DaNY Arts
DaNY Arts is a cooperative cultural initiative between artists and art institutions in Denmark and in New York. The aim of the project is to create opportunities for artists and art institutions in Denmark and in New York to establish new connections, explore the process of artistic collaboration, and mutually benefit from each other’s background and experience. DaNY Arts will take place from 2006 through 2008.
The Danish Arts Council has allocated DKK 10 mio. for DaNY Arts, and the project is financially supported with DKK 2 mio. from The Danish Arts Agency.
The Danish Arts Council and the Danish Consulate General in New York administer DaNY Arts with the New York Foundation for the Arts as advisory partner.
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The following Danish visual artist are participating in the project:
Nanna Debois Buhl
In relation to the project "Tribunale" Nanna Debois Buhl has been invited to create the film ”Exhibited each afternoon during September”, in which she is trying to stage an interaction between the medias of motion picture and cabaret.
www.nannadeboisbuhl.net
Colonel (Thierry Geoffrey)
In February and March 2007 Colonel presented his project "Emergency Room" at P.S.1. "Emergency Room" was created with the fundamental desire to know artists’ opinions about the world today. The ER encourages experimentation, and fosters it with the conditions of production it entails. The ER environment is fast-paced and leaves very little time for artistic production. Every day an artist from a pool of 50-60 American and international artists will enter ER to showcase their artistic responses to the headlines of the previous 24 hours.
www.colonel.dk / www.ps1.org
Demokratisk Innovation
The project "Making Room for Redundancy" is grounded in the artistic production of the periphery, not in a geographical sense, but evolving from the term "redundancy". The objective is to make room for this artistic production in a differently concipated space.
www.advancedarchitecture.org / www.demokratisk-innovation.dk
Line Felding and Kristine Siegel
"Tribunale" is a project played out as a large cabaret, consisting of an exhibition, and of a number of performances and work-shops. The cabaret has its starting point in political awareness and entertainment and will be a platform for critical voices addressing contemporary issues. Participating artists are, among others, Leonardo Annecca, Fia Bäckström, Jakob Boeskov, Nanna Debois Buhl, Jacob Dyrenforth, Gang Gang Dance, HuskMitNavn, Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis, Skammens Vogn and Cindy Smith.
Maria Finn & Yvette Brackman
"Technically Sweet" is the title for an exhibition project on Participant Inc. and The Anthology Film Archives – and it is also the title of an unrealized film from 1976 by Michelangelo Antonioni. The artists participating in the project are: Pia Rønicke, Elsebeth Jørgensen, Lars Mathisen, Ulrik Heltoft, Frans Jacobi, Johannes Christoffersen, Yvette Brackman, Maria Finn, Michel Auder, Mark Orange, Leah Gilliam, Laura Parnes and John Brattin.
Publik, Nis Rømer
The project "Public Address" is the establishment of a transatlantic editorial board consisting of artists and theorticians from Denmark and New York. The result of this cooperation will be two newspaper publications that are to be distributed in both places.
www.publik.dk
Karoline H. Larsen
The artists participating in this project wish to intervene in the urban spaces of New York and Copenhagen through various performances and installations, for instance by involving passers-by in the creation of sculptures in the public sphere.
www.creativeactions.com
Lars Mathisen
"Stripped Bare" is the title of a large video- and sound installation that is created in cooperation between the danish and the american art scene. The thematic focal point of the work is car culture.
Parfyme Deluxe
"Deluxe / Flux Factory" is the title of a creative cooperation between the artist group Parfyme, the artist Douglas Paulson and the exhibition space Flux Factory. Parfyme Deluxe and Paulson are working to intervene in the local surroundings in New York by transforming the exhibition space back into it's original function, i.e. a factory.
www.fluxfactory.org / www.parfyme.dk / www.douglaspaulson.com
Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen
The project "Home Work" will juxtapose the concepts of politics, education, process and product. "Home Work" will be analyzing the political within contemporary art over the last four years and set up a structural model for 2007, that make up the framework that the involved artists will be working from.
www.ps122gallery.org
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
In connection with an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, a discussion and a cooperation will be established between Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen and Marina Abramovic within the field of performance art.
www.brooklynmuseum.org
Jasper Sebastian Stürup
In the project "That's When the Rabbit Taught the Eagle a Lesson With a Smith & Wesson" the six artists D-L Alvarez, Chris Caccamise, Mike Paré, Barry McGee, Kristofer Hultenberg and Jasper Sebastian Stürup are each invited to create a new artist book. The resulting books will be exhibited at Participant INC in New York and in Gallery Susanne Ottesen in Copenhagen.
www.participantinc.org
Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen
In the project "Grounded - Was Man Meant to Fly" a cooperation is established between a group of artists (Martin Stigsgaard, Rahul Saggar, Eva Merz, Yusef Merhi, Levent Bøilerhauge Engin, Ada Bligaard Søby, Trevor Paglen, Forrest Myers, Anton Perich and Matthew Kohn) and the exhibition space White Box. Six months prior to the actual exhibition a creative processs will be initiated by creating a think tank between the artists and the gallery curators.
www.whiteboxny.org
