SEMINAR: FRESH EYES ON URBAN SPACE

International seminar highlights the relationship between art and urban space.

The seminar FRESH EYES on URBAN SPACE pulls back the focus from the usual tourist attractions in order to instead zoom in on life between the buildings and the hidden potential of the urban space. Artists, poets, researchers, and architects from around the world will together discuss arts’ relation to the city and how it is possible through art to rethink it.

On November 19th Galleri Image, and Aarhus Center for Literature in collaboration with Aarhus Center for Visual Art will conduct the all-day seminar FRESH EYES on URBAN SPACE. The seminar will focus on how in particular photography and literature can interpret and rethink urban space aesthetically, and artists, poets, architects, and researchers from all over the world will discuss the relationship between art, architecture, and the urban environment.

The programme will include the Australian professor of architecture Quentin Stevens, the Danish poet Søren Ulrik Thomsen, who among other things has authored a neon light mural poem in Valby, as well as the Korean photographic artist Hyun-jin Kwak, based in Sweden, and many others. Each will contribute a talk on how they individually use the city and the urban space in their work, which will lead into a collective debate on everyday life in the city and the hidden potentials of urban spaces. 

The seminar is an extension of the 2017-project FRESH EYES – International artists rethink Aarhus, which since 2013 has invited a string of authors and photographic artists to Aarhus in order to reinterpret Aarhus artistically. The project will culminate in 2017 with exhibitions in Vestergade and Grønnegade, readings, and the publication of a large art book.

The seminar is on November 19th at Godsbanen and begins at 10 am. Everybody is welcome. The event will take place in English.

The full programme will be published shortly.

The seminar is free but with regard to the catering of coffee and cake we ask you to send a non-binding sign-up e-mail to info@aabkc.dk.

FRESH EYES is supported by the City of Aarhus, European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017, The Nordic Culture Fund and Bikubenfonden.