[spectre] 3 performances / Urban Pilgrims Copenhagen & Christiania

[Angela Dorrer]

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Urban Pilgrims Copenhagen & Christiania
Website, Survey, Performances 2007 / 2008

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.

Urban Pilgrimages are poetic urban extracts. They dig their way into the grain of cities and 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.

Thu Dec14th 07, 18:30 
Men and Women. Kings / performance and presentation at Julefrokost. 
Factory for Art & Design, Sundholmsvej 46, Copenhagen S

Thu Dec20th 07, 19:30 
Tales about Darkness. Jagtvej 69 / performance on one of the darkest days of the year. 
Jagtvej/ Ground69, old site of Ungdomshuset, Copenhagen N. (demonstration start 17:00 Blågårds Plads) 

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

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) 
Technical support / programming 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, City of Copenhagen, 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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