Come to this open drop-in workshop and take part in The Bank, a participatory project by artist collective SUPERFLEX.

Known for their long-term, socially engaged works, SUPERFLEX develop projects that invite communities to imagine and shape alternative systems – economic, social and environmental. At Mudam, The Bank unfolds as an evolving, collective process: a space where visitors are invited to contribute ideas for a future intervention in the museum’s surroundings.

There are many kinds of banks (financial banks, but also blood banks, seed banks, food banks and more!). Each of these keeps something of value safe. Imagine that you are designing a new bank. What do you think it should store for the future? What should the building look like?

We invite you to use your imagination to shape the bank of your dreams!

Through this activity, you will participate in creating a collective installation that will reshape Mudam’s surroundings by contributing to a future artwork by SUPERFLEX.

Biography: 

SUPERFLEX was founded in 1993 by Jakob Fenger, Bjørnstjerne Christiansen and Rasmus Rosengren Nielsen. Conceived as an expanded collective, SUPERFLEX has consistently worked with a wide variety of collaborators, from gardeners to engineers to audience members. Engaging with alternative models for the creation of social and economic organisation, works have taken the form of energy systems, beverages, sculptures, copies, hypnosis sessions, infrastructure, paintings, plant nurseries, contracts and public spaces.

Working in and outside the physical location of the exhibition space, SUPERFLEX has been engaged in major public space projects since their award-winning Superkilen opened in 2011. These projects are usually participatory, involving the input of local communities, specialists and children. Taking the idea of collaboration even further, recent works have involved soliciting the participation of other species. SUPERFLEX has been developing a new kind of urbanism that includes the perspectives of plants and animals, aiming to move society towards interspecies living. For SUPERFLEX, the best idea might come from a fish.