"A traveling, collaborative tent city, an adjustable space for people to meet and work: This campsite is a temporary, physical rendering of a community that is spread across the world; a simple and powerful moment..."
(
Parfyme)
drnc made its tent from a fabric that is widely used on construction sites. the rest we found around nikolaj, in downtown copenhagen.
in the tent we combined an audio-loop with recently printed material from drnc and videos by related hamburg-based arists. on the inside-surface of the tent, visitors could use colored tape to expand a drawing.
videos included:
sky trees by ahl,
honig by schreibvogel/geisler/post,
einsammen by müller-berg
http://www.parfyme.dk/projects/tent-show/
http://www.kunsthallennikolaj.dk/en/index_subpage.asp?subpageIDX=286&mainpageIDX=96
the tent show
groupshow at nikolaj copenhagen contemporary art center
by
parfyme deluxe, copenhagen, dk, 2007
society produces a huge pile of things. most of it is developed for very specific use. seeing it being used teaches us to see and act in a way that is implicit in these things.
how can we approach some thing without letting preconceptions and
conventions determine our thoughts? our actions?
if a window can be a door and a bush can be a house - what does that
do to the view of a world of stable things?
stability as a matter of thought: the most flexible tent can be more stable than a house of concrete. even in a packed state it still is a tent for those living in- and transporting it. it is reassuring.
a house which is not transportable cannot give that security when you move. it leaves you and makes sensible of that distance. a big solid building takes up space (in a geographical sense) and or blocks that space in the mind.
ideas are like tents. you can transport them easily. you can unpack and modify them. they change with the surrounding. they change a little everytime you set them up.
the house is a definite answer. a tent is a permanent suggestion.
original proposal to dress kunsthallen nikolaj like a tent