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Homeless Vehicle Project

Date:
Jan 1 1988

Together with a group of homeless New Yorkers, Wodiczko constructed the Homesless Vehicle as an instrument of survival for urban nomads. A modified shopping cart that facilitates refundable bottle and can collection, it also provides temporary shelter. As a house…

Across Athens, Graffiti Worth a Thousand Words of Malaise

Practitioner:
Athenians

Date:
Jan 1 1988

ATHENS — The young man climbed a 30-foot scaffold on a building in central Athens and dipped a brush into a tray of gray paint. With rapid flicks of his wrist, he outlined a haunting image: a baby with two…

Unland

Practitioner:
Doris Salcedo

Date:
Jan 1 1988

Doris Salcedo talked extensively with victims of the violence in Colombia. For the project titled Unland she spoke specifically with children who had witnessed the murder of their parents. This piece was a poetic response and representation of their testimony.…

Syrian Artists Set Guinness Record By Building World’s Largest Mural Out Of Recycled Goods

Practitioner:
Syrian artists

Date:
Jan 1 1988

A group of Syrian artists in Damascus has created the world’s biggest mural made of recycled materials, a rare work aimed at brightening public space in a city sapped by war and sanctions. The brightly coloured, 720-sq metre work was…

The Indebted States of America

Practitioner:
Eric Leppanen – EALART

Date:
Jan 1 1988

With past government shut downs and teetering the fiscal cliff, debt ceiling now eliminated, credit line increase after credit line increase? I thought my timely art piece may be interesting for your viewers and spark healthy/heated discussion. Attached: My recent…

A street art project paints a brighter future for Syrian refugee camps

Practitioner:
Awareness & Prevention Through Art (AptART)

Date:
Jan 1 1988

Following on from Ruben Shanchez’s mural on the Syrain boader, we head back to the same subject with Awareness & Prevention Through Art (AptART) is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to give vulnerable children an artistic experience with an opportunity…

Art Activists Use Sex Dolls To Protest Spain’s Controversial Anti-Abortion Law

Practitioner:
Luzinterruptus

Date:
Jan 1 1988

In response to Spain’s increasingly restrictive legislation limiting access to abortion in the country, a group of art activists known for their bold, disruptive flair are taking action. The members of Luzinterruptus created “Rights to Trample On,” a radical art…

“The Neighbors” Exhibition at the New Museum

Practitioner:
New Museum, Paweł Althamer

Date:
Jan 1 1988

Beginning in February 2014, the New Museum will present the first US museum exhibition devoted to the work of Polish artist Paweł Althamer. The exhibition “The Neighbors” will include a new presentation of the artist’s work, Draftsmen’s Congress, originally presented…

Mending Baghdad

Practitioner:
Clara Wainwright

Date:
Jan 1 1988

Mending Baghdad is a four-and-a-half-by-six-and-a-half-foot quilt memorializing Baghdad as it looked during the American bombing on the first nights of the Iraq war. The purpose of the project is to bring people together to do something symbolically curative for Iraq.…

Comics: A Graphic Record of the Here and Now

Practitioner:
Creative Time, curated by Shane Bennan, multiple artists

Date:
Jan 1 1988

Creative Time, a public art fund, invited artists to make online comics that addressed contemporary issues. Every month for two years a new artist presented their comic strip online. At the end, there were a total of 24 comic works…