Creative Actions work with CITIZENS' PERCEPTION & CONCEPTION
of
city space and fellow citizens.
"Perception is selective, for all
aspects of stimulus is not given equal weight. This selection is
partially achieved by physical
orientation, as in the case of eye movements." (Gleitman, Psychology
1995)
Creative Actions change public space visually and spatial through
INVOLVING METHODS and
thereby change
citizens'
perceptions directly.
"The act of looking is purposeful. People don't scan
the world in the wishful hope that their fovea will by chance
hit on some interesting bit of visual news. They pick up some information
from what they've vaguely seen in the periphery and from their
general notions of what the scene is all about. They then move
their eyes to check up on what they've seen and to refine their
visual knowledge further" (Yarbus,
1967; Rayner, 1978; Stark and Ellis, 1981)
When passers-by ask what's
going on? They get the dual answer: It's creative actions. What do you believe
you are looking at?
Space between reality and dream is opened. Citizens'
conception of
the city is challenged.
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Creative Actions has motivated creative actions among citizens
since 2005,
making INVOLVING AESTHETIC
STRUCTURES and INVOLVING
ACTIONS
for passers-by to join, use, function,
and react on in
public city
space.
All
in all to re-structure and refresh citizens’ PERSPECTIVE
ON FELLOW CITIZENS
AND CITY SPACE. Thereby
developing NEW
KINDS OF MEETINGS AND MOVEMENTS IN PUBLIC CITY CULTURE.
Creative Actions provide citizens concrete opportunities
to release creative resources collectively and individually as strong counterpart
and as healing process to these days of anxiety, aggression, isolation, alienation
and high
speed stress in public
city
space. JOY & PLEASURE
is on-going web-site being up-dated with web-documentaries,
still photographs and information on each city
involvement.
Creative Actions claim to be innovative thinking using aesthetically involving
structures combined with traditional installation and performer methods in public
city space. Further more expanding the notion of video arts/web-documentaries.
Creative Actions
is
organized
by
Danish visual artist, Karoline H. Larsen.
"The problem is not the trauma itself, the problem
is not being able to feel pleasure"
Citizens need concrete aesthetic opportunities
provided, where it is possible collectively to regenerate atmosphere
of public
city space in a positive creative speed.
Public city space in the western world is
primarily used for efficient ego-actions with a clear purpose such
as consumption, transports, sports, meetings,
deals, shopping
and socializing, and often in a well-known neighborhood.
Parallel to this major
public behavior-pattern is increasing traumatic tension in
public city space. It is inevitable
to observe
everyday
in most
bigger
global
cities. Stronger boundaries, limits and higher penalties
are growing issues.
The
project choose not to analyze the reasons for public space being
used in this way and instead move on to creative actions.
"Es ist nicht genug, zu wissen, man muss auch anwenden;
es ist nicht genug, zu wollen, man muss auch tun." J.W.Goethe
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