In Quest of the Perfect Location
Text and b/w documentation
Ørestad, Amager Strand
12 fotos
Tivoli
15 fotos
Christiania
16 fotos
The project In Quest of the Perfect Location was funded by the
Danish International Visual Art Exchange Program DIVA.
The Christiania Researcher in Residence Program CRIR made our research in the free town possible.
Thanks to all who have supported our quest.
The printed publication In Quest of the Perfect Location is available
at Space Poetry.
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In Quest of the Perfect Location
The Danes are considered the happiest people in the world, and Copenhagen ranks among the metropolises with the highest quality of life. Nevertheless, the city, which in recent years has been spruced up into a comprehensively designed boomtown, seems conformist and a bit boring. Or it would if not for two reserves that have remained unassimilated for decades, a thorn in the side of those who would normalize things: Tivoli and Christiania, the traditional amusement park and the free town of dropouts. They are states of exception per se. Places outside of all places, as Foucault would call them: heterotopias. They celebrate extreme states and ecstasy and still compete for the status of the most popular tourist attraction in Copenhagen.
We went out in search of the perfect location. With one foot in the establishment and the other in the loser’s paradise, we are recording fading diversity and the gentrification of industrial wastelands and working-class neighborhoods. How are atmospheres created? What moods do they produce and why does one feel excluded or at home? The key motifs include the flaunting of lifestyles, antagonisms of work and idleness, order and disarray and their evaluation by society. The followig conveys that Tivoli and Christiania are alternative worlds that offer room inside to that which is lacking outside.