Christania

Klaus Thymann’s project is a study in multiplicity and tolerance, the idea that cities can exist within cities. Using photography as the medium to document the Danish freetown Christiania he focuses is on the anarchistic architecture to show that a city can have a second layer, even a relatively small city such as Copenhagen.

The project was shot in a pure form, shot on film and not manipulated digitally. The goal was to store a moment in time, 2011, and let the juxtapositions of the surroundings and the architecture create the complexity in story. The normalization of Christiania could mean that the city with in the city will be redeveloped or absorbed into the other city encompassing it.

The attention on anarchistic architecture shows how a city has evolved when no city-planning was conducted. The exact GPS-location for each building was noted and used to create a new-media journey where the images can be viewed in relation to the surrounding area on digital map looking at the work in a sociological context.

Moving image digital 1:08 min.
C-types 38,1x38,1 cm editions of 3

The project was supported by Danish Arts Council.