After a workshop Nis Rømer and Gillion Grantsaan improves the concept for writing and organizing articles on Wikipedia as art in public and private spaces.
Nis Rømer & Gillion Grantsaan gave a workshop at KUA, Copenhagen university Amager on Open Source and collaborative historywriting. The discussion from the participating art history student was on power structures. Who are administrators, why was this article on the garden in Peder Lykke Centeret suggested deleted or moved. Why do we do this, do we get anything out of it?
After discussing the outcome of our work, we realized it gave a lot of opportunities we didn’t expect a year ago. An article on public art at in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, had been broken up into what is notable on an online free encyklopedia. Some of that left out was more about publict art. So the local art in public (article written in danish) should make sense to art in public in general (article written in english). It means we can start working on a detail, which might be considered notable.
Also we decided to write a bit more about Kai Nielsens Blågårdsplads, and some playgrounds Gillion showed us at Nørrebro. Find available media and get legal permission to publish it under the local license at Wikimedia. Later on we will work on how it is part of public and private spaces. I imagine it is specially through workshops and guided tours we can develop the project from this point. We dont use private and public spaces as functions, but rather as meeting places where we meet other interests, where we don’t know what will happen.
There was one thing we didnt clear out. The workshop was aimed at art historians, mediators in danish. It could be a priority to work with an aim towards the institutional. However art can also be about anything else, and appear in public space. Do we only aim for renegotiations of some consensus within the art sphere? I am afraid it’s not precise to identify the project in opposition to everything outside the imagined white room. The opportunity we got to think of a difference to the idea of art in public came from a wikipedian admin. Im not sure if we ought to deal with mediated reality as either consensus or agonistic.
