This Was Lost, This Was Found, a project by Philadelphia based J. Meredith Warner and Jeremy Beaudry
This project maps out lost textiles that have been found throughout the streets of Philadelphia. Arrows are placed next to the objects, pointing towards the nearby disused textiles factory.
“This Was Lost, This Was Found marks lost items [...]
some notes from Sal Randolph’s pertinent essays on socially interactive art and ’social architecture.’
from her 2003 essay Notes on Social Architectures as Art Forms
“Social architectures as artworks are always functional artworks. People need a purpose for becoming part of the social organization beyond the simple fact that they are participating in an artwork, [...]
Les Monstres is a project I came across by Thomas Hirschorn, who is a visual artist/designer who often exhibits in huge museums like the Tate, as well as on the streets and in the public.
In this project, and a similar work called ’someone takes care of my work’ Hirschorn places his sculptures on the [...]
Looking into Lee Walton reminded me of Alex Villar, who I was researching last year in a project about psychogeography… here are a couple of his relevant projects…
Waste Management - Villar repurposes old dumpsters into cinemas, with video documentation of physical interventions in dumpsters and garbage heaps.
“Waste Management reflects upon what is considered [...]
I have been looking into the work of New York based artist Lee Walton, who makes playful interventions into everyday life, making videos along the way.
I am especially interested in these three projects - Relocating, The Serial Conversationalist and
Making Changes (New York).
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Relocating
2007
Lee Walton spends the day relocationg objects on the streets of New [...]
first images of push and pull
Originally uploaded by bilateral
this is an image from Lucas, of a reenactment of Kaprow’s ‘Push and Pull’ that he saw in New York.
‘push and pull’ instructions for a performance by Allan Kaprow that Lucas Ihlein put me on to.
PUSH AND PULL: A FURNITURE COMEDY FOR HANS HOFMANN
by Allan Kaprow
Prepared for the Museum of Modern Art’s traveling exhibit “Hans Hofmann and His Students,” April 1963. First printed in Decollage (ed. Vostell), No. 4 (1964), Cologne
Instructions:
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a white wooden slat picnic table
found: 10:13pm 25 February 2007
corner Mallett st. and Hampshire Lane camperdown NSW
This blog has a great overview of some really interesting projects based on shelter
the link is here http://criticalspatialpractice.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_archive.html
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Shelter
Dignity Village / Village Building Convergence
On December 16th of the year 2000, a group of eight homeless men and women pitched five tents on public land and Camp Dignity, later to become Dignity Village, was [...]
Excerpts from:
The Interventionists:Users’ Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life
by Nato Thompson and Gregory Scholette
(On Nomads – pp18 –19)
The Situationists may have walked the streets, but today many artists prefer wheels. These interventionists are nomads cruising through the homeland to discover and support dissonant forms of existence. As described earlier, William Pope [...]
