Organization: Personal Practice
Role: Artist
Year: 2023–Present
This is an independent project inspired by my time as a researcher in residence in Freetown Christiania in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Freetown Christiania’s experiment with anarchy began in the 70s and continues today. The squatters who initially inhabited the 19-acre site in the Christianshavn neighborhood of Copenhagen were young, queer, radical, anti-hierarchical and anti-capitalist. They were also willing to fight to protect their communalism.
Using the rainbow as a guide, they self-segmented into armies, with each color of the rainbow representing a different skill. The orange army—those who were doing orange work—were, among other trades, poster-makers. They were tasked with telling the story of the commune to the masses, communicating their collective ideals to the rest of the world.
This experiment takes inspiration from the work that the orange army was doing during the early years of the establishment of Freetown Christiania.
Using the tools of poster-making—of communicating ideology in a visual way—this work imagines alternate governmental structures, prefigures practices that do not rely on ammassing capital in order for group survival and visualizes ways that we (all humans) can live in a more harmonious and communal way.
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