Dag 7 – 23. februar 2010
Vi er på Jyllands Postens hjemmeside, og der er en
fotograf fra dem i huset! Han kommer her over 3
dage og dokumenterer slutfasen og ferniseringen.
Dele hele kommer så i Århus sektionen næste
weekend.
http://kpn.dk/billedkunst/article1989068.ece
Ant Colony Movie – Teaser
Artinavan Diary: Day 6
Today’s been a highly productive day here at the colony. After making a full English for the whole team we held a meeting to finalise ideas using yesterday’s maquettes. We’ve been hard at work this afternoon extending the interlinking bridges and chambers, which bring the whole space together. We’ve also added more seating and some shelving to the bar. The red light district has been filled with coloured lights and signs and we’ve almost finished painting the studio walls.
Artinavan are planning to work into the early hours tonight as tomorrow will be our last full day here in Arhus.
All the best,
Hannah Little,
Artinavan
Artinavan Diary: Day 5
Production today has been slower than usual, due to team moral in hangover mood after last night's pre-opening. We've all been absorbed in our own creative projects during the day, people have been experimenting with materials and the welding workshop saw its first piece of action. The collective have been working on video documentations and short films, and producing maquettes for possible large scale construction. We've also been exploring the local area, some of the group went down to the harbour to reflect on the week so far. Tomorrow's going to be an active day transforming the preliminary experiments into large scale finished articles.
All the best,
Hannah Little,
Artinavan
Dag 5 og 6 – 21.-22. februar 2010
Projektet er kommet på ArtLicks, en London-baseret kunsthjemmeside!
http://www.artlicks.com/events/299/artinavan-bureau-detours-collaboration
Artinavan Diary: Day 4
We've been hard at work getting the space ready for tonight's beta opening, a chance for people to see the project in progress. We've just finished for the day, the cocktails are ready and people are beginning to arrive. Everyone's looking forward to a hard earned break, and tonight gives us a chance to present everything we've achieved so far. The main structure's coming together, the bar, sound system, back alley brothel, swing, greenhouse, furniture and some of the instruments are set up and ready to go, and the space is beginning to resemble the idea of a collective colony. People have flown in from all over Europe to work with the Collective, we've got artists and designers from Denmark, London, Iceland and Finland all working as one.
Kind Regards,
Hannah Little
Artinavan
Artinavan Diary: Days 1-3
We arrived at the Bureau Detours studios here in Arhus, Denmark on Wednesday night and after a thorough guided tour of the space and local area, we got stuck in to some collective brainstorming. The group are working together to transform the studio space, a converted train warehouse, into a functioning habitat based on an ant colony. Ants are social insects who've existed over 600 times longer than humans, and their success has been attributed to their social organisation, ability to modify habitats and tap resources. It's been really interesting and fun drawing from the experience of such tiny creatures.
Bureau Detours have organised a big exhibition party tomorrow night to celebrate the collaboration and promote the installation. The collectives have been working together in teams of workshops for the last 24 hours, getting stuck in and constructing the first features of the space, making interlinking bridges and platforms, constantly developing ideas between the artists and designers. We've also begun to build chambers, a green house, a purpose built welding studio, speakers and a bar, over-sized musical instruments, a massive swing and even a red light district installation. The project also involves small groups gathering food every night for the rest of the 'colony', teams cooking and eating collectively.
Artinavan are cold, covered in sawdust and living as freegens.
If you have any questions about any of our antics, feel free to get in touch, if not I'll give you another update tomorrow.
Kind regards,
Hannah Little
Artinavan
Dag 3 – 19. februar 2010
Platform 1 er færdig og platform 2 bliver bygget færdig
i aften og i morgen tidlig, så de er klar til Beta-fernis i
morgen! Møbelstudio har bygget en kæmpe-gynge og
er nu i færd med at få et drivhus op at stå. Lys-studio
er sparket rigtig godt igang og røde lysstofrør er ved at
blive rigget op over det hele. Modelbyg-studio lavede
vinduesdekorationer til indgangen som lys-studio
placerer lys bagved i løbet af dagen. Mad-studio
har experimenteret, med kæmpesuccess, at lave
extremt billig, utrolig god mad. I dag står menuen på
bønnemos og champignon-ret.
Dag 2 – 18. februar 2010
Alle studios er i fuld gang. Møbel-studio er sat til at bygge
en stor gynge og bygge-studio er i fuld gang med at
klargøre de to første platforme. Lys-studio er ved at serie-
forbinde 15 store og små røde lysstofrør der skal belyse
platformene. PR-crew har besvaret mails og er i gang
med at skrive presse, logbog og ansøgninger.
Sketch-studio fabulerer over nye måder at tænke
arkitektur på og er nu i gang med at bygge modeller.
Dag 1 – 17. februar 2010
Alle drikker øl og bygger skæve konstruktioner i ispinde.
Brutal fest til kl. 2.
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Briterne er i hus. De er blevet vist rundt på området og
har fået mad og en kort instroduktion til projektet.
Resten af aftenen lyder på snak, hygge og øl.
Jens' møbelstudio er allerede startet med Tatu, Pauline,
og Jeanette. De andre studios starter i morgen kl. 10.
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