Invitation: come and help build Copenhagen again!
Olafur Eliasson's work,
The collectivity project
opens at R�dhuspladsen (The City Hall Square) at 4.00pm on Saturday October 11.
The Danish-Icelandic artist's contribution to U-TURN - Copenhagen's festival for contemporary art, is an urban planning experiment that encourages everyone to join the construction of a micro-Copenhagen.
Thousands of white LEGO bricks - potential buildings - will be piled on a tables shaped after an aerial view of Copenhagen.
The visitors can move freely between the tables, which each represent one of Copenhagen's various neighbourhoods, and are free to contribute with visionary, humorous or completely unrealistic proposals - come re-build the city of Copenhagen at the city's most central location!
The Collectivity Project will be displayed at R�dhuspladsen (The City Hall Square) in Copenhagen from 11 - 19 October 2008. Olafur Eliasson will be present at the opening at 4.00pm Saturday October 11.
Photo: Olafur Eliasson The collectivity project, 2005 Installation view at 3rd Tirana Biennial, Albania, 2005 Courtesy neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
The Danish-Icelandic artist's contribution to U-TURN - Copenhagen's festival for contemporary art, is an urban planning experiment that encourages everyone to join the construction of a micro-Copenhagen.
Thousands of white LEGO bricks - potential buildings - will be piled on a tables shaped after an aerial view of Copenhagen.
The visitors can move freely between the tables, which each represent one of Copenhagen's various neighbourhoods, and are free to contribute with visionary, humorous or completely unrealistic proposals - come re-build the city of Copenhagen at the city's most central location!
The Collectivity Project will be displayed at R�dhuspladsen (The City Hall Square) in Copenhagen from 11 - 19 October 2008. Olafur Eliasson will be present at the opening at 4.00pm Saturday October 11.
Photo: Olafur Eliasson The collectivity project, 2005 Installation view at 3rd Tirana Biennial, Albania, 2005 Courtesy neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York