Projects tagged
Installation
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Gota D’Agua
Read more: Gota D’AguaA site-specific art intervention intended as a call to action in response to Brazil’s water crisis. Strategically planned to coincide with UN World Water Day, Gota D’Agua gathered onlookers around an abandoned Olympic size swimming pool at the foot of…
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Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate
Read more: Speaking Volumes: Transforming HateThe Creativity Movement (formerly known as the World Church of the Creater) is a self proclaimed white supremacist organization with factions across the United States. In 2004, a high ranking leader of the Montana based faction defected from the group,…
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Walkthrough
Read more: WalkthroughMoMA presents the first comprehensive American survey of the leading contemporary artist Walid Raad (b. 1967, Lebanon), featuring his work in photography, video, sculpture, and performance from the last 25 years. Dedicated to exploring the veracity of photographic and video…
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Operation Christmas – Demobilizing FARC Guerrilla members
Read more: Operation Christmas – Demobilizing FARC Guerrilla membersColombian ad agency Lowe SSP3 is starting a Christmas-themed campaign to entice guerrilla fighters out of the jungle to turn themselves in. The agency may have created an advertising-to-guerrillas award category after winning a gold Cannes Lion in the outdoor…
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100 ‘Radioactive Figures’ Haunt Hamburg Landscape
Read more: 100 ‘Radioactive Figures’ Haunt Hamburg LandscapeART COLLECTIVE LUZINTERRUPTUS has created an installation made up of 100 glowing “radioactive” figures for the Dockville Festival in Hamburg. The human-size figures appear to be wearing special white protective clothing and marching, heads down, across the landscape. The eerie…
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Europe’s First Underwater Museum Offers A Stark Reminder of the Refugee Crisis
Read more: Europe’s First Underwater Museum Offers A Stark Reminder of the Refugee CrisisStrap into your scuba gear — this museum is worth it. Installation began on Museo Atlantico — the latest project of underwater sculptor James deCaires Taylor — this week, 14 meters underwater in Lanzarote, one of the Spain’s Canary Islands…
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Rainwater art activism
Read more: Rainwater art activismTo raise awareness among the general public about the global clean water crisis, the artist Belo created an image composed of 66,000 cups of colored rainwater simulating levels of impurities found in water all over the planet. This major work…
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Border Crosser
Read more: Border CrosserZERO1 is thrilled to commission artist Chico MacMurtrie/Amorphic Robot Works(ARW) Border Crosser during the week leading up to SB50. Rising 40 feet from the ground and arching across an imaginary border before forming a bridge and touching down on the…
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Migrant crisis: Charities make massive peace sign out of life jackets on Lesbos
Read more: Migrant crisis: Charities make massive peace sign out of life jackets on LesbosCharities working on the Greek island of Lesbos have made a massive peace sign out of discarded life jackets to honour refugees who’ve died trying to cross the Mediterranean. More than 100 volunteers used 3,000 vests to form the symbol…
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You’d Better Watch Your Step In Madrid
Read more: You’d Better Watch Your Step In MadridLuzinterruptus turns their art activism towards the overabundance of dog doo littering the city’s streets. The studio inflated 500 poop-scoopin’ plastic bags and placed a lightbulb inside each one. Installation lasted nine hours. External sources: https://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/madrids-dog-poop-problem-inspires-led-ar…