[rohrpost] Tales about Darkness. Jagtvej 69 / Urban Pilgrims Copenhagen & Christiania

[Angela Dorrer]

i n v i t e  d e c 0 7 + *merry Xmas*
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Urban Pilgrims Copenhagen & Christiania
Website, Survey, Performances 2007 / 2008

Thu Dec20th 07, 20:00
Tales about Darkness. Jagtvej 69 / performance on one of the darkest days of the year. 
Jagtvej/ Ground69, old site of Ungdomshuset, Copenhagen N. This will be the end of the Thursday demonstration, which starts 17:00 Blågårds Plads. In cooperation with Kiwi from Ungdomshhuset. If you want to read dark tales (up to 10 min) please contact info at urbanpilgrims.org 

Mon Dec24th 07, during celebration 
Christmas 2007. Wishes for Christiania / performance. 
Donate your wish on urbanpilgrims.org
Den Grå Hal / Grey Hall, Christiania, Copenhagen S

Visuals / display of the urban pilgrims survey
Permanent. Tourist Information, Vesterbrogade 4A, Copenhagen V (+ on flickr)

If you could be the good fairy and had a wish free for Copenhagen or Christiania what would you wish? If Copenhagen or Christiania was a person, what kind of person would it be? Give us your opinion on urbanpilgrims.org and read the archives.
->http://urbanpilgrims.org/Copenhagen_Christiania/archiv

Urban Pilgrimages are poetic urban extracts. They dig their way into the grain of cities to find out what places and its people are really about. Participants get involved in individually tailored, dramatized performances about their city, based on an online survey, a blog and continuously growing internet archives. 
Urban Pilgrimages can take on various forms, such as behavioral instructions or procession-like journeys with collective movement, gesture, sound, props, food, music and personal encounters. The personalities and communities within the given place with their stories and emotions become the artistic material. Individual experience becomes a public field, which generates a new cartography of a place - the essential toolkit for the 21st century voyager.

The project developed through different public tours during the last years: Urban Pilgrims Vienna (2007), Pilgrimage for Calgary (2006), Pilgrimage for Edmonton (2005) and Pilgrimage for Munich (2004). Every city originates a complete new series of site-specific behavioral instructions, new rituals for the city. For example in Calgary the pilgrims performed a baroque dance, kissed pedestrians and sang a love song to the ducks. In Edmonton everybody turned their clothes inside out, called a suicide helpline and did the purple city performance. In Vienna participants ran on time on Heldenplatz, did a sugar burning at Michaelerplatz and visited a brothel and the entrance to the underworld.

Idea / realisation / design / update: Angela Dorrer (D) 
Programming / Technical support website: Patrick Gruban (D)  
Curator: Christian Skovbjerg Jensen (DK)  
Assisting Curator: Martin Johansen (DK)  
Supported by: CPH AIR Factory for Art&Design, CRIR Christiania Researcher in Residence, publik / action gallery. Info site kindly hosted by Wonderful Copenhagen / ispot  
Info www.urbanpilgrims.org, info at urbanpilgrims.org, +45 26165872

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Angela Dorrer [email] angela at andorrer.de
[cell denmark] +45 26165872
[skype] angela.dorrer  [e-fax] +49-(0)-12120-248202
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