//// RESIDENCY
TONE HANSEN
Period of residency: november 2009
// about
Tone Hansen curator and artist based in Oslo, Norway.
// projects
_____Allemannsretten and Allmenning
What is the function of public space today? What defines it? How do we maintain it? Through reforms like New Public Management the structure of society has changed and the power has taken new forms. To understand art's changing role in the public space, we have to analyze the major structural changes and investigate how they also influence the art sphere. Tone Hansen will discuss the basic juridical terms Allemannsretten (the public right to access) and Allmenning (Common land) in Scandinavia in order to shed light on a specific and vulnerable regulation that defines use of both public and private ground. Hansen wiil use examples from the development of the Fjord City of Bjørvika in Oslo, as well as private initiatives such as the Capital Action that has created a set of aesthetic rules for the inner city. She will also visually represent the transition from a state that organizes its duties in the administrative bodies to a state that also manages its interests through state-owned enterprises.
