the Star and Shadow Cinema, a small home to creative people
and radicals and a hub for good times.
The cinema also runs by process of consensus decision-making in weekly
meetings. There are a lot of people in this small cinema!
www.starandshadow.org.uk
They are making a film here in Christiania. They are not aiming to make
a documentary but something quite loose and creatively free. They want
to have conversations with Christianites every evening to form the plan
of what they will shoot the following day. Thus the film will be formed
by discussions.
If you would like to take part in the discussions and have a free
evening, please do email Deb, Mat and Harriet at crirguest@gmail.com or
ring them on 50 16 20 27.
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27th of December - 2th of January 2012
Visit from Lohmühle
This world famous (in Berlin) 20 year old squat visits Christiania
between Christmas and New Year. Lohmühle is predominantly known
for living off-grid (they produce their own energy), having a keen
focus on sustainable transition-measures and being a vibrant artistic
community. They have visited Christiania numerous times, but this is
the first official delegation.
If you are interested in what they believe in, what they offer and
their struggles - check out their homepage: http://www.lohmuehle-berlin.de
Or visit them in the CRIR-house between Christmas and New Years.
Contact: Babette <clownettebabette@live.de>
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jeff silvertrust
Musician
Jeff is here for christmas - playing his one man band
http://www.jeffsilvertrust.com
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9th. of December 2011
Movie: Paths Through Utopia
/ Rejse Gennem Fremtiden
Arrangør: Gallopperiet/CRIR.Kitchen "Folkekøkken" 5 to 8
PM
Film 9 PM
Discussion 10:30 PM - 12
Place: Gallopperiet, Loppebygningen, Christiania,
Baadsmandsstræde 43, Copenhagen Denmark
Free admission - Kitchen costs 20 DKK and barprices for beverages
PATHS THROUGH UTOPIAS: A BOOK/FILM
“A passionate anarchist road movie” Le Monde.
Blurring the fluid boundaries between present and future, documentary
and fiction, Paths Through Utopias is a utopian road movie exploring a
postcapitalist Europe.
From the direct action Climate Camp set up illegally besides Heathrow
airport to a hamlet squatted by French art punks, occupied self-managed
Serbian factories to a free love commune in an ex Stasi base, a
Permaculture settlement to the free town of Christiania, this
magicorealist travelogue transports us to a parallel universe after an
economic and ecological collapse.
This debut feature by Isabelle Fremeaux and John Jordan from the The
Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination was shot during a real
journey through 11 European Utopias. It is part of a book-film project,
first published in France by La Découverte/Editions Zones and to
appear in germany in 2012.
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1st of December - 20th of December 2011
Ceren Akyos
Masters student at the University of Copenhagen, 4 Cities
Master Program in urban studies
Autonomous spaces create alternative cartographies in the urban
landscapes by shaping their own social practices and modes of
production within the frame of predetermined and planned
structures. By using the relatively free, undbound spaces in the
official mapping and organization of cities, the role of autonomous
spaces as points of creativity which would allow the formation of free
subjects becomes a prominent fieldwork.
The research in Christiania will evolve around this point of view
trying to answer the questions; Can autonomous spaces reenact the
dehierarchization and the reassembling of spatial structures in a
different way? Can they provoke existing structures and challenge the
stability of the general order by making them susceptible to
modification through the actions of people themselves?
The analysis will not only be at a surface level encompassing the
physical aspects of the place but will try to permeate into the social
structures, daily practices and ideals that came to create Christiania
as a free territory. It will include interviews and personal
observations as well as a comparison with different autonomous spaces
in Europe, such as the Occupatio in Spain, Centri Sociali in Italy and
DIY squats in these respective areas.
Contact cerenakyos@gmail.com
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27th of November - 30th of November 2011
Rupert Sheldrake
English scientist Rupert Sheldrake is giving a talk for the Science
& Cocktails program at Byens Lys, (Christiania's cinema):
In cooperation with
Jay Zulu from Fabriken, Christiania
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18th of october - 15th of november 2011
Sarah Minter
Video Documentary:
Summer in utopia
About the Christianianites struggle.
Please join for Grand Premiere. Free admittance.
Cinema Byens Lys in Fabriksområdet, Christiania
Sunday, November 20 at 5:30 PM sharp!
Mexican video artist
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25st of September
Sound documentary
national english radio 4
Listen here: The_Christiania_Effect_on_4
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26st of September
2 newspaper articles (in swedish)
at Stockholm based papers :
http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/debatt-essa/vad-hander-nar-christiania-blir-legalt
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/fristaden-christiania-soker-sin-norm
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24st of September
Seminar and book release:
NEW book
"Space for urban alternatives?
Christiania 1971-2011"
In connection with Christiania's 40th birthday (26 September),
Håkan Thörn, Cathrin Wasshede, Tomas Nilson, Ole Lykke and
Emmerik Warburg are organising two seminars on a book on Christiania
research that is published in September, and which will be available
for free
download (Books will also be handed out to those who come to
the seminar). We hope that many of you would want to come. Birthday
celebrations will go on all week.
Book release seminar
24 September 11.00
Galopperiet, Christiania
11.00 Anne Tietjen (University of Copenhagen), Erick Clark and Dalia
Mukhtar Landgren (Lund University),
14.00 Christianite panel: Lise Autogena, Johannes Brandt, Ole Lykke,
Jacob Reddersen
The book is edited by Håkan Thörn, Cathrin Wasshede and
Tomas Nilson, University of Gothenburg.
The Book is available
for free download on http://gupea.ub.gu.se.
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21st - 25th of September
Helen Jarvis
comes to Christiania to attend the 'Space for Urban Alternatives' book
seminar and for the (early) 40th anniversary celebrations, as well as
contributing to a panel (with Anders Lund Hansen) at Roskilde
University Centre.
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1st of August - 31th of August 2011
Xavier Almeida
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4th of July - 10th of July 2011
Abhimanyu pandey
Fieldwork
studying the ideas, beliefs, practices and values that create
'happiness' for the people of the unique community of Christiania.
His proposal aims to bring out more of what the people of this
alternative society, themselves think about happiness and
life-satisfaction. It aims to conduct fieldwork through a questionnaire
with several open-ended questions. He is required to present an
academic paper on the fieldwork he has done at his Department,
University of Delhi.
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30th of May - 30th of June 2011
Sebastian Valentine Hernandez
Student of
Architecture, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Writing a
paper that will form the cornerstone of his future Architectural Thesis
in which he plans to explore ways of using Christiania’s model to
defend the Freetown and even propose the creation of more, similar
societies as a means of; re-appropriating unused space; refurbishing
degraded buildings; producing art; encouraging alternative forms of
living; fighting urban sprawl; and solving growing housing shortages in
urban centers everywhere.
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Kristina
Müntzing
Immediate
solution and instant architecture
research for
a handbook
Alternative ways of solving a problem with whatever is at hand, seeing
the possibility in discarded material, appreciating a different use to
the material, not just one way but many.
I would like to research Christiania from this angle, to document the
wide knowledge and alternative approach to this side of craftsmanship.
Finding alternative solutions, in everyday life and architecture. This
way of mending, solving a problem is both ecological and economically
more efficient, less demanding of resources. Giving a higher awareness
of what surrounds us and how this world functions. A lesser gap between
you and your everyday life reality.
This could be a way of making a slow resistance to our globalized Ikea
world dedicated to standardize your everyday life, standardize your way
of thinking and living, standardizing your way of integrating with
people and materea
The purpose of my possible stay in Christiania would be to collect
images of alternative usages and immediate solutions for everyday life
and a very immediate and original way of working with architecture.
Building a house around the windows you found or a tree that you want
to integrate rather than doing it by the handbook and having just time
efficiency and economical reasons for your decisions
How much could you train to see/experience solutions and possibilities
in a piece of wood, some tape and a nail. How much do you have to
ignore the western world of pacifying people, standardizing them into
thinking that they don’t have the skills or possibility to
mend/fix or do.
Having lived in Buenos Aires Argentina for 9 months I saw a lot of the
solutions of necessity, the immediate solution rather than solutions
based on surface aesthetic reasons, hiding the solution behind splines,
spackle and glossy boards
I would like to research and document this very special knowledge I
think I would find in Christiania. My research methods would involve
photography, sketch drawings, conversational interviews and
observations from walking around in Christiania.
Walking-talking and seeing.
I hope to have the possibility to have unpretentious small talks with
the people in Christiania, having the opportunity to be invited to see
and experience the everyday solutions. '
As for the result and method of distribution I would like to make a
manual of handy solutions seen in Christiania, to be distributed in
Christiania and the art institutions/galleries I´m in contact
with at the moment. I would seek funding for publishing, and would have
a print-on-demand from my webpage.
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Helene Liliendahl Sørensen, Katrine Jørsum,
Mette Marie Kristensen og
Anah Maskell Knudsen
Project: We are interested in the
circumstances evolving around the ongoing conflict between Christiania
and the government regarding the government’s plan to normalize
Christiania. In our project we will look at how different groups of
people in Christiania cope with the situation and look at how the
present situation affects the society of Christiania.
Christiania is facing a possible normalization after the Supreme Court
decided that the Christianites don’t have the legal rights to
Christiania. Christiania and the Ministry of Finance are now going
through the last phase of the negotiations. The normalization can be
seen as a pressure on Christiania from the surrounding society, and
challenges the normal order of things in Christiania. Thus,
Christiania is in a difficult situation in which they are about to
negotiate their status as an alternative society, as well as their
norms.
We want to investigate which reactions and changes the pressure from
the government brings out among specific groups of inhabitants and
activists in Christiania, and how this reflects “the
normal” in Christiania.
The project will be conducted throughout April 2011 by Mette
Kristensen, Katrine Jørsum, Helene Liliendahl Sørensen
& Anah Maskell Knudsen, four students of anthropology from the
University of Copenhagen.
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30th of March - 7th of April 2011
Ellen Henriette Suhrke
Studies
Visual Arts at Kunsthøyskolen in Bergen, Norway.
"Jeg jobber med kombinasjoner av fotografi, tegning og tekst. Arbeidene
fremstilles som lineære fortellinger i bokform. Et av mine
interessefelter er relasjoner mellom mennesker og ville dyr i urbane
rom.
I min nyeste utgivelse On How to Attract the Hare tematiserer jeg den
voksende spredningen av ville harer i Helsinki sentrum, og byens
forsøk på å fjerne dem.
Jeg har bodd og studert i København tidligere, og har lenge
interessert meg for Christiania, spesielt på grunn av
innbyggernes relasjon til sine dyr.
Jeg har besøkt fristaden ved flere anledninger, sist i 2009, i
samarbeid med samfunnsviter Johan Falnes. I den forbindelse forfattet
Falnes en artikkel om Christianias hunder, et tema jeg ønsker
å videreutvikle.
Med utgangspunkt i Falnes´ tekst søker jeg om et opphold i
CRIR, Christiania.
Jeg ønsker å dokumentere hundenes tilstedeværelse i
fristaden, og deres interaksjon med hverandre, med sine eiere og med
andre christianitter.
Jeg ønsker også å observere og dokumentere
fristadens øvrige flora og fauna. Nedtegnelsene jeg gjør
i Christiania vil siden danne en lineær fortelling, og
fremstilles i bokform. Falnes´ vil moderere sine tekster, som vil
utgjøre bokens for- eller etterord. Hans fakta-baserte
formspråk vil kontrastere og gi faglig tyngde til mine subjektive
observasjoner.
Jeg vil sette sammen materialet, som siden vil trykkes og publiseres.
Utgivelsen vil distribueres til utvalgte butikker og bokhandler, samt
innad i Christiania."
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A public talk at Colombia University, New York
“CONSENSUS AND CONFLICT: ORAL HISTORIES OF
CHRISTIANIA”
A public talk
on the famed squatters’ community in Denmark
and SPRING 2011 OPEN HOUSE for the
Oral History Master of Arts Program (OHMA).
Click for details.
WHO: Oral historian and former squatter Amy Starecheski talks about her
oral histories of Christiania. Also, staff of the Oral History
Master of Arts (OHMA) program will be on hand to answer questions
from prospective students!
WHEN: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 6:30-8:00pm.
WHERE: Columbia University, Schermerhorn Building, Room 754. Enter
campus at 116th Street, at either Broadway or Amsterdam. Map
AMY STARECHESKI WRITES: I had always wanted to go to Christiania, a
squatted neighborhood of one thousand people in Copenhagen,
Denmark. It is world-famous among anarchists, utopianists, punk
rockers and squatters. The residents have now occupied 85 acres of
downtown land for almost forty years: raising children, creating art,
running businesses, building homes and making all of their decisions by
consensus... (Continues here.)
MORE ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Amy Starecheski is an oral historian, former
squatter, and doctoral student in cultural anthropology at the CUNY
Graduate Center. She co-directs Columbia University’s Oral
History Summer Institute. She is now working on dissertation research
with former squatters in New York City. If you’re interested in
participating in that project, please email amy.starecheski [at] gmail
[dot] com.
SPONSORS: This talk is part of the "Oral History Workshop Public
Lecture Series," co-sponsored by the Oral History
Research Office (OHRO), and the Oral History
Master of Arts Program (OHMA). OHMA is supported by the Institute for Social and Economic
Research and Policy (ISERP).
MORE INFO: The short link, to share via Facebook, Twitter, or email. http://bit.ly/hDIJ3B
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2nd of March - 27th of March 2011
Linas Svolkinas, Vilnius
University
Social
anthropologist.
1 Some research ideas:
The word Christiania refers to an alternative
community in Copenhagen, Denmark. Christiania was established in a
vacated military base in 1971. People, who established Christiania,
came from various social backgrounds. For almost forty years
Christianites have been practicing alternative lifestyle.
The intended four months of stay should be seen in relation to my
previous research in Christiania. In the MA thesis I investigate how
people in Christiania construct and negotiate collective identity. What
are issues, paradoxes and dilemmas? What are collective values and
ideals? How do people create them? In which ways ideals are shared?
What are social institutions which reinforce collective values and
social categories? How do people transmit collective ideals and values?
My study is a long term study, based on intimate knowledge of local
events, people’s lives, different interpretations of
collective ideals.
I also have a unique opportunity because I am fluent in Danish and I
established good relations with Christianites.
2 Methodology I will approach the social life through the method of
participant observation. This method includes various operations in the
field. This approach requires from a researcher to establish and
maintain a long term relation with his/her research subjects.
3 Communication of the project I expect to communicate the results of
this project among the academic community of social anthropologists in
the Baltic States, Denmark and elsewhere. My intention defines the
method of distribution. I expect to publish one article in an academic
journal. The second method is that of public lecturing. Since, the name
of Christiania is well known abroad, quite often I was asked to give a
public lecture. I intend to continue with giving public lectures on
various issues in Christiania.
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of February 2011
Mark Sauer
Studies
Criminology at Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
"Tryghed – Tillid til OverDanmark"
En opgave om tryghed for nogle af de borgere, som lever med
høje risiko(risikofaktorer) og udsathed. Risikofaktorer der
rør sig dynamisk i samfundet, såsom
bandekonflikten, mediernes skrivelser, politikernes involvering og
politiets strategi over for borgerne på Christiania.
Ordet tryghed er på det nærmeste blevet trend at
bruge. Tryghed bliver nævnt hos politiet, som et centralt
punkt for at kunne analysere, om hvorvidt deres virksomhed
formår at udøve nødvendig
hjælp og støtte til borgere i Danmark.
Målinger og forskning analyserer hvilke faktorer der kan
være udslagsgivende for, om man føler sig tryg.
Trygheden er generelt høj i Danmark, men tryghed
hænger unægteligt sammen med andre faktorer, som
måden, vi lever og oplever verden omkring os på.
Dataindsamling.
Spørgeskema undersøgelse (Kvantitativt) forventet
100 pers.
Interview (kvalitativt) forventet 10 pers.
Opgaven vil blive gjort tilgængelig for studerende
på
Københavns universitet samt benyttet under foredrag for
myndigheder og kommuner.
Efter at opgaven er blevet evalueret på Københavns
universitet af vejleder (Flemming Balvig) og bedømt, ville
det
være muligt at kunne læse den og booke et foredrag.
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January 2011
Alexandros Tsakiridis
Student from
Greece, studying in the Faculty of Social Sciences of Copenhagen
University, Political Sciences.
"One field in
which I am very much interested in, is Utopias and Social Experiments.
In this way, being in Denmark is a great opportunity for me to discover
at first hand the organization of Freetown Christiania and try to
deeply apprehend the way of life and culture of being a christianite.
In the light of
this evidence, I am attending a course named 'Collective Identities'
and the subject of my exam paper will try to deal with the Christiania
Discourse and in consequence the Christianite Identity. Practically, it
will be a deep approach of the political public language that
Christiania uses to propose its political project and in these terms a
great opportunity to experience the particular identity of the
'christianite'. The theory on which I will base my analysis, is
post-structuralism and more specifically critical discourse analysis.
Moreover, i will use Lacanian approach to social and political analysis
and Zizek's -who builds on the psychoanalyst thinker- theory on
Utopias."
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January 2011
Silla Virmajoki
Finnish
Photographer. a student of NORTH KARELIA COLLEGE,
Joensuu,
Technology and
Culture.
Her goal is to make a photographic research of today's
inhabitants' lives in the freetown.
She
wants to explore
-how
people in Christiania live
-how
the system works
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see and show how the
pressure coming from outside affects the community
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why it is worth of
protecting.
http://cargocollective.com/sillasimone
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December2010
Robert Listwan
Visual artist
from Poland setting up his exhibition in Gallopperiet
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of November 2010
Henrik Busk
Preparations
for an exhibition "Tales on Det Ny Samfund". Det Ny
Samfund
started
up alternative camp "Thylejren" in North West Jutland 1970.
Henrik Busk
Homepage
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November 2010
Samuel Lancaster
Jakobsen. RUC
An
investigation of the opinion of Christianites
upon the
City of Copenhagen planned bicycle road through Christiania.
5 participants from Roskilde University (a project under
Plan,
City and process) set up their office.
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of October 2010
Andras Vegh
Hungarian
visual artist setting up his exhibition at
Gallopperiet.
Andras Vegh
Homepage
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Marianne Rydvald
Artist.
Restoring her wall
painting at the Christiania Corner Entrance
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Lindsay Cottam
writing an article for "Big Issue" (homeless magazine in UK)
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- 1st of September 2010
Emily
Weinstein
Emily Weinstein
is currently at work on a book about self-governing
communities,
autonomous zones, alternative lifestyles.
The research and writing she
has already conducted includes her travels through virtually
self-governing corners of rural Northern California, as well as the
anarchist compounds of Germany and Austria. It is her mission to both
observe and become a part of various outsider, self-governing, and
otherwise resistant cultures, so that her writing comes from firsthand
experience. She comes to CRIR with a number of questions. Among these
are; How does the process of making a transient or temporary community
more permanent strengthen or threaten its original stated goals? How
does an autonomous community in an urban center differ from one that is
isolated in the wilderness?
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CRIR researcher Amy
Starecheski talks at
Ungdomshuset
Every
free state needs
its own caution tape, with its own flag, photo Amy Starecheski
Come to the book café at Ungdomshuset Overdrevet at 8 PM on
Thursday, August 19 for a talk and slide show by NYC squatter,
anthropologist, oral historian and current Christiania Researcher in
Residence Amy Starecheski. Amy will tell the story of
squatting in New York City, from the South Bronx to the Lower East
Side, using photographs and oral histories. The talk will be followed
by a discussion about the implications of legalizing squats, in
Copenhagen and elsewhere.
As Overdrevet (Ungdomshuset) settles into their new, legal space, and
Christiania continues to try to negotiate a legal agreement with the
state, let’s come together to discuss the legalization of
squats and compare experiences. The talk and the discussion will take
place in English and are free of
charge. Before the talk, at 7 p.m., a vegan folk kitchen will be served
at the price of twenty DKK.
Please feel free to contact Amy at amy.starecheski@gmail.com if
you’re interested in participating in her research on the
legalization of squats in Copenhagen and NYC.
Read
the announcement here
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ROlAnDO POLITI with KAPS
& LIDS
Rolando Politi is an
artist from the
lower east side of NYC his
philosophy is to elevate trash waste and garbage to a higher ZEN LEVEL
OF RESPECT since trash still has a negative connotation rather than
being considered a resource in most places and it is looked upon as
INVISIBLE. In CRIR he will collect, repackage and
re-distribution
all
types and sizes of KAPS & LIDS and possibly patent or copyright
the
assembly & doweling system. The concept is parallel to LEGO but
unlike LEGO the KAPPO system would not of course use vergin
resources and more importantly it would stimulate a "circular"
creativity
rather than a "square" one. Since LEGO was born in Danmark it seems
normal to me that KAPPO should also spawn out of Danmark.
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Fagner Marçal
from Brazil researcher in CRIR
Fagner
Marçal is a Brazilian Architect with a particular interest
in how relationships are formed between temporary artistic activities
and public space. While at CRIR, he will explore the
particularities of Christiania's open spaces and how they are
perceived and used.
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CRIR call for
applications
The
CRIR
house photo Amy Starecheski
We are happy
to announce that CRIR will continue in our current house till at least
September 2011 with possibility for prolongation. We are looking
forward to hear your thoughts, projects and research proposal
for
residencies in the timespan September 2010 - September 2011
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Community
Experiments
in Collaborative Homes and
Lifestyles
Helen Jarvis (PhD)
is
an urban social geographer from
Newcastle
University, UK. She came to Christiania (with her 8 year old daughter
Miriam) in May/June 2010 to explore, ethnographically, the social and
spatial organisation of homes and daily life in different areas of the
community. Her research methods involved photography, sketch
drawings, conversational interviews and participant observations from
visits made to a number of different homes. (The fact that her daughter
made friends with Christianitter children also provided unexpected
insight of home and family life.) Her close study of living
arrangements in Christiania forms part of a wider international project
to learn about different collective and collaborative living
arrangements and the patterns of social and material architecture
required to support sharing and a less individualistic and energy
intensive lifestyle. Other case studies include cohousing in the USA,
Denmark and Sweden, housing cooperatives, ecovillages and intentional
communities in the UK and Australia.
Helen can be contacted by email on Helen.jarvis AT ncl.ac.uk
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Brindalyn Webster at CRIR
As
Christiania's Researcher in Residence from May 13-21 2010, Brindalyn
Webster spent her time collecting oral histories and definitions of
normalization from Christianites, filming Christiania's landscape and
planting a catnip forest for feral cats. A resulting project will be
shown soon at: www.brindalyn.com
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Päivi
Kymäläinen & Sami Rannila
Päivi
Kymäläinen is an adjunct professor in urban geography
at the
University of Turku
(Finland)
and
Sami Rannila is an environmental theatre director at Linnateatteri.
They
stayed at CRIR house in May 2010. The purpose of their stay was to get
new
ideas about the alternative usages of urban public spaces and about the
unconventional
ways of participating in the development of one’s
neighborhood. Kymäläinen
and Rannila are also interested in
how the special legal status of Christiania
is
reflected in the sity of Turku.
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2010
Alberto Vanolo
Alberto Vanolo is
carrying on a research concerning
Christiania as a
creative space. In fact, the Free Town is arguably a lively innovative
milieu, nurturing arts, social experimentations, ideas and original
architectural solutions. Beside the fact that, from this perspective,
Christiania is becoming more and more a relevant space in the eyes of
the market economy and in the promotion of an idea of
“creative
Copenhagen”, the aim of the research is to analyse how much
of
its creative potential is connected to the specificities of the local
social framework, and particularly to the limitation of many market
logics and pressures. If interested in a draft version of the paper,
please contact by email: http://web.econ.unito.it/vanolo
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April 2010
Cheryl J. Fish, New York
How does Christiana's
challenge to privatization enable
certain
sustainable and artistic outcomes? How is it a model community, and
what lessons can be learned? How does the community of
Chrisitania represent itself from the inside, and how has its
reputation changed over time? I spent 10 days at Christiania
in late March/early April, 2010, interviewing residents, and met with
activist/artist Britta Lillesøe to get a sense of the recent
film project she is working on, and she talked about Christiania's own
"bottom meeting" during the large Climate Change Summit in
Copenhagen. This is part of a larger project on alternative communities
in Scandinavia, and how writers, filmmakers and activists are
conceptualizing the "ecosocial,"which focuses on traumatized cultural
histories that play out in built as well as natural environments. I
have written about American literature, film and architecture, and how
it intersects with environmental justice activism , and have spent time
in Scandinavia as a Fulbright scholar and researcher. Even though I
spent only a short time in Christiania , I found hope and frustration
there among different residents, and different visions for its future
in light of the meaning of its past..It is a fascinating place that
captures the imagination and evokes the potential for synergy and
collabation--Perhaps I will return and continue this
research. Cheryl J. Fish, Ph.D., Professor of English, City
University of New York.
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Miriam golja
Miriam
Golja in front of their squat JallaJalla in AKC Metelkova, Ljubljana
Slovenia
Miriam
Golja was
giving a talk about Metelkova;an autonomous
social center in the middle of Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is located on
the site of former military barracks and was squatted September 1993.
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Open CAll for 2010
Christiania
Researcher in Residence (CRIR) offers residency for artists and
academic researchers from January 1st to September 1st 2010.
Read
the entire open call for 2010
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Claire Robinson
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Claire
Robinson is a BSc student studying Photography, with the university of
Surrey. She has a specific interest in social documentary and
community based projects.She came to Christiania to document the
commune from an outsiders point of view. Claire has been in CRIR on two
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CRIR
has a new space
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We
welcome new
applications
From
now on and until 1. September 2010 and with possibility for
prolongation we can continue our activities in Grønnegadehuset
at Mælkebøtten in Christiania. We hereby also call
for new
applications and proposals for the coming year. CRIR
is Copenhagens longest running independent residency program
for
Danish and international artists and researchers to study matters
related to selforganization and all aspects of life in Christiania.
Read more about the application procedure above in how to apply.
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Christiania - Our heart
is in your hands
A
screening of a work-in-progress documentary film
By Richard Jackman and Robert Lawson
Time;
Thursday the
14th of May at 20:00
Place: Mælkebøttens Fællesrum,
Christiania.
50
minutes in
English. A
short discussion will follow the screening.
Featuring:
Anton
Ryslinge,
Bente Morén, Nis Jensen, Cornelius C.L. Corneliussen, Lars
Haugaard, Hélène-Claire Jensen, Kristian
Lyk-Jensen and
Anders Thorsen.
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69 filmen i
mælkebøtten
Still fra filmen |
Filminstruktør
Nikolaj Viborg,
der er resident i CRIR i denne
måned viser filmen 69 i
Mælkebøttens
Fællesrum på Christiania, Torsdag den 23.
april kl 20
Alle er
velkomne.
Læs mere her og se traileren: www.69filmen.dk
Nikolaj er startet på en film om Christiania og vil
følge udviklingen på CA over en længere
periode.
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2009
Premiere at Byens Lys
CRIR and CreActive
Sisters
Filmhouse shows Antonia & Maja´s film "Bevar
Christiania" in
Christianias cinema "Byens Lys". The screening is the 18th of Marts
2009 at 20:00.
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of March 2009
Claudio Dolores IS
resident in march
Monday
the 9th of March at 19.00
Concert at VerdensKulturCentret Nørre Allé 7
The Brazilian artist and musician Claudia Dolores performs her own
songs and compositions with backing from local musicians
Tuesday 10th of March at 19:00
Documentary and talk, at
VerdensKulturCentret Nørre Allé 7
Claudia
Dolores tells about life in the areas where people don't own land and
about womens situation there. She will also show a documentary film.
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CRIR IN
TRANSITION
We are moving out of the
house we
have been using for the past years and we are therefor looking into
other
possibilities for continuing CRIR. We
will post on mailing lists internationally and on this page if /when we
accept new applications. We wish to thank the residents at
Mælkebøtten for hosting the project until now, as
well as
for the hospitality we and the residents have met in
Mælkebøtten and throughout Christiania.
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movie by
CreaCtive Sisters Film House
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two
sisters; Antonia
and Maja Giannoccaro
have stayed with CRIR on two occasions in 2006 and 2007 and as a result
now
have produced a 83 minutes documentary about Chriatiania. They have
documented life and the everyday in
Christiania and have asked a number of socio-political questions to
residents on their relation to the rest of Copenhagen and life in the
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Evil Knievel; High on
Life
Galloperiet,
Christiania, 8. august – 31. august, 2008,
tirsdag-søndag kl. 12-18.
Fernisering: Fredag den
8.
august, kl. 19-24 (kollektiv performance kl. 21 og musik kl. 22-24).
Siden 2000 har Evil
Knievel
optrådt
på den internationale kunstscene med sine
spektakulære og udfordrende
performances. Nu er han kommet til Galloperiet på Christiania
med
udstillingen "Evil Knievel - High on Life". Udstillingen markerer
begyndelsen på en ny retning i hans værk, hvor han
udforsker den
amerikanske ånds forhold til spiritualitet gennem den
psykedeliske
kultur.
Under sit tre ugers ophold på Christiania vil Evil
Knievel således ikke blot udvide sit 'billedrepertoire', men
hele sin
professions koncept. Gennem meditation og sociale aktiviteter vil han
grunde og blive et med bevægelsen "High on Life!"
Udstilling
består af en installation og en performance. På
Galloperiet vil Evil
Knievel invitere indenfor i en totalinstallation af beduinertelt og
høstakke. Her kan publikum konsultere den litteratur han
studerer og se
hans nye serie af såkaldte motivation posters, billeder der
skal
inspirere dig til at opdage din egen, helt særlige
åndelige styrke. Det
er do-it-yourself coaching for dig der vil noget stort med livet,
ligesom Evil Knievel. Installationen vil også danne rammen om
en række
events, hvor film (torsdage) og mad (fredage) er medierne
til at udforske den amerikanske ånds spiritualitet.
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med
installationen vil Evil Knievel hver dag et sted på
Christianias
volde sidde i et hul under en baldakin og meditere 5 timer. Ved
udstillingens slutning vil han rejse sig, oplyst og begynde arbejdet
med High on Life. Information om meditationen indgår som en
del
af installationen på Galloperiet.
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Udstillingen
er kurateret af Jacob
Lillemose og støttet af Goethe Instituttet og de to
residency- programmer CPH AIR og CRIR.
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SLEEPING IN SPANDRELS
Christopher
Robbins and Douglas Paulson will be in Copenhagen Sleeping in
Spandrels, from 30 July to August 9, 2008. SPANDRELS are unplanned-for
spaces, forgotten architectural details, like the triangular space left
beneath a stairwell, between an arch and the ceiling, under a bridge,
behind a door: The term has been adopted by many professions to
indicate the re-use of structures for purposes other than the
originally intended - even body parts!
In this spirit of creating unintended uses, Douglas Paulson and
Christopher Robbins will turn the water-borne Spandrels of Copenhagen
into places to sleep. As part of Parfyme Deluxe's Harbour Laboratory,
they will scour the waterways of Copenhagen for spandrels, and build
structures for sleeping. Once they complete a structure, they will test
it by sleeping in it that night, and then move on to their next, or
else refine as needed, and re-test.
Now, this project will not take place in Christiania. Rather, it is an
attempt to apply Christiania-inspired ideals of alternative urban
architecture, collective ownership, and societal interventions into the
city of Copenhagen.
See
images from the projects
Download
a PDF describing the project as DIY
Se also: www.christopher-robbins.com & www.douglaspaulson.com
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The Higher
Academy of Happiness visits Christiania
The
world usually measures how well a
society is doing by its economy – GDP. There is a real
interest now
though in GNH – Gross National Happiness. Denmark is seen as
one of
the happiest places in the world. Christiania is its most famous
social experiment. The Higher Academy of Happiness has
therefore identified Christiania as
a model of practice to develop the criteria for their new Happiness in
the Workplace Awards..
The Academy’s consultant will be
conducting action research via work experience placements, dialogue
with random strangers, balloon games and time and motion studies. The
inquiry will use the arts and experiential learning to produce data
that defines good work and how it can be valued, and on job
satisfaction and well-being in the workplace. Residents will be asked
to engage as reflective practitioners in this groundbreaking research
to share what they know with each other and the world outside.
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Christiania's
Local History Museum.
A study by Rasmus Blædel Larsen
"Museums
perform their most fruitful public service by providing an educational
experience in the broadest sense: by fostering the ability to live
productively in a pluralistic society and to contribute to the
resolution of the challenges we face as global citizens."
(Hein/Alexander
1994)
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Primarily
based on research at the Copenhagen City Museum, at the library of
Museology and fieldwork at 7 local history museums in Denmark; the
project's aim is to present an economically feasible, an academically
viable and a location-sensitive model for a future history-museum about
Christiania. The project is part of an ethnological apprenticeship at
the City Museum of Copenhagen – and will result in a report,
which will
be endorsed by the Museum, then submitted to the University, and
finally serve as a possible starting-point for the creation of a local
history museum in/about Christiania. The Last phase of the project is
to register objects inside Christiania, which may be part of a future
collection. The objects are photographed, catalogued, and the story or
stories the object represents are documented – and hopefully
the result
will be a fine initial virtual collection of objects and a burlesque
edifying anthology of stories – which may serve as the
cornerstone of a
future 'House-of-Experiences-so-Far'.
Support
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objects, photographs, documents, reports, ideas - are wholeheartedly
appreciated.
Rasmus
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Tania
Georgoupli from Greece IS resident
In
London
and thanks to my MA , I have come in
contact , with various
journalists from all over the world . And although all of them
follow the news I was surprised to find out that only one or of them
know the story of Christiania . That motivated me to dedicate my
Thesis project , a fifteen minute documentary for radio to
Christiania and its current situation . My project will look into the
problems that Christiania is facing with the government, what will
be done after the decision taken on the 2nd of July . At the same time will try to lively present the real life
of Christiania , with the help of the citizens and their stories in an
effort to explain to the audience how does this community exactly
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May 2008
TO LIVE OUTSIDE THE LAW
YOU MUST BE HONEST
(Update)
The film about law and
justice in Christiania made by Nicoline van Harskamp during her CRIR
residency has
been screened and exhibited in the following places:
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September
2008, Taipei Biennial, Taipei
www.taipeibiennial.org
February 2008, Gasworks, London
February 2008, Shedhalle, Zürich
January 2008, International Film Festival, Rotterdam
November 2007, Insa Art Space for the Arts Council Korea,
Seoul
September 2007, ACU cinema, Utrecht
September 2007, Galopperiet, Christiania
July 2007, Libertarian Party of the Netherlands
June 2007, Dutch Anual Anarchist Meeting
April 2007, Arsenal Art, Poznan
March 2007, Casco Projects, Utrecht |
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Uta koegelsberger
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Uta
has been working on the Paradise series.
Watch a conversation with lisa Le Feuvre below about the work below:
http://www.utakogelsberger.com/work/paradise/index.htm
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CRIR
LOOKING FOR NEW APPLICATIONS!
As we
have the
possibility to continue using the wonderful house at
Mælkebøtten till at least the 1st of November 2008
we now
welcome applications for a residency at the CRIR. In general we grant
stays of 2-3 weeks at a time unless the specific project needs a
different time frame. We consider applications on a running basis, so
the sooner we receive it the better
Take a look at the menu above: "how to apply".
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Paths Through Utopias,
Isa Fremeaux & John
Jordan
Activist
and artist John
Jordan and Isa
Fremeaux have
visited CRIR in march and
April as a part of a dvd and publishing
project. John Jordan was among other things a central figure in the
creation of the Reclaim
the Streets movement."Paths
Through Utopias" is a book/dvd project which explores the possibility
of pragmatic utopias existing within a deeply dystopian historical
moment. It involves a 7 month journey across Europe visiting
approximately 15 Utopian experiments. These range from a low impact
permaculture community living in benders on a hill in Devon to a
squatted Somalian embassy run by refugees in Brussels, from an
anarchist School that has existed for 20 years in southern Spain to an
occupied factory on the Edges of Belgrade.
See a short presentation here
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2008
Public Pen-Pal Project
For
just a bit more than two weeks in January I got to live in
Christiania’s researchers in resident apartment in
Mælkebøtten and
wander around Christiania and Copenhagen hearing the exciting stories
of the free city, how some of you got here and what it means to you.
Now
I’m looking to share those stories a bit wider with a Public
Pen-Pal
Project (PP-PP). One part community development research, one part art
project PP-PP is looking for a few people in Christiania who are
willing and interested in exchanging letters and stories with public
housing residents in Toronto, Canada. While these two communities are
very different one thing they both have in common is that they are
facing the threat of being removed through government sponsored
gentrification. Whether it’s called normalization, or as in
Toronto
revitalization, this new development is threatening to erase the
everyday stories that make these palaces unique.
www.publicpenpal.blogspot.com
public.pen.pal@gmail.com
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CHRISTIANIA'S
SYMBOLISM, Rosario Ugarte
Christiania’s
symbolism is an ongoing photo documentary project which looks forward to to
understand Christiania’s ideas, foundations and beliefs in
order to identify its
contribution to our global society and the coming generations.
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Inger Wold Lund; U·to·pi·a
 
Entering
Christiania
with the Ferdinand Institute, on the quest for Utopia I quickly came
to realize that my trip would take unexpected turns. Things were
different than I had expected. I was different than I had expected. I
found it hard to include people in my work. I put up posters for
people to write on if they had any ideas of where Utopia was to be
found, but the answers didn’t get me far. “Et sted
i Skåne”
(a place in Skåne), “Et rent offentlig
toalett” (a clean
public toilet) and “Om du blot ville hengive dig til
mig” (if you
would simply surrender yourself to me) seemed like solutions better
then the ones I had come up with, but they didn’t get me
there. I
felt naïf. What superpowers did I think I had, getting myself
out on an expedition like that? I really wasn’t feeling very
well.
And I was wearing my heart in short sleeves. It was not even
springtime.
Deciding
to follow
in the
old explorers footsteps I got hold of several maps of Copenhagen. I
trusted my gut feeling, Utopia was to be found, but I realized that
my sense of direction couldn’t be trusted. Inspired by
Christiania’s slogan “Christiania, you have my
heart”, and my
own dubious bloodsupplier, I drew a number of routes shaped as
hearts. I took the bike that so generously was offered to me and
biked away. In heart shapes. Looking for Utopia. Sometimes people
joined me. Sometimes I met people on the road. Sometimes I invited
them for dinner. One time I biked farther then I had the powers to
do. I got really angry, and didn’t even appreciate the albino
deer
that popped out around every corner, although that’s the kind
of
thing that I have seen pictured on drawings of Utopia. I am still not
sure if I passed Utopia. Once, inside Christiania, while lying in a
fine mans arms he told me that what I was looking for was right
there. I don’t know though.
I
visualized my
trips. I
found that the best way to show what I was doing. Inspired by the
esthetics I saw around me in Christiania, I used thick black marker
on the maps I had gotten hold of. All I left visible was the heart I
had biked the outline of. It felt right. That was as far as I could
see, and as close as I could be. I gave one map away to the man that
said I had found Utopia. He said he wished I would stay, but I left.
(3
weeks later I
found out
that the reason I was not feeling well was anemia)
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WATCHING
THE DANISH GOVERNMENT, Jonathan trayner
After
arriving in here I realised that I did not want to look at Christiania
but from it, this place has so many observers wanting to learn its
supposed secrets, some benign some less so, and I did not feel that I
wanted to do this.
I was interested in the whole ‘paranoia’ about
surveillance
that we all have, control over our image and our identity, combined
with the collection of huge amounts of unnecessary data that
governments and companies store on our actions and movements.
This is particularly close to the surface in a place like Christiania
at a time like this. I decided therefore to go out into
Copenhagen and secretly film the people going in and out of various
government buildings, mainly parts of the Finance Ministry as they now
deal with Christiania. This was for me a form of symbolically
redressing the balance; you film us, we film you.
Read the
article here
The
weblink for the video is:
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16th
December 2007
Christiania: Our Heart
is in Your Hands
By
Richard Jackman and
Robert Lawson, Bus No. 8 will be screened on Sunday, 16
December
at 19:00 in Byens Lys in the Fabriken building in Christiania. The
video is about 40 minutes and there will be a brief question and answer
period following.
See the website: www.busno8.com
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03rd November
Angela Dorrer in CRIR
New resident for
November is Artist Angela Dorrer. You can follow her project at the
Urban Pilgrim homepage where you can also take part by filling in
the
questionnaire. Go
to Urban
Pilgrims homepage
Download
the
press release for the Christiania project
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01st
of October
Cyrano from Brazil,
resident in October
Cyrano
has been working
in a variety of social justice organizations and have been here to
learn from Christiania and put these experiences back to use in Bazil
read his blog here
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09th
of October
Seminar on Democracy in
christiania
Thursday
the 11.th of October at 20:00 at Gallopperiet
What is
needed to regain trust in the communal meeting?
When it's the same Christianites coming again and again, is it then
because of an in-efficient meeting form?
Is the communal meeting to be strengthened or shut down?
CRIR
invites you for an evening about democracy in
Christiania.
Introduction by Jakob Kærgaard,
who
has studied the structure of Christiania's meetings during the communal
meeting in the spring.
Read
his study
and proposals here (pdf)
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6th of October 2007
Exhibition; CRIR
2004-2007 at GAllopPeriet
We
display
research and
projects made in the last three years in connection to CRIR. It can be
seen 6th-28th of October inside Christiania at the Gallopperiet.
download the list of
artists
(.doc in Danish)
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September 2007
3rd Generation
Christiania
Allan
Alfred Birkegaard
Hansted is resident at CRIR in September in relation to a
research for a film about the youth in Christiania centering round
Rosinhuset that is also situated in mælkebøtten.
"
How to rebel in a society that is already in a state of rebellion? How
do the young people relate to the world outside the town of Christiania
and how are they perceived from the outside? How is it being a teenager
living in a different society?"
Read
a short
description of the film here (pdf 5 Mb)
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17th
of July 2007
Kayle Brandon: THE Dogs
of christiania
Kayle
is
revisiting CRIR to finish her study of the dogs of Christiania, above
animation by Kayle Brandon 2007.
See the Site here: http://irational.org/kayle/dogs
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4th
of July 2007
Guests from Bethanien in
Berlin
at CRIR
They
have been making an exhibition at Gallopperiet, press below:
Desire
squat resist
Bethanien
meets
Christiania 7. – 29. July.
I
hjertet af
Kreuzberg
står Bethanien – det først besatte hus i
Berlin.
Siden December 1971 har forskellige grupper beboet, kæmpet
for -
og brugt det statelige gamle sygehus. Siden nedlæggelsen af
sygehusfunktionen i 1960´erne har kommunen ønsket
at
skille sig af med ejerskabet – nedrivning, privatisering og
en
række visionsløse lokalplaner har konstant truet
husets
eksistens. Men husets skiftende beboere har aldrig givet op og i
efteråret 2006, efter en intens forhandlingsrunde og politisk
lobbyisme, lykkedes det at få en lovliggørelse
på
plads og signeret af de stridende parter. Nu forestår den
vanskelige og konfliktrige udmøntning af aftalen.
Vækker
denne beskrivelse et déjá vu i læseren,
så
kom på Gallopperiet - se og lær om hvordan man
organiserer
sig i Berlin - Tyskerne kommer!!
Der
vil blive vist
film og foranstaltet div. Udvekslingsaftaler.
Gallopperiet,
Stadens Museum for Kunst, 1440
Christiania,
Loppebygningen.
Åbent
Tir.-Søndag 14-19. Fri entre. Fernisering:
Lørdag
7. juli kl. 15.
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5th of May 2007
Anders Lund Hansen
Resident in May
Anders
Lund
Hansen is a researcher and teacher at the Department of
Social and Economic Geography, Lund University. Lund Hansen has a Ph
Licentiate and PhD degree in Human Geography from Lund University, and
a BA in Geography and MSc in Human Geography, both from University of
Copenhagen. In the fall terms of 2002 and 2004, he was visiting
research scholar at Center for Place Culture and Politics, The Graduate
Center of the University of New York (CUNY). Anders Lund
Hansen’s
special interests are political economy, urban social theory, uneven
development, urban space wars, globalization, gentrification, urban
politics and property markets. For five years he has been an elected
board member of the non-profit housing assosiation Lejerbo
København.
Through this work he has taken active part in the production of the
urban space of Copenhagen. He also experiments with filmmaking.
Read
an article for the
local paper "Christianshavneren"
about the rebuilding of "Cigarkassen"
( .doc format in Danish)
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4th of April 2007
Kayle Brandon: THE Dogs
of christiania
British
artist Kayle Brandon is going to make a work that comments on how the
social and politic relations of humans extends beyond the realms of
human concern into non-human lives and laws. Project title;
”The
dogs of Christiania”
http://irational.org/kayle
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25th of March 2007
Jo Zahn resident in march
Jo
Zahn, a
video artist from Hamburg, is doing a communicative
research for a film, which will be broadcasted at the local
Copenhagen TV station tv-tv. Jo wants to
research the relations christianites have to the pictures often shown
of Christiania. How could
Christiania be represented in relation to the many different
perspectives of people living there?
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12th of March 2007
Papers from the seminar
On
the 15th of February CRIR organised a discussion event at Kunsthallen
Nikolaj in Copenhagen in connection with Nicoline van Harskamp's video
installation "To live outside the law you must be honest".
Here you can
read papers by professor Eric Clark and Dr. Jamie Stapleton
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Open Call
CRIR
is seeking research proposals, deadline 20th of February 2007
Read
the Open Call
here.
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CRIR researcher Nicoline
van Harskamp shows at
Nikolaj, Copenhagen
Contemporary Art Center.
Stills
from "To Live Outside the Law You Must Be Honest..."
The
Exhibition opens 10th of February and run till 25th of March 2007
Nicoline
van
Harskamp will show a 3 part video work based on Christiania research:
"To
Live Outside
the Law You Must Be Honest..."
The
videos deal
with how to
make, enforce and judge law in a free state. It is based on dialogues
with residents in Christiania and with libertarians and anarchists in
London.
SEMINAR
I
In
relation to the
exhibition there will be a seminar with and about CRIR
15th
of February
2007 at 7-9 pm
Place:
Nikolaj
With
Lise Autogena
(CRIR)
Erik
Clark
(University of Lund)
Dr.
Jamie
Stapleton (Birkbeck School of Law, London)
Emmerik
Warburg
(Lives in Christiania, CRIR)
Ditlev
Nissen (ex
Christianit, consultant in sustainability)
FILM
NIGHTS:
Thursday
evenings
at Nikolaj there will be screenings of new and documentaries about
Christiania.
1st
of March: Lov
& Orden i
Christiania, Nils Vest, 9 min, 1974, Lov &
Orden i
Christiania 2, Nils Vest, 28 min, 2003
8th
of March:
Christiania - Du har mit hjerte, Nils Vest, 60 min, 1991
15th
of March:
Circus Krigen, Jørn Balther, 40 min, 2005
22nd
of March:
Kulturkrigen, Jørn Balther, 40 min, 2006
Read
the
article in the newspaper Politiken (in Danish)
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26th of December 2006
Maria
Pranzo (Italy)
Will
be CRIR researcher through February 4th 2007 on a sociological research
financed by Sapienza Rome University.
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November
2006
From
CRIR researcher Michael Baers:
 The
comic strip "What
is the Mystery" published in
"Ugespejlet" read it online
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3rd of November 2006
CRIR at "public works"
london
 
CRIR
did a presentation in at Public Works London followed by dinner
Contributions
by
Lise Autogena,
Åsa Sonjasdotter, Emmerik Warburg, Jens Brandt, Nicoline Van
Harskamp, Jamie Stapleton, Neil Chapman & Martin Wooster and
Michael Baers.
www.publicworksgroup.net
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2nd
October 2006
Half
Machine Café in the Grey Hall
Three
Dancers from Berlin are staying in the CRIR-residency, while
participating in Half Machine Café.
Johanna,
Jaro and
Francesco.
Thursday,
Oct. 5.
through Sunday Oct. 8.
Program
in
english
Flyer in
.pdf
Half Machine Homepage
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5th
of September 2006
Richard
Jackman and Robert Lawson
Video documentarists Richard Jackman and Robert Lawson (Seattle, WA,
USA) will be in Christiania from 16 September through 29 September,
shooting the documentary "our heart is in your hands"
Please
write to
busno.8@gmail.com for more info.
Info about "Our Heart is
in Your
Hands"
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1st
of September 2006
Update
The
CRIR house has yet
some time to go, as the Maelkeboetten Meeting has not decided what to
do.We hope that the house can accommodate scientists and artists for
another 6 - 8 months.
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29th
of August 2006
SARAH
MINTER in The Grey Hall
Video
and discussion
Tuesday
29
August at 22.30 hrs
Mexican
video
artist Sarah
Minter has been working this summer at the CRIR house making a
video about and for Christiania.
She
will present
some excerpts of a Work in progress
MULTIVERSE
1 a
visual symphony about Christiania
Also
previous
video pieces will be screened.
Sarah Minter is a well
known
video artist and teacher from Mexico City.
This
is her second
visit to Christiania
Click
for more
info:
Sarah
Minter
www.video-mexico.org/intervalos
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- 27th of August 2006
German
artist couple: Dellbrügge & de Moll
"Perfect
location"
www.perfectlocation.de
Download
the
Questionnaire here!
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- 28th of July
Nicoline
van Harskamp
Dutch
artist. Nicoline was here last year doing research.
This
time she is
doing:
She
wrote last
year:
"SELF-POLICING
AND
NEIGHBOURLINESS IN THE FREETOWN OF CHRISTIANIA
-looking
for
stories, opinions and historical material!
From
November 17th
to December
4th, I am working in Christiania as a ‘Researcher in
Residence’, trying to learn something about the way the
Freetown
is organised.
In
my art
practise, I work with
the idea that public space is in many ways owned by the people who
spend the most time using it or watching it- professionally, out of
curiosity, out of boredom or otherwise.
I
have made
projects in which I
interviewed and photographed security guards, police officers,
neighbourhood wardens and other professional street observers in
Istanbul, London, Glasgow, Rotterdam and Berlin. This ‘Guide
to
Guards’ series is about formal control structures, but I also
make work about informal structures, or social control, in cities."
Web
site: www.vanharskamp.net
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28th
of June - 17th of July 2006
Sarah
Minter
Video
Artist, video professor and curator from Mexico City.
Sarah
was here in
2002 in collaboration with Warburg and this time she wants to make a
video for Christiania.
Web
site:
Sarah
Minter
www.imdb.com/name/nm1334984
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13-28
June 2006
Vanja
Larberg
After
an appointment with Mitro from NIFCA we offer Vanja residency here.
Vanja
is a Swedish
architect from Gotemburg engaged in social perspectives of new housing
areas. She writes:
"The
possibility
to be part of
a network concerned with social perspectives on architecture is
thrilling. Since my graduation two and a half years ago I have been
struggling with what my way of being an architect looks like."
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28th
of May - 13th of June 2006
Half
Machine
Work
and exhibition visit
This
year half
machine is doing a 1 week program
Check
it out:
www.halfmachine.info
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- 27th of May 2006
Marianne
Rydvald
Marianne Rydvald working
on
restoring the painting (photo: The National Museum)
Work
Visit
Marianne
is here
doing a major repair on one of her mural paintings.
This
one (13 sq
meter) was
taken down from the Infohuset some years ago, and has been secured by
Marianne. It has now been bought by Nationalmuseet (Danish National
museum of History) intended to be used as the front for a major
exhibition on Christiania in 2007.
She
has later
received a grant from Kunststyrelsen including a flat and first class
workshop facilities
www.kunststyrelsen.dk/DIVA
www.natmus.dk/sw33144.asp (info in danish)
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- 27th of March 2006
Architectural
group
Research
Visit
Students
from Unit
10* from the
Architectural Association London together with Kathrin Böhm
and
Andreas Lang from the London based art/architecture collective public
works ** are going to visit the free town Christiania in Copenhagen in
March 2006.
www.publicworksgroup.net
www.mobileporch.net
www.gasworks.org.uk/layout
www.myvillages.org
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8th
of March 2006
Michael
Baers
Visual
artist Michael
Baers from California USA is here doing a preliminary research on a
cartoon series for Ugespejlet. He is also engaged in teachings in
Odense, so he will be here forth and back. Baers is presently living in
Friedrichshain, Berlin.
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of February 2006
Alicja
Lindert
Polish
Sociology student Alicja Lindert and Michal. (1 week). From Wroslaw.
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of February 2006
Linas
Svolkinas
Lithuanian
anthropologist Linas Svolkinas (University of Copenhagen) is on a long
term field study in Christiania, staying in CRiR.
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29th
of December 2005
Porter
Fox
Journalist
Porter Fox (New
York Times Magazine) is here for
9 days writing a background
article to be published this summer.
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19th
of November 2005
Nicoline
van Harskamp
Nicoline
van Harskamp will explore the idea of self-government and how this
relates to self-policing, neighbourliness and social control in the
freetown. She works with the idea that a city is a collection of
buildings and streets as well as a collection of memories, human
connections, narratives and networks can be discovered when looking at
informal urban structures.
www.vanharskamp.net
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of November 2005
Newspaper
article
The
Christiania focused newspaper 24timeravis.dk has published an article
about CRiR. Read
it before your neighbours.
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