Art & The CIty
A storytelling voyage through the intricate relations between creativity and urban spaces, through the eyes of an artist
START
By Anna Illing
Street art characterises every city, yet its own characteristics differ from city to city. It is a worldwide phenomena that takes innumerable shapes, forms and sizes depending on where it is placed. In being so broad and so specific at the same time, street art has the quite unique feature to simultaneously bring the global to the local and the local to the global.
But then, WHAT Is STREET ART?
some ACADEMIC quotes to introduce the subject
OR
OR
TO Fully grasp street art, who better to Ask than an artist himself?
Danish artist, Mikkel has built his career decorating all over, mainly his iconic and very well-known bird with big eyes. The audios in this story are extracts from an interview with him.
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Title
Mikkel T. Jessen
Write a brief description here
WHY THE STREET?
The City
Street art develops differently in different cities; because of its temporary-bound and site-specific nature it matters where it is produced. The city and area it is placed in determines, for once, who sees the art piace, which in turn it also deeply shape the art piece's project, meaning and message.
BUT WHY?
So, To each city its own art
IN ACADEMIC TERMS
IN MIKKEL'S TERMS
HAve you ever heard of Aarhus, Denmark?
AArhus, DK
AARhus
BRIEF PRESENTATION
Mikkel Perspective
THe Bird PIP
The (ART) History
PIP THE BIRD
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Title
Why the route?
Write a brief description here
The casino
The emotions
The books
The colours
The restaurant
The trees
The old bike
The eyes
Pica Pica
Why a bird?
This iconic unique bird in aarhus is an instance of how artists shape the city they work in, through the colors they use, the characters they create, anD the emotions their art pieces manage to convey. Each detail is a deliberate choice which has consequences on the urban landscape. For Mikkel, even his signature
TO FOLLOW THE ROUTE
Nicholas Alden Riggle
An artwork is street art if, and only if, its material use of the street is internal to its meaning.The definition implies that street art is likely to be, among other things, illegal, anonymous, ephemeral, highly creative, and attractive.
Ulrich Blanché
Street Art consists of self-authorized pictures, characters, and forms created in or applied to surfaces in the urban space that intentionally seek communication with a larger circle of people. Street Art is done in a performative and of-ten site-specific, ephemeral, and participatory way.
ARtistic AARHus
Art does not hold a secondary place in Aarhus history and culture. In the past, influential landscape architects, testile designers and sculptors were inspired by and transformed the city. With this creative nature running deep through its streets, it is almost natural that going for a walk in Aarhus equals a visit to a museum. And just as in a museum, there are itineries and theme exhibition to visit. For example, The Art Route along the Water combines a peaceful experience along the harbour with impressive art pieces. Also very powerful is he 17-walls project, that brings the UN Sustainable Development Goals to life through fascinating gable art.
Konstantinos Avramidis and Myrto Tsilimpounidi
Cities are dynamic, living organisms in which space and people mutually create one another. Graffiti and street art capture these spatio-social interactions between the placing of people and the ways humans inhabit and (in)form their spaces. Graffiti and street art are simultaneously physical acts and cultural practices. As such, they are spatially and socially bound; they bring together the material and the immaterial.
AARHus
56°09′23″N 10°12′35″E
Arhus is the second largest city of Denmark, located in the Jutland peninsula. With 373,388 inhabitants and 25.714 university students in 2024 it is a vibrant, modern, and lively city. While it keeps up with time passing, Aarhus has a long history to share as weel. It is one of the oldest city in Denmark, but it is also placed high on the list of oldest city in the whole Scandinavia peninsula: it's diocese is dated 951, with archelogical findings revealing that the area was inhabited since the VII century, the very beginning of the viking era.
Konstantinos Avramidis and Myrto Tsilimpounidi
Cities are dynamic, living organisms in which space and people mutually create one another. Graffiti and street art capture these spatio-social interactions between the placing of people and the ways humans inhabit and (in)form their spaces. Graffiti and street art are simultaneously physical acts and cultural practices. As such, they are spatially and socially bound; they bring together the material and the immaterial.
Why so diverse?
There are multiple very broad reasons that explain street art's diversity in forms and visual languages; to name a few:
- character of (sub-) cultures and identities
- socio-economic conditions
- artistic skills and knowledge
- conviviality and sociability of the aesthetic form
All of these points encompass simultaneously the everyday social life and the overarching economic and political structure. The one thing they all have in common is the demand for active spectatorship and an engaged perceiver
AARHus
56°09′23″N 10°12′35″E
Arhus is the second largest city of Denmark, located in the Jutland peninsula. With 373,388 inhabitants and 25.714 university students in 2024 it is a vibrant, modern, and lively city. While it keeps up with time passing, Aarhus has a long history to share. It is one of the oldest city in Denmark, but it is also placed high on the list of oldest city in the whole Scandinavia peninsula: it's diocese is dated 951, with archelogical findings revealing that the area was inhabited since the VII century, the very beginning of the viking era.
Martin Irvine
Street art inserts itself in the material city as an argument about visuality, the social and political structure of being visible. Street art stands in the intersection of two regimes, namely, two ways of distributing visibility: the institutional regime imposed by politics, law and property rights, and the aesthetic regime of the artworld, where the boundary between art and non-art is established.
ARtistic AARHus
Art does not hold a secondary place in Aarhus history and culture. In the past, influential landscape architects, testile designers and sculptors were inspired by and transformed the city. With this creative nature running deep through its streets, it is almost natural that going for a walk in Aarhus equals a visit to a museum. And just as in a museum, there are itineries and theme exhibition to visit. For example, The Art Route along the Water combines a peaceful experience along the harbour with impressive art pieces. Also very powerful is the 17-walls project, that brings the UN Sustainable Development Goals to life through fascinating gable art.
Why so diverse?
There are multiple very broad reasons that explain street art's diversity in forms and visual languages; to name a few:
- character of (sub-) cultures and identities
- socio-economic conditions
- artistic skills and knowledge
- conviviality and sociability of the aesthetic form
All of these points encompass simultaneously the everyday social life and the overarching economic and political structure. The one thing they all have in common is the demand for active spectatorship and an engaged perceiver .
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Art & The CIty
A storytelling voyage through the intricate relations between creativity and urban spaces, through the eyes of an artist
START
By Anna Illing
Street art characterises every city, yet its own characteristics differ from city to city. It is a worldwide phenomena that takes innumerable shapes, forms and sizes depending on where it is placed. In being so broad and so specific at the same time, street art has the quite unique feature to simultaneously bring the global to the local and the local to the global.
But then, WHAT Is STREET ART?
some ACADEMIC quotes to introduce the subject
OR
OR
TO Fully grasp street art, who better to Ask than an artist himself?
Danish artist, Mikkel has built his career decorating all over, mainly his iconic and very well-known bird with big eyes. The audios in this story are extracts from an interview with him.
Use this side of the card to provide more information about a topic. Focus on one concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
Title
Mikkel T. Jessen
Write a brief description here
WHY THE STREET?
The City
Street art develops differently in different cities; because of its temporary-bound and site-specific nature it matters where it is produced. The city and area it is placed in determines, for once, who sees the art piace, which in turn it also deeply shape the art piece's project, meaning and message.
BUT WHY?
So, To each city its own art
IN ACADEMIC TERMS
IN MIKKEL'S TERMS
HAve you ever heard of Aarhus, Denmark?
AArhus, DK
AARhus
BRIEF PRESENTATION
Mikkel Perspective
THe Bird PIP
The (ART) History
PIP THE BIRD
Use this side of the card to provide more information about a topic. Focus on one concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
Use this side of the card to provide more information about a topic. Focus on one concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
Use this side of the card to provide more information about a topic. Focus on one concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
Use this side of the card to provide more information about a topic. Focus on one concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
Use this side of the card to provide more information about a topic. Focus on one concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
Use this side of the card to provide more information about a topic. Focus on one concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
Use this side of the card to provide more information about a topic. Focus on one concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
Use this side of the card to provide more information about a topic. Focus on one concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
Use this side of the card to provide more information about a topic. Focus on one concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
Use this side of the card to provide more information about a topic. Focus on one concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
Use this side of the card to provide more information about a topic. Focus on one concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
Use this side of the card to provide more information about a topic. Focus on one concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
Title
Why the route?
Write a brief description here
The casino
The emotions
The books
The colours
The restaurant
The trees
The old bike
The eyes
Pica Pica
Why a bird?
This iconic unique bird in aarhus is an instance of how artists shape the city they work in, through the colors they use, the characters they create, anD the emotions their art pieces manage to convey. Each detail is a deliberate choice which has consequences on the urban landscape. For Mikkel, even his signature
TO FOLLOW THE ROUTE
Nicholas Alden Riggle
An artwork is street art if, and only if, its material use of the street is internal to its meaning.The definition implies that street art is likely to be, among other things, illegal, anonymous, ephemeral, highly creative, and attractive.
Ulrich Blanché
Street Art consists of self-authorized pictures, characters, and forms created in or applied to surfaces in the urban space that intentionally seek communication with a larger circle of people. Street Art is done in a performative and of-ten site-specific, ephemeral, and participatory way.
ARtistic AARHus
Art does not hold a secondary place in Aarhus history and culture. In the past, influential landscape architects, testile designers and sculptors were inspired by and transformed the city. With this creative nature running deep through its streets, it is almost natural that going for a walk in Aarhus equals a visit to a museum. And just as in a museum, there are itineries and theme exhibition to visit. For example, The Art Route along the Water combines a peaceful experience along the harbour with impressive art pieces. Also very powerful is he 17-walls project, that brings the UN Sustainable Development Goals to life through fascinating gable art.
Konstantinos Avramidis and Myrto Tsilimpounidi
Cities are dynamic, living organisms in which space and people mutually create one another. Graffiti and street art capture these spatio-social interactions between the placing of people and the ways humans inhabit and (in)form their spaces. Graffiti and street art are simultaneously physical acts and cultural practices. As such, they are spatially and socially bound; they bring together the material and the immaterial.
AARHus
56°09′23″N 10°12′35″E
Arhus is the second largest city of Denmark, located in the Jutland peninsula. With 373,388 inhabitants and 25.714 university students in 2024 it is a vibrant, modern, and lively city. While it keeps up with time passing, Aarhus has a long history to share as weel. It is one of the oldest city in Denmark, but it is also placed high on the list of oldest city in the whole Scandinavia peninsula: it's diocese is dated 951, with archelogical findings revealing that the area was inhabited since the VII century, the very beginning of the viking era.
Konstantinos Avramidis and Myrto Tsilimpounidi
Cities are dynamic, living organisms in which space and people mutually create one another. Graffiti and street art capture these spatio-social interactions between the placing of people and the ways humans inhabit and (in)form their spaces. Graffiti and street art are simultaneously physical acts and cultural practices. As such, they are spatially and socially bound; they bring together the material and the immaterial.
Why so diverse?
There are multiple very broad reasons that explain street art's diversity in forms and visual languages; to name a few:
- character of (sub-) cultures and identities
- socio-economic conditions
- artistic skills and knowledge
- conviviality and sociability of the aesthetic form
All of these points encompass simultaneously the everyday social life and the overarching economic and political structure. The one thing they all have in common is the demand for active spectatorship and an engaged perceiverAARHus
56°09′23″N 10°12′35″E
Arhus is the second largest city of Denmark, located in the Jutland peninsula. With 373,388 inhabitants and 25.714 university students in 2024 it is a vibrant, modern, and lively city. While it keeps up with time passing, Aarhus has a long history to share. It is one of the oldest city in Denmark, but it is also placed high on the list of oldest city in the whole Scandinavia peninsula: it's diocese is dated 951, with archelogical findings revealing that the area was inhabited since the VII century, the very beginning of the viking era.
Martin Irvine
Street art inserts itself in the material city as an argument about visuality, the social and political structure of being visible. Street art stands in the intersection of two regimes, namely, two ways of distributing visibility: the institutional regime imposed by politics, law and property rights, and the aesthetic regime of the artworld, where the boundary between art and non-art is established.
ARtistic AARHus
Art does not hold a secondary place in Aarhus history and culture. In the past, influential landscape architects, testile designers and sculptors were inspired by and transformed the city. With this creative nature running deep through its streets, it is almost natural that going for a walk in Aarhus equals a visit to a museum. And just as in a museum, there are itineries and theme exhibition to visit. For example, The Art Route along the Water combines a peaceful experience along the harbour with impressive art pieces. Also very powerful is the 17-walls project, that brings the UN Sustainable Development Goals to life through fascinating gable art.
Why so diverse?
There are multiple very broad reasons that explain street art's diversity in forms and visual languages; to name a few:
- character of (sub-) cultures and identities
- socio-economic conditions
- artistic skills and knowledge
- conviviality and sociability of the aesthetic form
All of these points encompass simultaneously the everyday social life and the overarching economic and political structure. The one thing they all have in common is the demand for active spectatorship and an engaged perceiver .