KEY TAKE-AWAYS
- how OKK works: an element of collaboration with artists’s societies/associations. the projects they had at Økern already (Mia Habib, Lars Ramberg, Selvbyggeren, Studio Assemble).
- aim to: do more types of art, more projects that are site-specific. want people to volunteer for comissions, put money in the time spent for artists to spend time in the space, expand they way they collect art and develop new ways to archive.
- how can art contribute to the developent of the city? art work can act as a room for context. art work never cures an area in transformation.
- publicly available space isn’t the same as publicly owned.
- irritation in the Bjerke district on people making an identity in areas that already have identity.
- developers want to change the idea that Hovinbyen is a suburb, connect the values of these districts to be part of oslo sentrum. they’re doing things for the people who are going to live here: ‘but what about the people who already live here?’
- ØKERN: cross-road, a place of connection between communities. working class/middle-class
- the strategisk plan of Hovinbyen is not legally binding
- investment art budget is allocated only to public buildings, private investors don’t have to allocate a buget for art (art isn’t a ‘necessary’ enough part for most developers/investors).
- still struggling with the participatory part of art in public space
- when one is working with art in public space: permissions to set up the artwork and all its details, money to rent the public space itself, and for how long, and the process from start to finish (oppdragsgiver, bidragsytere, prosjekter/forankring, finansiering, utganspunkt, formål, osv..)