Tina Enghoff

Part of Valby / long-term

2012 - 2016

Part of Valby a 4 year community based outreach project in collaboration with Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center.

In short the idea and methods behind Part of Valby:
To develop and train a group mostly boys age 12-20 with different ethnic backgrounds from the area of Folehaven, a socially marginalized area outside Copenhagen, with their own experience of working with art as a catalyst for changing identities and communities and being part of the Arthalls program. Five films were made in proces of collaborations and all five videos has been shown at the yearly Art Video Festival in Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center.
 
The goal of Part of Valby was to develop a method and some clear tools based on art, culture, museology, learning and housing social work that mutually benefit the three social housing projects in the district and can at the same time serve as a matrix for future efforts elsewhere in the country. To contribute to the development of cultural democracy and citizenship of the individuals as well as institutions involved. And to develop and train a youth team with their own experience of working with art as a catalyst for changing identities and communities and being part of the Arthalls program.

Through events, talks and an equal positioning in the FOKUS video arts festivals program in the Art Center, to assign a co creation based artwork is of significant importance in an art institutional framework and concrete for the art audience in the art hall.

Projections of 5 videoinstallations in Folehaven november 2015, This time we take them back into the area and make projections of all 5 videos with the help of the community and the young people taking part of making the videos.
Together with the projections 150 posters were placed around in Folehaven.
 
See more (only in danish) on : https://www.nikolajkunsthal.dk/da/outreach/part-valby

VIDEO PIECES

• 7 x Dialog, 2015

  
  

  An Outreach Project made in collaboration with Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre and Michael Collins, Malene Sakskilde from Folehaven, a socially marginalized area outside Copenhagen. Seven small staged meetings between different people in Folehaven, with very different ethnic backgrounds. The film is about dialogue, how do we empathize with each other and recognize the different languages and traditions. Topics revolving around subjects like: Power, Mistake, Flower, Suitcase, Prime minister and Spacemen.

• Løgndetektoren / The Lie Detector

  
  

  An Outreach Project made in collaboration with Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre, Culture Valby, Michael Collins and Folehaven a socially marginalized area outside Copenhagen. The film addresses questions about prejudice we have about each other, what is the truth and what is a lie, and is made during a workshop where a group of boys at the age of 11-14 with different ethnic backgrounds borrowed cameras and got the possibility to tell their story.

• De Syv Valg / The Seven Choices

  
  

  An Outreach Project made in collaboration with Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre, Suvi Andrea Helminen, Culture Valby, Michael Collins and Folehaven a socially marginalized area outside Copenhagen. The film addresses questions about role models. The Seven Choices is inspired by a mixture of Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leths film The Five Obstructions 2003, and Jørgen Leths film The Perfect Human from 1967. Dealing with challenges and choices in life, and setting the question: What is a perfect human?