Urban Artscape. - Projects
Urban Space as a Work of Art, where
everyone is an Artist/Poet/Author. 2004-2011.
A research through art and artistic
practices.
The City as a
Collection of Poetry
Værløse Bymidte den. 3 sept.
– 12 sept. 2004
Lyrik-installation / Bog / Digtsamling
Web
catalogue for the public art work / poetry installation and its participation
in ‘City Living – Living City | The 6th European Biennial of Towns
and Town Planners’ in the biennials ‘Street Creativity Exhibition’, where it
participated as one of 30 examples of street
creativity in Europe.
[Selected publications about the work]
Jan Hatt-Olsen. Byen som en
digtsamling. i Forfatteren September no. 4 – 2006. s. 12.
Jan Hatt-Olsen, Annemette Andersen-Hoppe Levende
digtsamling i byen. 15 Cases om kunstnere og virksomheder – mennesket i
innovations & oplevelsesøkonomien.
s. 25. Artlab, København 2007. s 25
(poet/artist Jan Hatt-Olsen
and cultural advisor in Furesø Municipality Annemette Andersen-Hoppe are interview about ’Værløse Bymidte d. 3. sept – 12 sept.
2004 | Lyrik-installation / Bog / Digtsamling’
and its implications in relation to the municipality and its citizens as a
whole and the downtown area of Værløse)
Jan Hatt-Olsen. The City as an Expression of Poetry. In
Western Humanities Review. Fall 2007: Western Humanities Alliance
Special Issue: What is a City, pp. 88-100, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 2007. Wayne McCready, Susan Bennett (guest eds.) PJ Carlisle (managing editor of WHR). pp. 88-100
(The article is a presentation of the
poetry-installation / public artwork ’Værløse Bymidte d. 3. sept – 12 sept. 2004 | Lyrik-installation
/ Bog / Digtsamling’ and its concept and implications
in relation to the city, to the concept of the book and poetry. Western Humanities Review is published tri-annually by University of
Utah. Western Humanities Review Volume 61 number 3 is made in collaboration
with Western Humanities Alliance and University of Calgary. It consists of
selected papers from Western Humanities Alliance 25’Th annual conference ’What
is a City’ hosted by University of Calgary 2006. The institutional
members of the Western Humanities
Alliance are: Arizona State University – University of
California, Riverside – Claremont Graduate University – University of
California, San Diego – Reed College – University of California, Santa Barbara
– Stanford University – University of California, Santa Cruz – University of
Arizona – University of Colorado, Boulder – University of Nevada, Las Vegas –
University of California, Berkeley – University of Oregon – University of
California, Davis – University of Southern California – University of
California, Irvine – University of Utah – University of California, Los Angeles
– University of Washington – Utah State University – University of British
Columbia – University of Calgary – Simon Fraser University)
Nicoletta Isar. Vision and
Performance. A Hierotopic
Approach to Contemporary Art. In Alexei Lidov (ed) Hierotopy. Comparative Studies
of Sacred Spaces. Indrik Moscow 2009. pp.
328-362.
(Nicoletta
Isar is PhD, Associated Professor in Art History at University of Copenhagen.
In this chapter she writes about experimental theatre (Antero Alli, Jerzy Grotowski), body art
(Marina Abramovic), performance (Bill Viola), and
urban space and street art (Jan Hatt-Olsen), in this part of the chapter
Nicoletta Isar is writing about ’Værløse Bymidte d. 3. sept – 12 sept.
2004 | Lyrik-installation / Bog / Digtsamling’)
http://hierotopy.ru/contents/ComparativeStudySacredSpaces_17_Isar_ContemporaryArt_2008_Eng.pdf
Gitte Marling, Hans Kiib, Ole B. Jensen. Experience City. DK, Aalborg University Press, Aalborg 2009.
(Gitte Marling, Architect
Ph.d., Professor at Institute for Architecture and
Design at Aalborg University. Hans Kiib, Architect Ph.d., Professor at
Institute for Architecture and Design at Aalborg University, Ole B. Jensen,
Sociologist Ph.d., Professor at Institute for
Architecture and Design at Aalborg University. The book is in Danish, 356 pages
and is the result of the research project Experience City – hybride
kulturprojekter og performative byrum (Experience
City – hybrid culture projects and performative urban
spaces)’ Værløse Bymidte as
a Collection of Poetry is described and analyzed pp. 30-31, with photos from
the poetry-installation p. 32, in the section performative
byrum (performative urban
spaces) in chapter 2 ‘Danske byer satser
på kultur projekter, events & byrum.’
(Culture projects, events & urban spaces get a central role in Danish
cities)
Jan Hatt-Olsen. Urban Space as a Collection of Poetry. In Gavin Goodwin and
Liam Murray Bell (eds)
Writing Urban Space (Zer0 books, Winchester 2011) forthcoming
The origin of the book project was a
conference at University of Surrey, English Department, Creative
Writing in April 2010. Writing Urban Space, arranged by Gavin Goodwin and Liam
Murray Bell . They contacted after the conference Zer0
books www.zero-books.net
, which were interested in making a book over the subject. Selected papers from the conference,
were expanded and re-written to be articles in the book. The editorial process
is completed. The book is expected to be published in the fall 2011.
Jan Hatt-Olsen The City as a Collection of Poetry
(The
version of this article published in Western Humanities Review has the title
‘The City as an Expression of Poetry’ and can only be acquired through the
volume of WHR or in a scanned version online through Encyclopædia
Britannica www.britannica.com )
The Cinescape Street
Creativity Charter
(2005,
a charter for street creativity in Europe presented at ’City Living – Living
City | the 6’Th European Biennial of Towns and Town Planners’)
Urban Artscape Mobile Unit - Sydhavnen
The Municipality as
a Work of Art | Urban Artscape - Furesø
(Presentation by poet/artist
Jan Hatt-Olsen at the international Metropolis Seminar – Biennale 2007 ‘The
City as a Stage and the Stage as a City’. The
seminar was the opening of the Metropolis project, 2007 – 2017
)
Urban Artscape participates
in Metropolis
Laboratory 2007 by creating a workshop ’Urban Space as an Artwork’ and by
making an installation/intervention ´Urban Alchemist in the Night’
[Selected publications about the work]
For a re-enchanted urban space. (Juul and Urban Artscape)
in Changing Metropolis, Via Design Copenhagen 2008. pp. 108-115)
(pp. 114-115 are written by
Jan Hatt-Olsen and Ásta
Olga Magnúsdottir about their intervention Urban
Alchemist in the Night)
Urban Artscape bidrag til AirPlay’s
’Mellem Byen’
( 2007. Udstillingen er en del af
Metropolis Biennalen)
Som en del af udstillingen er der udgivet en Manual, hvor AirPlay
skriver om de udstillede værker by installation og by interventioner se http://mellembyen.wordpress.com og derudover spurgt, Kunstner-aktører: Raca, Udflugt, Illumenart, Ditte
Maria Bjerg (Camp X), A-kassen (Christian Bretton-Meyer),
Jan Danebod, Parfyme, Urban ArtScape
(Jan Hatt-Olsen, Ásta Olga Magnúsdóttir), Thierry Colonel, Kenneth Balfelt. Arkitekter/socialt-urbane
aktører: Entasis, Mutopia,
Bosch & fjord, Urban Task Force om at svare på
to-tre af disse spørgsmål (efter eget valg) … og komme med i den
32-sider brugermanual, som giver en upretentiøs og forståelig indføring i Mellem Byen og kunst
generelt i byens rum.
Spørgsmålene
er:
Ásta og Jeg i Urban Artscape valgte at
svare på de to første af spørgsmålene.
Svaret kan læses i brugermanualen til
’Mellem Byen’.
Urban Wiki | Wiki Light 2007 – 2012. An exploration into an augmented urban space, where everyone is a
co-author. This exploration takes
place, through new media – public artworks, which are both on the internet and
in physical urban spaces, in workshops, conferences and publications. This
takes place inside the broader framework of urban space as a work, where
everyone is an artist/poet/author.
The exploration consist of
Artworks:
Urban Artscape
– Furesø 2007-2008 new media – public artwork (Furesø Municipality, Greater Copenhagen area, Denmark). Artscape Vollsmose 2008 new media – public
artwork (Odense, Denmark). Urban Wiki | Possibilities and Limitations
(Metropolis Laboratory 2008, Copenhagen)
Publications:
Jan Hatt-Olsen
(2008). Urban Artscape – Furesø
in Mediacity – Situations, Practices and Encounters
(Frank & Timme, Berlin 2008). Frank Eckardt, Jens Geelhaar, Laura Colini, Katharine S. Willis, Konstantinos
Chorianopoulos, Ralf Hennig
(eds.) pp. 263 – 283 (The book is a publication from the Mediacity
Project www.mediacityproject.com , Bauhaus-University in Weimar)
Jan Hatt-Olsen
(2009). Urban Spaces as a Work of Art | Imaginary Realism.
In Hans Kiib (Ed). Architecture and Stages of the Experience City pp. 313 -
321. ( Institute for
architecture and media technology,
Aalborg University, Aalborg 2009 )
To read the final version of the articles is necessary to acquire the
mentioned books.
The articles can be downloaded in last draft version from this website..
Jan Hatt-Olsen.(2008)
Urban Artscape
– Furesø
Jan Hatt-Olsen (2009). Urban Spaces as a Work of Art |
Imaginary Realism .
Urban Artscape – Furesø: English
Version
Artscape Vollsmose | WikiVollsmose
Urban Wiki |
Possibilities and Limitations Cross
Borders – Create Place
Urban Wiki | Wiki Light India 2012
Urban Wiki | Wiki Light
exhibited at Techfest 2012, IIT Bombay
Urban Wiki | Wiki Light
exhibited at Techkriti 2012, IIT Kanpur
Photos by cross media poet – artist Jan Hatt-Olsen
2012, Presenting a paper at ‘World Wide (Urban)
Wiki | Bookscapes in Metapolis’ at the conference
‘The Media of the Metapolis’ at Bauhaus
University, Weimar
Urban Wiki | Wiki Light Denmark – India 2013
Urban Wiki | Wiki Light exhibited at LiteraturHaus 16 March
2013
Urban Wiki | Wiki Light exhibited at Vyom 2013 at PEC
Chandigarh 15- 17 March 2013, look at Exhibitions and Megashows
Article in Indian
and Danes Co Create Now www.indiadenmark.in and photos by cross
media poet – artist Jan Hatt-Olsen
Bookscapes --
Imagination the imaginative --- writing reading urban space – alone, together
with others - people you know, strangers or just people passing by in the city.
Create urban space, metropolis, metapolis as urban imaginary
realism. Use Imagination to sense and express
space. The imaginative can be both heavier and lighter than stone. Much more
expensive and much cheaper, more open, more closed – nature will eventually
brake through stone – can some kind of imagination be such a dense matter that nothing can
pass through it. I hope not. But
stones, trees, water, wind, heath, cool, light, sound, smell, the sun the
shadows are beautiful too. They are co-writing and co-reading urban space in flux our imaginary
space our imaginations, porous, soft and fuzzy.
Of course do nothing William Blake wouldn’t have done.
Invent your own system
2012. Urban Space as a
Collection of Poetry. In Writing Urban Space, (eds.)
Gavin Goodwin and Liam Murray Bell pp. 99-106 (Winchester, Zer0 books) www.zero-books.net Publication date July 27