Urban Pilgrimages are poetic urban extracts. They dig their way into the grain of cities to find out what places and its people are really about. ->read more

Sun Feb24th 08, 15:00-18:30 2nd Urban Pilgrimage Copenhagen / guided tour with some text, performance, music, food, schnaps etc. start: Assistens Kirkegården (cemetery) entrance on Nørrebrogade, Copenhagen N. Bring bikes and good nerves. ->more


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If you could be the good fairy and had a wish free for Copenhagen or Christiania – what would you wish?
->survey ->archive ->blog


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Tales about Darkness



Men and Women. Kings.


-> interview on Kopenhagen.dk


Researching Copenhagen



Blog Urban Pilgrims


-> Visuals / display of the urban pilgrims survey Permanent. Tourist Information, Vesterbrogade 4A, Copenhagen V (+ on flickr)



Researching Christiania


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Urban Pilgrims Copenhagen & Christiania
Website, Survey, Performances 2007/2008

Sunday, Feb 24th 08, 15:00-18:30

2nd Urban Pilgrimage Copenhagen
guided biketour with performance, text, music, food, schnaps etc.

start: Assistens Kirkegården (cemetery) entrance on middle of Nørrebrogade, Copenhagen N.
end: with food and drinks by *Suppe Salonen*
Bring: bikes and long underwear. And Suppe Salonen asks everybody to bring a bowl and a spoon.

German-canadian artist Angela Dorrer has been living in Copenhagen for the last months trying to figure out what the capital of the Danes and the people who live there are all about. The conclusion is being presented to those with the nerves to show up for a very extraordinary bicycle ride through the city – because of big request: the 2nd pilgrimage for Copenhagen!

The Urban Pilgrimage in Copenhagen will be by bike. Starting off on Nørrebro the route will lead people to events at Jagtvej 69 and later on at Dronning Louises bro – the bridge separating the posh inner city from unruly Nørrebro. The route from there on will be decided by the votes of the people – left or right; but no matter what everybody will end up at the queen’s castle Amalienborg where a Danish paradox will be tried to be solved. In Christiania you will find about about the fortune of Copenhagen and Christiania. These are just some of the experiences to be expected on the pilgrimage which will find its conclusion at a very special place discovered by artist Angela Dorrer. But entrance is only allowed for those who can keep the secret to themselves.


If you could be the good fairy and had a wish free for Copenhagen or Christiania what would you wish? If Copenhagen or Christiania was a person, what kind of person would it be? Give us your opinion on urbanpilgrims.org and read the archives.

Urban Pilgrimages are poetic urban extracts. They dig their way into the grain of cities to find out what places and its people are really about. Participants get involved in individually tailored, dramatized performances about their city, based on an online survey, a blog and continuously growing internet archives.

Urban Pilgrimages can take on various forms, such as behavioral instructions or procession-like journeys with collective movement, gesture, sound, props, food, music and personal encounters. The personalities and communities within the given place with their stories and emotions become the artistic material. Individual experience becomes a public field, which generates a new cartography of a place - the essential toolkit for the 21st century voyager.


past events:

Sun Jan27th 08, 15:00-18:00
1st Urban Pilgrimage Copenhagen
Wed Jan30th 08, 13:00
->documentation

Wed Jan30th 08, 13:00
Singing a Lovesong to the ducks and why the entrance to the Underworld is in Vienna
Talk, Billedkunstskolernes Grunduddannelse, Peder Skramsgade 2B, 3. sal, Copenhagen K.

Thu Jan31st 08, 19:00
Talk, Forget your Name. Become a Slave of the Pushers / talk about Urban Pilgrims
Rum46, Studsgade 46, st. tv., 8000 Århus

Thu Dec14th 07, 18:30
Men and Women. Kings / performance and presentation
Factory for Art & Design, Sundholmsvej 46, Copenhagen S
->documentation

Thu Dec20th 07, 19:30
Tales about Darkness. Jagtvej 69 / performance on one of the darkest days of the year. Bring dark stories or poems [up to 10 min].
Jagtvej/ Ground69, old site of Ungdomshuset, Copenhagen N. (demonstration start 17:00 Blågårds Plads)
->documentation

Mon Dec24th 07, during celebration
Christmas 2007. Wishes for Christiania / performance. Donate your wish on urbanpilgrims.org.
Den Grå Hal / Grey Hall, Christiania, Copenhagen S
->documentation

Visuals / display of the urban pilgrims survey
Permanent. Tourist Information, Vesterbrogade 4A, Copenhagen V
->documentation

Urban Pilgrims at iSpot Copenhagen
link ->Kunst/Architecture
->documentation

The project developed through different public tours during the last years: Urban Pilgrims Vienna (2007), Pilgrimage for Calgary (2006), Pilgrimage for Edmonton (2005) and Pilgrimage for Munich (2004). Every city originates a complete new series of site-specific behavioral instructions, new rituals for the city. For example in Calgary the pilgrims performed a baroque dance, kissed pedestrians and sang a love song to the ducks. In Edmonton everybody turned their clothes inside out, called a suicide helpline and did the purple city performance. In Vienna participants ran on time on Heldenplatz, did a sugar burning at Michaelerplatz and visited a brothel and the entrance to the underworld.


Press photos:

logo Urban Pilgrims / head (from main page urbanpilgrims.org), ->high resolution ->low resolution
Urban Pilgrims on the road, foto: rebeccaland.com -> high resolution ->low resolution

Concept, realisation, design, update: Angela Dorrer (D)
Programming, technical support: Patrick Gruban (D)
Curator: Christian Skovbjerg Jensen (DK)
Assisting Curator: Martin Johansen (DK)
Supported by: CRIR Christiania Researcher in Residence, CPH AIR, publik / action gallery, The Danish Arts Council, Københavns Billedkunstudvalg, Wonderful Copenhagen / ispot
info: www.urbanpilgrims.org , info(ad)urbanpilgrims.org +45 26165872


-> Interview about Urban Pilgrims Copenhagen with Angela Dorrer on Kopenhagen.dk

-> More about urban pilgrims