“Dancing within the Streets (On Energy)” focuses on non permanent artwork varieties—performances, happenings, conditions, and manifestations. The exhibition traces creative experiments that emerge in a single a part of the world and unfold elsewhere: from radical interventions in Nineteen Sixties South America to anti-authoritarian, self-organized tasks in Nineteen Eighties New York—and additional to new creative platforms in West Africa within the 2010s. It’s not a single, unified narrative however a mess of tales that collectively kind a dynamic account of artwork’s potential in public house.
In brief, the exhibition is about artwork and life and the way the 2 intertwine.
FROM DANCING IN THE STREETS OF SAN FRANSISCO TO PERFORMANCES IN MAPS’ FOYER
“The Story of Public Artwork” is curated as a dynamic, evolving kind that modifications character all through the exhibition interval. The exhibition begins with dance in city areas—from Anna Halprin’s Metropolis Dance in San Francisco to Hélio Oiticica’s iconic capes, Parangolé, worn in spontaneous processions by means of the streets of Rio de Janeiro. As a part of the exhibition, artist and choreographer Maria Hassabi will rework the museum’s lobby right into a 20-meter-long mirror set up. The art work creates a brand new assembly house the place guests are invited to carry out. Maria Hassabi, together with dancer Elena Antoniou, will carry out on the opening on Saturday, March 22. Afterwards, the choreography will likely be carried out by rotating skilled dancers each different Saturday afternoon within the set up at MAPS’ lobby.
STREETS AND CARS AS A RECURRING MOTIF
The exhibition borrows its title from the Motown hit Dancing within the Avenue, which emerged in Nineteen Sixties Detroit—the middle of the auto business and an epicenter of the civil rights motion. The music turned an anthem of peaceable resistance, an invite to fill the streets with life and motion. That very same power and perspective might be discovered within the artists featured in MAPS’ exhibition. Streets and vehicles kind a recurring motif all through the exhibition, linking the person to a broader social context: from Allan Kaprow’s happenings Calling and Wolf Vostell’s concrete automotive sculptures Concrete Visitors to Lawrence Lek’s AI work NOX, about self-driving vehicles in existential imbalance, and Göksu Kunak’s VENUS, a Mercedes-performance in regards to the perpetual motion of immigrant tradition. In reference to the exhibition, MAPS has invited New Style Public Artwork pioneer Suzanne Lacy to create a brand new automotive set up. The piece builds on her longstanding engagement with the function of artwork in social actions, together with her undertaking Auto on the Fringe of Time, which focuses on violence towards girls.
PROGRAM IN PUBLIC SPACES
Dancing within the Streets (On Energy) extends into public areas with an inventive takeover of iconic screens in Copenhagen till April 19,2025:
On the dual screens at Copenhagen Metropolis Corridor Sq., American artist Jenny Holzer will current completely different animations.
On the screens above Nørreport Station in central Copenhagen, Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar will disrupt the business circulation with an inventive intervention.
Each interventions reference iconic public artwork occasions: Jenny Holzer’s Message to the Public, displayed within the Nineteen Eighties on Occasions Sq., the place her phrase Abuse of Energy Comes as No Shock was seen by thousands and thousands. And Alfredo Jaar’sTonight No Poetry Will Serve, commissioned by CIRCA, proven on London’s Piccadilly Lights in 2023 as a poetic commentary on the conflict in Gaza and the powerlessness of phrases in a violent period.
On Sunday, March 23, 2025, artist Göksu Kunak’s VENUS Vol 2 might be skilled at Copenhagen Metropolis Corridor Sq.—a piece initially commissioned by Neue Nationwide Galerie in Berlin, now reimagined for Copenhagen’s city house. All through the exhibition interval, Dancing within the Streets (On Energy) will proceed to current new works and revive historic masterpieces with reenactments of legendary public performances. In reference to the exhibition, the museum will broaden with an out of doors LED display screen on MAPS’ facade, showcasing video works by, amongst others, Guerilla Women, Yoko Ono, Erik van Lieshout, and Pussy Riot.
at MAPS – Museum of Artwork in Public Areas
till April 19, 2025
