Projects tagged "Installation"

Muro
Practitioner:
Bosco Sodi
Date:
Sep 7 2017
A wall will go up in Washington Square Park on Sept. 7, but come down by the end of the day. Called “Muro,” this wall will be the artist Bosco Sodi’s first public installation in New York, in partnership with Paul Kasmin Gallery. It will be more than 6 feet high and about 26 feet long, made with 1,600 clay timbers fired in Oaxaca, Mexico.
HOME
Practitioner:
Julia Vogl
Date:
Jul 27 2012
In partnership with Southwark Council, Peckham Settlement, Peckham Space and Resonance FM. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and Kickstarter Campaign supporters.
Refuge
Practitioner:
City of Melbourne Arts House
Date:
Jul 1 2016
Refuge is a 5 year transdisciplinary project that brings together artists, community members and emergency services to investigate arts and culture’s role in developing preparedness and building community resilience for climate related disasters.
Chatty cockroach
Practitioner:
Myrto Sarma and Dimitra Trousa
Date:
Jun 15 2019
This is the image confronting Greeks from an Athenian drain . "Hello, I live in the sewers of Athens," says the cockroach. "Yes, me too," says an Athenian walking past, apparently unfazed by the idea of an insect talking to him from a drain.
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.
Local artist stages demonstration inspired by protesters in China
Practitioner:
Yolanda He Yang
Date:
Dec 11 2022
Late last month, Chinese citizens took up a creative means of protest over the nation’s strict “zero-COVID” policy. In a place with little tolerance for large public demonstrations, protesters have been holding up blank pieces of paper. Their ingenuity inspired a local artist Yolanda He Yang to stage a public art demonstration to subtly communicate their dissent.
The Whole World Is An Art School
Practitioner:
Bob and Roberta Smith
Date:
Feb 13 2018
Bob and Roberta Smith has been at the forefront of activist art for 2 decades; so who better to ask about how art is responding to these politically bleak times?
what is missing?
Practitioner:
Maya Lin
Date:
Jan 1 2009
“What Is Missing?” is a multi-sited memorial created by Maya Lin to raise awareness through science-based artworks about the present sixth mass extinction of species, connect this loss of species to habitat degradation and loss, and emphasize that by protecting and restoring habitat, we can both reduce carbon emissions and protect species.
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.
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.
Act Now - Our House Is Flooding
Practitioner:
Extinction Rebellion
Date:
Nov 10 2019
In the early hours of Sunday 10th November, Extinction Rebellion activists staged an action on the river Thames in London. A classic suburban house was seen floating down the river, sinking into the water in yet another attempt to send an SOS to the government on climate inaction and draw attention to the threat humans face from climate change and rising sea levels.
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.
Power Call
Practitioner:
Sue Mark, Bruce Douglas
Date:
Jan 1 2015
Power Call is a nomadic, interactive energy commons in San Francisco to the Bay Area. Using low-tech systems, Power Call harnesses, stores and dispenses energy for recharging a variety of cell phones. Anyone can contribute to the energy commons by spending a few minutes pumping the machine, creating a charge for yourself or a future person in need.
14,000 Refugee Life Jackets
Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei
Date:
Feb 14 2016
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei covered a Berlin landmark with thousands of refugee life jackets for his latest installation. The striking display was the activist's attempt to highlight the scale of migrants taking to the seas every day.
The Guerrilla Girls attack gender and class bias at Art Basel Hong Kong
Practitioner:
Guerrilla Girls
Date:
Mar 29 2018
For more than 30 years, the Guerrilla Girls have travelled the world exposing sexism and inequality in the art industry, and this week they proved Hong Kong was no exception. Three members of the anonymous feminist collective—calling themselves Frida Kahlo, Käthe Kollwitz and Zubeida Agha—spoke at the University of Hong Kong on Monday, dressed in their signature black outfits and gorilla masks.
Time Redefined: Maarten Baas' 'Real Time' Series
Practitioner:
Maarten Baas
Date:
Apr 1 2009
The "Real Time" series by Maarten Baas is an avant-garde collection of art installations and functional timepieces that question the very basics of how to measure and experience time. It has, therefore, been a unique mix of performance art with functional design since 2009. Baas reimagines how time may be seen in his various installations in a provoking, innovative, engaging, and reflective manner for all audiences.
The Chronicles of Resilience
Practitioner:
FX Harsono
Date:
Mar 3 2016
For FX Harsono, art is activism. Over the past four decades, performance, sculpture, and painting have become his means of nonviolent protest against government autocracy and ethnic strife in Indonesia.
Mapping skin deep
Practitioner:
CERRUCHA
Date:
Mar 17 2014
“Mapping skin deep” is an audiovisual public installation consisting of portraits with testimonies from refugee/undocumented immigrants currently residing in Montreal and elsewhere. Their bodies have been scarred in post-production tracing the route they took from their homeland to Montreal, hence mapping them skin deep.
Utopian Infrastructure: The Campesino Basketball Court
Practitioner:
ARPDELESP
Date:
May 30 2023
The Mexican Pavilion is an immersive space based on a 1:1 scale fragment of the expanded model of the campesino basketball court, an infrastructure that has become repurposed as a space for poly- and pluri-valent processes of decolonisation in Mexico’s indigenous communities.
Rainbow Makeover: Swedish Response to Russian anti-LGBTQ+ Discrimination.
Practitioner:
Local LGBT activists
Date:
Aug 12 2013
Swedish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights advocates offered their colorful stance on Russia's controversial anti-gay legislation over the weekend.
Mobile Homeless Homes
Practitioner:
Joey Skaggs
Date:
Apr 23 2012
Muppets Revenge 
The Police are Present
Practitioner:
Luzinterruptus
Date:
Aug 6 2014
If you happened to be walking in the neighborhood of Madrid's Congress of Deputies this month, you might have noticed a strange sight.
Day Without Meat
Practitioner:
Animal Equality
Date:
Mar 20 2013
While this protest draws quick and reactive attention and awareness to the issue at hand; it does fail to make clear the message that they intend to protest. The audience, which seems to be the general public, may focus on the scandal of the protest. The the vulgar display people as a bloody pieve of meat. Yet, these shocking images do draw the viewer to the cruel way animals are handled by the meat industry.
Foreigners Everywhere
Practitioner:
Claire Fontaine
Date:
May 30 2012
The Paris-based collective Claire Fontaine displays a neon sign that spells the words ‘Foreigners Everywhere’ in Arabic. Since this sign was installed strategically above the gallery’s wall-length window – facing in the street – in the edition of the show I saw, at Parsons in New York, it interacted not only with Parsons’ exhibition site but also with the urban environment beyond it.
Project Row Houses, 1993-2018, Houston (Texas)
Practitioner:
Project Row Houses
Date:
Jan 1 1993
Collective Creativity in the Beginning Project Row Houses (PRH) is, and has always been, a unique experiment in activating the intersections between art, cultural and historic preservation, affordable and innovative housing, community engagement and development, neighborhood revitalization, and human empowerment. Urban Landscape as Canvas

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