Projects tagged "Cities"

The Dreamland Artist Club
Practitioner:
Tauba Auerbach, Beatriz Barral, Crash, Ronnie Cutrone, Os Gemeos, Justin Green, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Mimi Gross, Vandana Jain, Greg Lamarche, Paul Lindahl, Clive Murphy, Gary Panter, Kamau Patton, Bruno Peinado, Steve Powers, and Swoon
Date:
Jun 18 2005
The Dreamland Artist Club project was named after one of the famous amusement parks in Coney Island. The project consisted of more than 25 artists coming together to repaint rides and make custom signs, murals and scenic backdrops for the legendary neighborhood. Most of the artists that participated in this project were from New York City and therefore had a particular interest in the visual culture of the city.
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Soviet Army Monument - REDUX
Practitioner:
various activists
Date:
Feb 23 2014
Since the beginning of Bulgaria's transition to democracy, the monument’s meaning and future has been the subject of heated debates. Opponents to the monument aren’t happy about the presence of such a dominating foreign army monument in the country that is situated higher and more central than national symbols. In recent years, the monument has turned into a canvas for anonymous political statements on multiple occasions.
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Hundreds of ‘honey bears’ posted all over SoMa in street art protest
Practitioner:
fnnch
Date:
Jan 29 2018
Local artist fnnch wants San Francisco to decriminalize certain types of art. You’re not seeing things: A whopping 450 “honey bears”—variations on the immediately recognizable and widely imitated bear-shaped honey bottles sold in seemingly every store in America--appeared all over SoMa late Sunday night, from the Embarcadero to Fifth Street.
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Invisible Homeless
Practitioner:
Luke Jerram, 1625 Independent People
Date:
Dec 22 2015
Artist Luke Jerram created a genderless sleeping figure made of glass lying on a piece of cardboard and exhibited in the streets of London. The artist said in an interview "For every person you see sleeping on the streets, there are many others sleeping in hostels, squats and other forms of unsatisfactory and insecure accommodation.
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Experimental Wall #27
Practitioner:
La Fiambrera
Date:
Jun 1 1999
This action was suggested in the workshop assembly by a neighbor of Arrayán street itself. At the end of this street giving the market there was a wall in a state of collapse that concerned the neighborhood. On several occasions, either neighbors or from the same Peña Bética in front of them, they had given by the City Council, but without results. And every day having to go all the way through that gorge with two
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What to do with a statue of Christopher Columbus?
Practitioner:
Tatzu Nishi
Date:
Sep 12 2012
“Discovering Columbus,” by the Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi. Nishi built a living room around the sculpture in Columbus Circle in New York City. The living room is mounted on scaffolding and turns the sculpture into a domestic center-piece.
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