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Visual artist, educator and activist
Posted: Mar / 2014
Talk on "An urban walk through the district of Nørrebro - the presence of past struggles?" at the Social Context conference at the University of Copenhagen, September 26 2013
Jakob Jakobsen is a politically engaged visual artist, educator and activist, based in Copenhagen and London.
As part of the Social Context conference in Copenhagen in September 2013 Jakobsen guided an urban walk through the district of Nørrebro. The walk focused on the urban development of the area in light of the numerous historical struggles that characterize this traditionally working class neighborhood, struggles that are still on-going relating to the push for gentrification that haunts Nørrebro at present.
Jakobsen was part of the Copenhagen Free University from 2001 to 2007, was co-founder of the trade union Young Artworkers (UKK) in 2002, and the artist-run television station tv-tv in 2004. He was professor at the Funen Art Academy from 2006 to 2012. Recent exhibitions include Billed Politik at Overgaden, Institute of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen and This World We Must Leave at Kunsthalle Aarhus in 2010 and Trauma 1 - 11: Stories about the Copenhagen Free University and the surrounding society in the last ten years at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde in 2011. He was part of And And And /dOCUMENTA 13 with the The Antiuniversity Research Project in 2012.
Links:
copenhagenfreeuniversity.dk | ukk.dk | billedpolitik.dk
thisworldwemustleave.dk | vimeo.com/29529903 | andandand.org |
antihistory.org
Photo: Mark Knudsen/Monsun
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