Projects tagged
Installation
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Color-Cycling
Read more: Color-CyclingCiclo-Color February 7, 2012, www.mastamagazine.net Having a bike as vehicle and paint as a tool, “Bici-Brochas” brings new colourful lines to the asphalt and, according to the chosen route, leaves a hint of colour that breaks up with the sobriety…
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Mobile Homeless Homes
Read more: Mobile Homeless HomesMuppets Revenge Joey Skaggs, www.artoftheprank.com At 11:00 a.m., April 23, 2012, artist Joey Skaggs will lead a band of outraged costumed muppets down to the Goldman Sachs offices at 200 West Street in NYC. Skaggs will be peddling his Mobile…
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Occupiers Set Up Living Room in Bank of America Lobby
Read more: Occupiers Set Up Living Room in Bank of America LobbyA crew of occupiers makes a home of a Bank of Americalobby with a couch, a coffee table, a rug and a pottedplant. “Bank of America took our homes so we though we’dmove in here!” External sources: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUzMLu4K_2o
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Free Subway Ride
Read more: Free Subway RideWednesday’s Free Subway Ride? That Was Occupy Wall Street If official-looking MTA signs directed you to breezily walk through open service gates during your Wednesday morning subway commute, you can thank Occupy Wall Street. The Brooklyn Paper and Daily News report that a team…
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Outraged homeless muppets to converge on Goldman Sachs
Read more: Outraged homeless muppets to converge on Goldman SachsNEW YORK, April 21, 2012 — Homelessness is a great American tragedy. Our financial system and government have let us down and we, together, must take a stand to change the way the system works. With over 11 million homes…
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Break Down
Read more: Break DownArtist Michael Landy catalogued, inventoried, and systemically destroyed all of his possessions for the 2001 public installation Break Down, commissioned by British arts organization Artangel. It took him three years just to itemize the 7,227 objects included in the project.…
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Lights in the City
Read more: Lights in the CityMontreal: The City of Lights In Canada Alfredo Jaar completed a project referred to as Lights in the City, in 1999. Keep in mind this is considered one of the richest cities in North America. with a large population of…
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Mexican Activists Protest Drug War Through Public Art
Read more: Mexican Activists Protest Drug War Through Public ArtHuff Post Latino Politics The Huffington Post While drug-related deaths continue to escalate as the Mexican drug war wages on, Mexican youth have resorted to peaceful and artistic forms of protest against the violence. Last Sunday, activists met on Mexico…
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The Freedom Trail on Trial
Read more: The Freedom Trail on TrialIn the fall of 2011, Urbano’s teen artists and artist-in-residence Neil Horsky partnered with professional artists, educators, librarians, and historians to undertake a critical investigation of Boston’s Freedom Trail. During the investigative process teen artists questioned the assumptions, accuracy, comprehensiveness,…
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Aqua Line
Read more: Aqua LineCreative Time, Social Practice Archive: In 2000 Heavy Trash, an anonymous arts organization of designers, architects, and urban planners, implemented its Aqua Line project throughout various parts of Los Angeles. The project involved the installation of false “Future Station Location”…