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Crowd art is the name given to when many people make art in a collective . Artists who use swarm art transfer their creative enthusiasm to many people, the swarm artists, who want to create works of art together with them.

definition

The creativity of the most varied of people is bundled, coordinated and thus united into a bigger whole. The overall result then shows handwriting, but with many different individual signatures. In this sense, swarm art can also be interpreted as a specific expression of swarm intelligence .

origin

Known worldwide under the term crowd art, the term swarm art is attributed to the German artist and blogger Olaf Neumann, who in 2010 called on his blog to send him portrait photos, based on which he made a drawing every day and posted it on his blog. Through this inspiration of many people, in the end, the image of a huge swarm was created through the illustration of the individual.

Swarm art in Germany

Swarm art is a socially interactive art movement that has to be initiated and guided, but then continues independently. Experience shows that this creates intensive contacts among the swarm artists. Swarm art is a low-threshold offer. Everybody can participate. Even the smallest contributions add up to a whole and make everyone involved, as part of a group, a successful swarm artist. Swarm art promotes reflection and communication about art to a very high degree. Swarm art projects deal with social issues and use their own language for this, almost "with heart and soul". In this way, enthusiastic artists find access to difficult socially critical issues. Anyone who becomes a swarm artist becomes an art mediator himself a little later when other visitors ask. With which the question “is this art” suddenly takes on a new, very personal dimension. This complex and communicative process is part of the total work of art and attracts swarm artists of all ages (including the group of young people). Temporary, multi-layered and communicative works of art with a very special charm are created.

A representative of swarm art in Germany is the artist Kerstin Schulz (Atelier Dreieck) from Gehrden near Hanover . Kerstin Schulz took the path of swarm art for the first time with the art project “St. Michaelis in the sale ”(Braunschweig, 2011), when she and 5 to 20 swarm artists put special price labels on a church. In 2012, Kerstin Schulz initiated the art campaign “ Strich-Code ” in Hanover , in which millions of special price labels were stuck together by a huge swarm of people in Hanover's old town from the Historical Museum to the red light district. In 2013 the project was awarded the “Pro Visio” prize of the Hannover Cultural Region Foundation . In 2014 it was nominated by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media for the BKM Prize for Cultural Education , funded by the Genshagen Foundation near Berlin.

Kerstin Schulz advocates the thesis that art and design are basic human needs. She is fascinated by making art together with masses of people and thus creating something big in a swarm, something that she could never do as an individual artist.

Swarm art in public spaces can also be found in so-called guerilla knitting , in which, for example, street lamps, bridges and monuments are covered by the activists with individually made crochet work. Another example of swarm art in urban spaces is the pasting of Postie pictures in high-rise windows or so-called guerilla gardening . Here public places such as traffic islands, green strips and barren backyards are planted with colorful flowers or provided with flower seeds by the swarming artists in order to make the cities more colorful again.

Artist in swarm art

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literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Susanne Lindau, Petra Lindrum, Kerstin Schulz : Bar code ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ Manuela Naveau : Crowd & Art
  3. ↑ Olaf Neumann: Schwarmkunst ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kunstblog.blog.de
  4. ↑ Kerstin Schulz , Susanne Lindau, Petra Lindrum: Temple of Art ... (see literature)
  5. ↑ NN : Swarm art campaign “Bar Code”: 40 swarm artists affix 600,000 labels to the tram ( memento of the original from October 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ÜSTRA press release of August 27, 2012, accessed on February 17, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uestra.de
  6. ↑ Kulturregion Hannover : Press release from March 6, 2013 on the awarding of the Pro Visio Prize 2013 ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (pdf; 77 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stiftung-kulturregion.de
  7. ↑ Press and Information Service of the Federal Government: Press Release 71 of March 10, 2014
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