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Evolving from graffiti and street art, urban interventions are the next generation of artwork to hit public space. Using any and all of the components that make up urban
and rural landscapes, these mostly spatial interventions bring art to the masses. They turn the street into a studio, laboratory, club, and gallery. Modified traffic signs, swings at bus stops, and images created out of sand or snow challenge us to rediscover
our environment and interact with it in new ways. The work is an intelligent and critical commentary on the planning, use, and commercialization of public space. With a rich visual selection of projects and methods, Urban Interventions documents
this new artistic approach to urban art that is currently making a profound
mark on our contemporary visual language. The book shows the growing connections and interplay of this scene with art, architecture, performance, and installation.
Propagators of urban intervention surprise and provoke with work in cities
including New York and London, but also in countries such as China, Columbia, and Turkey. Everywhere the work appears it turns public spaces into individual experiences. Urban Interventions is the first book to document these very current, personal art projects in a comprehensive way.
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Chapter 1: Urban Canvas
- Haas & Hahn, Favela painting; Vila Cruzeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2006 (p31)
- ZASD,Berlin based artist
- Arrow Pieses
- Arrows Generation I,II
- Acupunture Attempts; Berlin, 2009
- Graffiti Research Lab
- VR/Urban, SMSlingshot, Berlin, 2009
- Electroboutique, Digiluck, Oslo, 2008-2009
- Johannes Vogl, Five Moons, Vienna, 2007
- Haque Design+Research, Open Burble Burble: Singapore, 2006 & Burble London, 2007
- HeHe with Helen Evans, Nuage Vert(Green Cloud), helsinki. 2008
Chapter2: Localized
- Pilar Lopez Baez, Little pieces of paper in the walls; Madrid, 2009(p79)
- ‘The artist writes short texts in small pieces of paper and inserts them into little crannies in street walls. This project aims at giving buildings a voice. The pieces of paper are left to be found by pedestrians at an improbable moment.’
- Slinkachu,
- Slinkachu is also featured in book”Beyond The Street(p330)”
- What brings us together and what keeps us apart, 2009 (p85)
- installation made at Fame Festival, at Grottaglie(South of Itary, near Brindisi) ,
- ‘For this street art and photography project, the “Little People Project”, the artist remodels and paints miniature model train set characters, which are then placed on the streets and in public spaces…’
- Dan Witz,
- Third Man Series; Brooklyn, New York, 2008
- Dark Doings’ series, New York, 2009
- Ugly New Buildings series, New York, 2009
- In Plain View, Williamsburg, New York 2009
- ‘The “Kilroy Variations” are photo-based, heavily re-painted stickers glued to the walls of new modern architecture.
Chapter3: Attachments
- ‘extensions within the cityscape’
- ‘parasitic takeover of evーeryday spaces and structures, to which we adapt ourselves as we move through the city, can be witnessed in a wide array of works..’
- Luzinterruptus
- A lot of policeman for so few people..;Malasana district, Madrid, 2009
- Urban Trash(IV); Carretas st., Madrid, 2009
- Public toilets;Malasana district, Madrid, 2009
- ‘Luzinterruptus is an anonymous artistic group that carries out urban interventions in public spaces using light as a raw material and darkness as the canvas. The three members of the team come from three different disciplines: art, lighting, and photography.’
- Jan Vormann
- Dispatchwork; Berlin, Belgrade, Arnsberg, Israel, Arnsberg, Amsterdam
- Using LEGO block to fill gaps and nicks in urban spaces.
- Dan Wits
- Prank;Greenpoint, New York, 2005
- balloon on building facade to make it looks like a face.
Chapter4: Public Privacy
- (the chapter) follows very different strategies that dissolve the boundaries between the private and the public, the familiar and the alien, in the urban realm.
- Jason Eppink
- Take a Seat; various metro stations, New York, 2007-ongoing
- ‘Take a seat’ is an ongoing series of public furniture installations aimed at increasing the availability of seating options in New York City subway stations. Perfectly functional chairs are rescued from trash piles and reassigned to stations.
- Arno Piroud
- Assises ephemeres (ephemeral seats); Paris, 2007-2009
- Cedric Bernadotte
- Sofa at “grenier a sons”; Cavaillon, 2004
- Interventions in public space; Toulon, 2003, Pau, 2009
- Cedric Bernadotte’s experiments focus on the human presence in cities, namely how to adapt public spaces using inexpensive and ephemeral means. Questioning the frontier between public and private spaces, he works with tape, cellophane, and inflatables and creates new spaces by grafting existing urban furniture (p143)
- Liesbet Bussche
- Urban Jewelry, Amsterdam, 2009(p145)
- Carol Hummel
- Knitscape Larchmere, 2009(p149)
- Kristof Kintera(p 157)
- Lay down and Shine; Paradubice, 2008
- Miracle(500 days from 12th September 2008); Tilburg, 2008
- My Light us Your Light; 2008
- Michael Rakowitz
- paraSITE, New York, 1998-2000
Chapter 5: Activated( p 173-)
- The projects here range from flash mobs and other choreographed events within the city,…
- Compagnie Willi Dorner (p179)
- The Yes Man(p191)
- The New York Times, New York, 2008
- LIGNA, Radio Ballet; Leipzig, 2003 (p196)
Chapter 6: Advertised (p201-)
Chapter 7: Natural Ways(p245-)
- Vanessa Harden(p255)
- The Subversive Gardener/Precision Bombing Device II/Precision Bombing Device I/MkII Agent Deployed Field Auger; London , 2009
- Guerilla Gardening subculture
- Markus Mai(p279)
- godlovesoul
- God; West Carpathians, 2004
- Mind; Magdeburg glacial valley,2004
- Play; Black Forest, 2004
- Beautiful Bastards; Berlin, 2005
