Urban Play: NL – Moving Forest
Dezember 2nd, 2008
Fotos: Mi Schoner & Scott Burnham
Noch ein wunderbares Projekt der Amsterdamer Ausstellung “Urban Play“: Das niederländische Architekturbüro NL hat 100 Bäume in Einkaufswagen gesteckt – und so einen “Moving Forest” geschaffen. “The Moving Forest are 100 trees strapped into 100 shopping-carts lurking around in an urban environment blocking peoples way and forcing passers to act on them. According to NL’s Gen Yamamoto the idea comes from a story he heard as a child about a forest where the trees move at night so that people would loose there way and could never get out. This story has been haunting him ever since. In his mind he could imagine people adopting a tree e.g. homeless could start to take one on their journey through the city. The trees would pop up unexpectedly in small side streets or dark corners or be pushed over a big public square. They would group in smaller groups or be sparkled over the town.” Mehr “Urban Play” hier, das Video der Aktion hier, via.
Dezember 2nd, 2008 at 10:29 pm
LETS PLAY TERROR
Nov 28th , 2008 the well known Russian artist Dimitri Pimenov , one of the ideologists of the Moscow actionism of the 1990s shot with a water gun a light bulb that blew up over Gorbachev’s head during his visit at the book fair “Non/Fiction” at the Central House of the Artists, Moscow. Nobody was hurt.
According to the very few reports on Internet , Gorbachev presented the first volumes of his memoirs. Some sources say that a light bulb exploded, some say it was a firecracker, therefore this part is still not clear. Everybody claim though that Pimenov had a toy-gun.
Dmitri had been arrested and sent to a psychiatric clinic. While the cops were taking him away, he shouted: “I am a subject of an artistic action conducted by Gorbachev’s guards!”
Dmitrii Pimenov, b. 1973. Writer, artist and activist, founder of the Union of Revolutionary Writers, member of the art collectives Expropriation of Territory of Art (ETI) (1991-1995) and „Absolute Love Sect“ (1995-2000). Editor of the magazine Radek and author of several novels among which „Haze Revolution“, „The Unsane Spy“ and „Velo.“ Leading actor in the film „ Don’t Look for this Show in The Programme“, 1995, The Secret Aestetic of the Martian Spyes 1 and 2“, 1995 and 1996, and others.
http://boryana-rossa.livejournal.com/17089.html
Dezember 4th, 2008 at 2:30 am
sehr gut;
schon beuys forderte die “stadtverwaldung” …
http://www.7000eichen.de
Dezember 4th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Absurdo arte de lo incierto.
Dezember 5th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Hach, ein herzerwärmende Aktion; uns Spaß ham’ se auch noch dabei! Toll!
Dezember 11th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Sehr schöne Aktion. Da hat doch jemand das sog. “Guerilla Gardening” (siehe Links) ein Stück weiter gedacht. Schade, daß die Einkaufswagen nur in dem abgegrenzten Areal umherfahren konnten. Wäre lustig gewesen, die Dinger am Ende über die halbe Stadt verteilt zu sehen.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerilla_Gardening
http://www.zeit.de/online/2008/38/guerrila-gardening
http://www.gruenewelle.org/index_de.html
März 12th, 2010 at 12:23 am
[...] Moving Forest – Im Rahmen der Amsterdamer Ausstellung Urban Play hat das Architekturbüro NL 100 Bäume in Einkaufswagen gepackt und so einen “Moving Forest” geschaffen. Das Video der Aktion gibt es hier zu sehen. (via rebelart) [...]