Useful Art for Communities

Open Day UAC 2023

during the open day 2023 we did get to know the current artists in the art collective, their projects and what UAC art Platform is about.

Anxiety Project

This is a series that encompasses a collection of performances and exhibitions curated by Beatriz Gonzalez Rodriguez as part of her research into the exploration of ‘ugly emotions’ such as anxiety.

Postcards from Aarhus

Series of photo walks crafted by Katharina Ya. No photography skills or fancy cameras are required. Just grab your comfiest shoes and any camera or phone you have!

Sketching a public artwork

SOCIALLY ENGAGED ART PROJECT by Beatriz Gonzalez Rodriguez Sketching a Collective Public Artwork This artwork consists in a series of happening, workshops and exhibitions that will go from October 2023 until April 2024. During this period, the artist in residency Beatriz GR will engage with the community and  neighborhood of Folkehuset Ankersgade with the goal […]

Fermentorskab

Community project by Sarafina Kimø Fer-mentor-skab What is Fer.mentor.skab?  Ferment: the culinary practice of using microbes to transform ingredients into new products, often more flavourful, nutritious and with longer shelf-lives Mentor: A person who guides you. In this community, we seek to be mentors for each other, each teaching what we can offer.  Skab: Danish word […]

Allow yorself to feel

Art and mental health workshop by Beatriz Gonzalez Rodriguez Allow yourself to feel A workshop where the partecipants, led  explored their inner emotions and communicating them through creativity. Art and creativity have documented effects on mental, physical and emotional well-being.We all know the feeling of calm that comes when working on a creative project.Art is a […]

Cabaret Baubo

CO-CREATIVE PERFORMATIVE WORKSHOP BY LUSUS THEATRE Cabaret Baubo On a dark and cold depressing night, Lusus Theater found Baubo, the goddess of the Belly Laughter, according to Greek mythology.  Now they all are “the fools who follow Baubo, and who want to spread her word”.  Lusus means playfulness in Latin and it is what this group […]

Social Knitting Club

Community project by Catherine Vilain Dybro Social Knitting Club The project started in January 2023 and consisted of monthly knitting club gatherings facilitated by Cathrine. The gatherings were  a combination of casual knitting sessions and meetings centred around different themes.  You can follow the Facebook page for the future events, still happening outside of UAC! […]

Assemball

Useful Arts for Communities x Kosmologym Assemball An event, during which players explored human organizational structures by precariously binding them together for a game of bondage basketball.Jerseys and connectors turned teams into visual representations of various hierarchical and non-hierarchical organizations. Kosmologym is an art and game design collective.Our games challenge players to encounter others (human and […]

Flâneurs of X+K: An Itinerant Conjuring

NYC BASED @FLUXFACTORY ARTISTS GIL LOPEZ & KALON HEYWARD AND LOCAL PERFORMERS Flâneurs of X+K: An Itinerant Conjuring An evening stroll (re)discovering the hidden treasures and future histories of place. Bringing our personal, ecologic, industrial and other cultural knowledge to light and imaginations to share as we redefine our mental maps and place in time […]