UKK is pleased to invite you to How Artists Work: Alternative Spaces and Post-Studio Contexts – a performative walk hosted by UKK’s Art and Economics Working Group in collaboration with Golden Days.
Saturday, September 7th: Guided Walking Tour, 2:00 – 4:30pm
Meeting Point: Blågårds Plads
Address: Blågårds Plads, 2200 Copenhagen
UKK is pleased to invite you to How Artists Work: Alternative Spaces and Post-Studio Contexts – a performative walk hosted by UKK’s Art and Economics Working Group in collaboration with Golden Days.
In this event, the idea of work will be connected to the built environment by collectively visiting different sites of artistic production within the cityscape of Copenhagen. During the event, UKK will focus on alternative artistic “studios” or “work contexts” that highlight different architectural typologies such as reprogrammed or repurposed public buildings, cafes, storefronts, domestic spaces, and artist studios themselves.
The point of departure is to reflect upon work from an interdisciplinary perspective between artists and architects by providing perspective on how artists work in space in diverse ways that can create counter models of artistic, spatial, and cultural production. In Denmark, as gentrification makes cities less accessible, more artistic working and living solutions are needed, which raises questions – what types of spaces are needed where, what building techniques should be utilized, what artistic outcomes do they encourage, who has access to these spaces, a.o. As such, this event will introduce alternative and post-studio spaces to unpack interrelated processes between art, work, and urban development and highlight agencies artists can have within these processes.
The performative walking tour will be carried out by architect, curator, and UKK board member Lawrence Ebelle and artist, art organizer, and UKK chair Scott William Raby in Nørrebro along with collaborators Sorte Firkant, Skitse, The Hospital for Self-Medication, a.o.
*This event is free of admission. Sign up is encouraged (at info@ukk.community) as there is a 20 person limit. The event accessibility varies in relation to changes in the built environment – if you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. The performance will be presented primarily in English.
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Lawrence Ebelle (FR/US) is an architect, curator, art organizer based in Copenhagen. Her visual cultural practice encompasses different social-political and spatial questions across exhibition contexts and the built environment. She is a board member of Building Diversity, The Danish Association of Architects, and UKK, where she is a co-founder of UKK’s Art and Economy Working Group.
Scott William Raby (US/DK) is an artist, art organizer, and chair of UKK since 2022. His art practice often deals with rethinking political-economic, organizational, and (im)material infrastructures within artistic and broader social contexts. He currently lives in Aalborg and works collaboratively across various artistic projects and platforms, including f.eks., which he co-founded in 2018.
For more information about Golden Days visit Golden Days på arbejde..
This event is supported by Golden Days and UKK.