Projects tagged "Installation"

Commemorating the Marikana Massacre
Practitioner:
Anonymous Artists/Activists
Date:
Aug 14 2014
On August 14th 2014 several prominent statues within the city centre and the southern suburbs of Cape Town got redressed in green blankets, equipped with miner gear or carrying grocery bags. The statues – mainly of which represent colonial figures – were redressed in light of what has come to be known as the Marikana Massacre: the shooting of 34 miners by the local police force of Marikana, South Africa on August 16th, 2012.
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Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History
Practitioner:
Ian Alan Paul
Date:
Aug 1 2012
When the last detention facility in Guantanamo Bay was officially decommissioned in 2010, an international team of artists, curators and architects began planning and designing a museum that would take the place of the detention facility - a little less than two years later, their work became reality.
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Independence Square Sculpture: "New Ukraine"
Practitioner:
Roti
Date:
Jan 7 2014
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.
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Big street barbecue for the distinct people
Practitioner:
“Gente Diferenciada”
Date:
May 14 2011
In São Paulo, just like in many other metropolitan regions, public transport is not as effective as it could be. Buses and trains usually run overcrowded, late and on limited hours, so that owning a car increases a lot one’s comfort. But not everybody can afford to have one, so a clear and recurrent class distinction occurs: public transport is mostly used by poor people.
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Her Story homeless people
Practitioner:
Participants of the Creativity and Change course Cork City
Date:
Apr 13 2017
Brainstorm of ideas and collection of the group individual experiences and input. Preparation and design of the action. Interview of a member of local organization that is working with homeless. Research of data,concrete stories. Build up the scenario to establish the environment to raise awareness of the rising local issue of homeless, specifically female homeless and their challenges in daily life.
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Coca Cola is Out of Order - Grassroots Campaign For Container Deposit Recycling in Australia
Practitioner:
Katso
Date:
Mar 4 2013
In 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 out of order signs on Coca Cola vending machines and posting the photos on social media.
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Hall of Fame, Ciudadela México, Quito
Practitioner:
Tranvía Cero
Date:
Mar 4 2007
Tranvía Cero is a group of artists from Ecuador who have been creating artistic projects with the aim to empact community lives and change the ideas of art as an exclusive terrain. The describe their goal as a redefinition of art through the social engaging experiences.
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Pandas on Tour
Practitioner:
Paulo Grangeon
Date:
Jul 1 2008
Grangeon's long-running traveling exhibit, Pandas on Tour, features 1600 papier-mâché pandas. That's approximately one for as many as there are left in the world (recent estimates actually place the number slightly below that, at 1596).
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Europe's First Underwater Museum Offers A Stark Reminder of the Refugee Crisis
Practitioner:
James DeCairas Taylor
Date:
Feb 5 2016
Strap 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 off the coast of West Africa. Taylor, whose creations have spanned the waters from the Bahamas to London, calls it the first underwater contemporary art museum in Europe and the Atlantic Ocean.
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The Balloon Project by Yan Kong
Practitioner:
Asian American Women Artists Alliance
Date:
Oct 10 2019
The Balloon Project, is a three-year-in-the-making Art Installation by Yan Kong in support of world refugees and migrants. It pays tribute to human spirit, courage and survival. The Balloon Project is a multimedia work incorporating mechanical engineering and visuals to fuse art and politics. 32 balloons inflate and deflate to simulate refugee and migrants' breathing while fleeing their countries to seek safety and freedom in the world.
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The Last Billboard
Practitioner:
Jon Rubin
Date:
Jan 1 2013
The Last Billboard is a 36-foot art installation located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Created in 2013, it features a steel frame and removable wooden letters that must be arranged by hand. Each month a different artist, activist or individual is invited by creator and curator, Jon Rubin, to come and utilize the billboard space. The participants share messages over this medium in the form of thoughtful questions, esoteric musings, or other visual means.
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Entheon
Practitioner:
Alex Grey
Date:
May 15 2016
A striking new cultural space is taking shape in New York’s Hudson Valley. Alex Grey and Allyson Grey, co-founders of CoSM, Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, have launched a Kickstarter campaign to build Entheon, sanctuary of visionary art, to ask for support to complete the build.
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Candid Call Centre
Practitioner:
Angel Chen
Date:
Mar 29 2012
From March 29 to April 28, 2012, artist Angel Chen transformed Toronto's Whippersnapper Gallery into a pop-up call centre to field questions on the financial crisis. Phone lines were manned by passers-by, volunteers and guest operators, all of whom solicited callers for discussion about the current economic climate.
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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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Mobile Homeless Homes
Practitioner:
Joey Skaggs
Date:
Apr 23 2012
Muppets Revenge 
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Small World Machines
Practitioner:
Coca-Cola
Date:
May 19 2013
A new, three-minute ad by Coca-Cola, "Small World Machines," starts with a relatively straightforward premise: India and Pakistan do not get along so well. It ends with the promise of peace: "Togetherness, humanity, this is what we all want, more and more exchange," a woman, either Indian or Pakistani, narrates as the music swells. Sounds great. How do we get there? By buying Coke, of course.
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Thus.
Practitioner:
nilankur
Date:
Mar 1 2014
This is an attempt to foster critical thinking and create social capital. www.thuscritique.wordpress.com
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Viande de Brousse: a Bushmeat Food-Cart Project
Practitioner:
Roger Peet and Ryan Burns
Date:
May 5 2011
This is a project about bushmeat: the hunting of wild meat in the forests of sub-Saharan Africa, for our purposes specifically the Democratic Republic of Congo. This bushmeat food-cart serves up information and interpretations of the
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Share The Love
Practitioner:
Superheroes
Date:
Apr 27 2018
We were ‘Superheroes’ and had fun, colourful, engaging activities which had a high visual impact with a purpose to engage the head, hand and heart. We believe that everyone has superpowers within and they just need to be released but that all superheroes need a rest in order be at their best for themselves and others.
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And Where Do I Drive?
Practitioner:
Koce, Return to the Street
Date:
Nov 12 2015
Cyclist activists from the Koce, Return to the Street initiative set up sculptures symbolically showing the marginalization of cyclists in the city, the inadequate and dysfunctional infrastructure for this means of transport, but also to point out the large number of trampled bikers in Skopje.
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Stream of Conscience
Practitioner:
Art for Water
Date:
Feb 2 2013
Stream of Conscience is a site-specific, literary sculpture made out of torn pieces of cover-weight paper upon which people of all ages write their thoughts, feelings, and reflections about water. Prior to writing, participants engage in a dialogue about local water issues within a global context. The conversation is further distilled to include our personal relationship to water. Thousands of people have participated in this traveling exhibition.
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ŠTO TE NEMA (WHY ARE NOT YOU HERE)
Practitioner:
Aida Šehović
Date:
Jul 11 2018
ŠTO TE NEMA is a public monument created as a response to Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II - the systematic killing of 8,372 Muslim men and boys in the UN-protected safe area of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina in July of 1995.
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ANZ is Out of Order Campaign - Grassroots action against ANZ Bank in Australia
Practitioner:
Katso, Climate Change Activists
Date:
Feb 6 2013
On the 6th February 2013, 40 activists across 6 states plastered 110 ANZ ATMs with 'Out of Order' notices, sharing them on social media the following day. The objective was to use a hoax style action to exploit mainstream media sensitivity around ANZ Bank's unethical funding of fossil fuel projects that had been generated by Jonathan Moylan's Whitehaven Hoax a week earlier.
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Parliament in Exile
Practitioner:
Cressida Kocienski, Delfina Foundation Palestine & Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency
Date:
Jan 28 2012
Decolonizing Architecture/Art Residency (DAAR) is an art and architecture collective set up by Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal and Eyal Weizman, based in Palestine. Their work is a critical examination of the role played by architecture in the occupation of the Palestinian territories.
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¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York exhibition
Practitioner:
Bronx Museum, Museo del Barrio, Loisaida INC
Date:
Jul 1 2015
Spread over three institutions — the Bronx Museum of the Arts; El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem; and Loisaida Inc., a cultural center in the East Village — this show departs from straight political history by presenting the Young Lords as a cultural phenomenon as well as an ideological one, with a highly developed instinct for visual self-projection, right down to having an official party photographer, the gifted Hiram Maristany.
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