Projects tagged "Installation"

Snake Ceiling
Practitioner:
Ai Wei Wei
Date:
Aug 17 2013
On May 12, 2008, a massive earthquake in China’s Sichuan province killed approximately 90,000 people. Ai Weiwei created this serpentine sculpture, made of backpacks, to commemorate the more than 5,000 school children who were killed when their shoddily constructed schools collapsed.
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Student Desks Fill LA City Street in Dropout-rate Protest
Practitioner:
students, parents and activists
Date:
Apr 8 2014
School desks placed by parents, district graduates and activists block a street in front of the Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters in a demonstration against student dropout rates Tuesday, April 8, 2014, in downtown Los Angeles. Protest organizers say the 375 desks are there to represent the 375 students who drop out of the district every week during the school year.
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Transient Typewrite Project
Practitioner:
Melrose Poetry Bureau
Date:
May 13 2015
Founded by Bobby Gordon and Nayeli Adorador Knudsen, The Melrose Poetry Bureau is a public intervention involving a whole lot of typewriters, a public space, and the chaos that ensues. Once a location is picked for an intervention, Bobby and Nayeli pack up their collection of old and new, sleek and saggy typewriters and transport them to that place. They set up tables, distribute the typewriters, and invite people to come write poetry.
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World Art Day 2022: Ghanaian graffiti artists launch environmental protection campaign in Ada
Practitioner:
Tapioca Foundation, Imposters Art Collective
Date:
Apr 15 2022
As part of the commemoration of this year’s World Art Day (April 15), Ghanaian-based Tapioca Foundation and Imposters Art Collective have embarked on a campaign to educate the public about environmental sustainability. The project, which was launched in Ada in the Greater Accra Region, is intended to use art pieces to highlight issues relating to environmental protection and climate action to boost awareness in local communities.
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The Climate Clock
Practitioner:
Andrew Boyd & Gan Golan
Date:
Sep 15 2020
For more than 20 years, Metronome, which includes a 62-foot-wide 15-digit electronic clock that faces Union Square in Manhattan, has been one of the city’s most prominent and baffling public art projects.
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Deepfake Activism: Campaign Uses AI to Target Germany's Far-Right Party
Practitioner:
Zentrum für Politische Schönheit (ZPS)
Date:
Nov 23 2023
The German government is considering legal action after a deep fake video of Chancellor Olaf Scholz calls for the far-right AfD party to be banned.
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Lebanon rape law: Wedding dresses hang in Beirut sea front protest
Practitioner:
Lebanese Activists
Date:
Apr 22 2017
Activists campaigning to change Lebanon's law on rape have staged a macabre protest on Beirut's famous sea front. What appeared to be more than 30 white wedding dresses were hung from nooses, strung up between the palm trees. Lebanese law currently allows a rapist to be exonerated if he marries his victim. The activists are pressing to have the legislation abolished at an upcoming session of parliament.
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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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Tactical Ice Cream Unit - Selling Ice Cream, With Sprinkles of Anarchism
Practitioner:
Aaron Gach and Center for Tactical Magic
Date:
Sep 16 2008
By COREY KILGANNON There was something odd about the ice cream truck that pulled up to the curb on Park Avenue near 67th Street on Friday, with its proletarian color scheme and its overdressed driver with the subversive grin.
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Cloud Studies
Practitioner:
Forensic Architecture
Date:
May 29 2020
Forensic Architecture's Cloud Studies is a project that investigates the impact of toxic clouds on colonised and oppressed communities. The clouds, originating from sources like tear gas, industrial emissions, chemical weapons, and forest fires, often go unaddressed due to doubt and denialism.
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11,541 Empty Chairs
Practitioner:
Bosnians
Date:
Apr 6 2012
Empty chairs were laid out in Sarajevo today in honour of the 11,541 people killed in the city during the Bosnian war which began exactly 20 years ago. The seats - lined up along the city's main street - were left empty in memory of the victims of the 44-month Serb siege of the city. Hundreds of the chairs are small representing the children slain in the conflict.
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Video Art on China's Demolished Urban Scenery
Practitioner:
Cao Fei, Gucci
Date:
Feb 3 2015
Rumba II: Nomad (3'24'' excerpt) 2015 / video / 14mins 16secs Sound by Dickson Dee Commissioned by GUCCI
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At Frieze, Do Ho Suh and Brother Eul Ho Suh Explore Intergenerational Legacies in Korean Art
Practitioner:
Suh Se Ok
Date:
Sep 6 2024
South Korean artist Do Ho Suh is internationally known for his ghostly, diaphanous architecture and fabric-made objects, which create imaginary spaces that are physically present yet impossible to inhabit. His large-scale, immersive, but impermanent installations serve as “acts of memorialization,” exploring themes of identity, home, and the tension between personal and public space.
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‘The Bus’ memorial for Ken Saro-Wiwa
Practitioner:
Platform and Sokari Douglas Camp
Date:
Nov 1 2006
In 1994, the human rights and environmental activist KenSaro-Wiwa was arrested and accused of incitement to murder. Eighteen months later, following a show trial condemned by human rights organisations, he and eight other leaders of the Movement For the Survival of the Ogoni People were executed by hanging, an act that propelled the story on to the front pages of newspapers worldwide.
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The Clothesline Project
Practitioner:
Rachel Carey-Harper
Date:
Oct 1 1990
According to the Men's Rape Prevention Project in Washington DC, 58,000 soldiers died in the Vietnam war. During that same period of time, 51,000 women were killed mostly by men who supposedly loved them.
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Nikeplatz
Practitioner:
Coachella Valley
Date:
Sep 1 2003
In September 2003 the news went out nationwide: Karlsplatz, one of Vienna's main squares, is soon to be renamed Nikeplatz. Apart from the new name, it appears that a huge monument in the shape of Nike's famous "Swoosh" logo will be built in Nikeplatz. Needless to say, it is all fake.
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"Medicine Man," a mobile sculpture commissioned by MAKE ART/STOP AIDS
Practitioner:
Daniel Goldstein, John Kapellas, MAKE ART/STOP AIDS
Date:
Jan 1 2006
"Medicine Man," a mobile sculpture that MAKE ART/STOP AIDS commissioned from San Francisco-based artists Daniel Goldstein and John Kapellas. The piece is constructed of pill bottles that Goldstein and Kapellas, and their partners, saved up from treatment regimens dating as far back as 1985. The artists assembled the bottles in the shape of the Virgin of Guadalupe, with an aureole of syringes arrayed around her body in a halo.
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Ukraine Day of Unity
Practitioner:
Unify Ukraine Campaign
Date:
Jan 22 2023
February 24, 2023 will mark one year since the Russian invasion and occupation of Ukraine began. Russia is attempting to take over Ukrainian territory and destroy its rich, vibrant culture. Ukrainians are fighting for their country and right to exist as free, independent people. For months, Ukrainians have endured relentless bombardment, destruction, and hardship.
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Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate
Practitioner:
Katie Knight
Date:
Feb 14 2008
The Creativity Movement (formerly known as the World Church of the Creater) is a self proclaimed white supremacist organization with factions across the United States. In 2004, a high ranking leader of the Montana based faction defected from the group, but not before donating over 4,000 of the group's bibles called the 'RAHOWA' (acronym for racial holy war) to the Montana Human Rights Network.
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The Gate
Practitioner:
Igor Toshevski
Date:
Jan 1 2016
A site specific intervention аs part of the group exhibition Sculptural, organized and partly financed by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje. The text INVEST IN FUTURISM is a quotation of a gaffe uttered by the Macedonian PM on public TV stating his plans to incorporate contemporary art in their right wing populist programme and the infamous project Skopje 2014.
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Pineapple
Practitioner:
Lloyd Jack & Ruairi Gray
Date:
May 11 2017
How did a pineapple become a postmodern masterpiece? The aesthetic merits of tropical fruit inadvertently entered Britain’s national cultural conversation after two students jokingly placed a store-bought pineapple on an empty table at an art exhibition this month at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, a port city in northeastern Scotland.
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Artist cages Boston's "Make Way for Duckings" statue
Practitioner:
Karyn Alzayer
Date:
Aug 9 2019
Alzayer put cages around Boston's "Make Way for Ducklngs" statues, separating the baby duckling statues from the mother. The original statues were created in 1987 by Nancy Schon and the mallard family is based on the children's book by Robert McCloskey.
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El Cerro
Practitioner:
Chemi Rosado Seijo
Date:
Jan 1 2002
Excerpts from Chemi Rosado's lecture at The Creative Time Summit 2011:
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Long Branch Library Plaza Installation
Practitioner:
Ronit Eisenbach and John Ruppert and students
Date:
May 1 2013
After researching several potential sites as far afield as Baltimore, Eisenbach and Ruppert “became attracted to the library because the plaza has never been used,” Eisenbach says, citing the fact that the library’s second-level entrance onto the plaza is locked.
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Sex at the Specs
Practitioner:
School for Creative Activism
Date:
Apr 2 2015
The “Perceiving Freedom” glasses sculpture on Cape Town’s Sea Point promenade looking towards Robben Island, commemorates late President Nelson Mandela and the values of freedom and equality.
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