Das Projekt “Occupy George” bedruckt Geldscheine mit eindeutigen Botschaften: “Money talks, but not loud enough for the 99%. By circulating dollar bills stamped with fact-based infographics, Occupy George informs the public of America’s daunting economic disparity one bill at a time. Because money knowledge is power.” Via
Der niederländische Künstler und Blogger Niels Post klebt Business-Spam auf die Schaufenster leerstehender Geschäfte: “A series of interventions/photographs for which I collect sentences from business proposals that are being emailed to me and that I have plotted out as vinyl adhesive letters. With those sentences I look for vacant commercial windows (shops, offices). Once a suitable window is found I then paste a sentence on the empty shopping window. Oddly enough the business opportunities a vacant shopping space offer work beautifully with the empty promises of loads of money in your email box.”
Der US-Performancekünstler Nate Hill als “The White Ambassador” in Harlem: “Greetings, White People! I am your ambassador. Some black people think we stink, simply because we are white. Can we change their minds? As your ambassador, I will try. Synopsis: The White Ambassador started by going to Harlem to tell black people that they could be racist, but many told him they didn’t have enough power to be racist. He adjusted his approach to say that black people could have prejudice. That was received better but still not well, and two common arguments arose — “White people started it” and “White people don’t care what we think.” The White Ambassador then went to the Upper East Side to see for himself if this were true. He was mostly ignored by white people on the street. Perhaps it was because white people weren’t aware of the stereotype that they smell funny to black people, or they don’t care, or the ambassador was intimidating to them in whiteface. The ambassador then returned to Harlem, and told black folks that he didn’t think white people cared, and that they were right to begin with.” Via: Linktipp
Johannes P Osterhoff hat seine einjährige Google-Performance beendet: “Da ein Script für jede Suchanfrage automatisch eine HTML-Seite erstellt hat und diese mit den anderen so erzeugten Seiten verlinkt wurde, entstand automatisch ein Netzwerk von über 8000 Seiten. Hauptsächlich aufgrund dieser Größe (und auch der Aktualität mit der ich dieses Gebilde durch meine ständige Suche aktualisiert habe), sind diese Seiten, die außer meinen Suchbegriffen und deren Datum eigentlich keinen Inhalt haben, recht gut bei Google gerankt und werden in den normalen Google-Ergebnissen angezeigt, wenn jemand das Gleiche oder etwas ähnliches sucht. Aber das ganze ist nicht nur Google Bustig, sondern eine Entsprechung zur Street Art im öffentlichen Raum – nur dass die Google-Ergebnisse einen halb-öffentlichen Online-Raum darstellen.” Zur diesjährigen Transmediale (ab 31.1) wird Osterhoff zusammen mit rund 20 Leuten eine Woche lang öffentlich googeln. Das Projekt wird auch beim 25. Stuttgarter Filmwinter (ab 19.1) vorgestellt und läuft dort im Wettbewerb “Network Culture”. Bei ARTE Creative kann man übrigens ab heute über seine Lieblingsarbeit abstimmen…
“Arrows”
“UFP: unitendified flying person”
“Invisible minority”
“Switch”
Pfeile, Schalter, Finger und unidentifizierte fliegende Personen im öffentlichen Raum: Milo Project aus Paris. Via: Mail, merci Laurence!
Die russische Voina-Gruppe zündelt wieder: “On December 31, 2011 at 23:25 Voina activists climbed over the fence to the yard of the police station №71 in St. Petersburg to hold an auto-da-fe for a police prisoner transport truck. The prison-on-wheels was set on fire with Molotov cocktails and totally burned down. Oleg Vorotnikov, Leonid Nikolayev, Natalia Sokol and other activists took part in the action. Cops didn’t succeed in arresting any of them. Alexei Plutser-Sarno’s statement: “Dear Russians, this action is a modest gift to all of you from the Voina Group. It’s a gift to all political prisoners of Russia: Philip Kostenko, Sergei Udaltsov, Taisia Osipova, Sergei Mokhnatkin, Vladimir Bukovsky and many others. We dedicate this action to the deceased heroic political prisoners Sergei Magnitsky, Anatoly Marchenko, Kronid Lyubarsky, Alexander Ginzburg, Andrei Sinyavsky, Yuri Galanskov, Yuli Daniel. Let’s destroy all prisons! Freedom to all political prisoners! Feds don’t fuck us – we fuck feds! Happy New Year, comrades!” Via: Mail
“Doorknobs”: “Placed on blocked-off doors on buildings in Leipzig. From a handle- to a door. This work is not about the door handle, although that is the only artifact involved. It is about the kind of fantasies that are triggered by discovering something in a place where it doesn’t belong.”
“Kopfsalat”: “Kopf’ in German is the word for head, meaning this temporary installation is titled ‘head of lettuce.’ It humorously desplays the artist’s strong craving for familiarity whilst bringing together production, excess produce, and a deterioration of domestic life.”
“Umbrellas”: “In 5 different locations around the neighborhood of Wollishofen, over 100 umbrellas were installed. In this particular installation; a small waiting room in the middle of a platform was filled with over a hundred umbrellas.”
“Potter Row”: “This was an instillation placed in a very public, high foot traffic area. Extra plastic bags were collected around the neighborhood of this location. This plastic bag quilt was then cut into small pieces and stuck together with thinned Latex.”
Premiere bei rebel:art: Herzlich Willkommen, Kimberly Meenan! “My work explores the moments when the borders between public and private, religious and artistic, physical and impermanent are blurred. I marvel at subtleties of light, as it is transformed through optical phenomena. Movement in cycles and through chaos intrigues me as I compare the mechanical with the natural world. Everyday, I am fascinated with the correlation between art and life; life and beauty; beauty and breath.” Via: Linktipp
