Projects tagged
Installation
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Inside Out Project
Read more: Inside Out ProjectJR called for the creation of a global art project – the Inside Out Project – inspired by his large‐format street “pastings.” The concept of the project is to give everyone the opportunity to share their portrait and a statement…
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Independence Square Sculpture: “New Ukraine”
Read more: Independence Square Sculpture: “New Ukraine”French street artist Roti installed a 4-ton marble sculpture in Independence Square in Kiev Ukraine, as an expression of solidarity with government resistors and protestors. The sculpture depicts a woman’s body emerging from water. From Rojo & Harrington (Huffington post):…
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Potatoe Walkout
Read more: Potatoe Walkout“Potatoe Walkout” is a series of art installations located outside public food venues, featuring potatoes and cucumbers outfitted in sunglasses, picket signs, umbrellas, and other objects (depending on the depicted scene, which varies). Some scenes represent protest, others represent army…
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Cancer Baby’s Kimo Kawa House
Read more: Cancer Baby’s Kimo Kawa HouseLu Yang attempts to bring the negative notion of Cancer cell into a “Kimo Kawa” object of love and/or pain and hopes to open a dialogue that brings awareness to the acceptance and tolerance of living with cancer cells. Using…
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Coca Cola is Out of Order – Grassroots Campaign For Container Deposit Recycling in Australia
Read more: Coca Cola is Out of Order – Grassroots Campaign For Container Deposit Recycling in AustraliaIn March 2013 we started a grassroots boycott movement against Coca-Cola for exploiting legal loopholes to kill off container deposit recycling in the Northern Territory. We simply used the same successful strategy as the ANZ Out of Order action, putting…
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Coal Seam Greed – Coal Seam Gas Hoax
Read more: Coal Seam Greed – Coal Seam Gas HoaxCoal Seam Greed was going to be a simple satire showing Katso and Nowhereman posing as a mining company called Reed Gas and erecting notices stating their intent to explore for unconventional gas or CSG in inner-city Brisbane. The idea…
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Doll Protest / Mini Protest
Read more: Doll Protest / Mini ProtestThis demonstration was in response to a new law (as of June, 2012) imposing fines for unauthorized protest of up to $20,000 for organizers and $10,000 for participants. After activists were turned down for a more traditional protest, Lyudmila Alexandrova…
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A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby…
Read more: A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby…Text taken from Creative Time website: To say there is a riddle lurking in the sugar-coated monument conceived by Kara Walker may be an understatement as big as the sculpture itself. A massive sphinx-turned-mammy, she stands mute, looking outward, acting…
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Shibboleth
Read more: ShibbolethText taken from website: Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth is the first work to intervene directly in the fabric of the Turbine Hall. Rather than fill this iconic space with a conventional sculpture or installation, Salcedo has created a subterranean chasm that…
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Real Pictures
Read more: Real PicturesText taken from website: Alfredo Jaar seizes the challenge of making art out of information most people would rather avoid: the plight of refugees, genocide, ethnic and political violence. Rather than offering information in an expected or familiar form, Jaar…