Here I am again posting projects that work with the city, reconfiguring urban landscapes and experiences... I hope this is of interest to the list. In fact this is not a project but the work of Brad Downey. I learnt about him in a talk he gave about street art at Tate Modern last year. His projects seemed to be very fresh and playful although they probably wouldn't stand hard critical scrutiny. I still find it worth having a look.
One of the interventions he showed was this huge heart he cut off a construction site. I guess big part of his charm relies on the same ideas that traditional street art relies. Making rapid incursions in public space, trespassing the limits of law, to leave a reconfigure the city artistically. http://www.braddowney.com/index.php?page=ladderstick2#ladderstick2 I liked the Spontaneous Sculptures a lot as well, again for its playfulness, naughtiness perhaps, and their colourful result.. http://www.braddowney.com/index.php?page=spon#spon "Subtle, comic and very often provocative, Downey aims to surprise the viewer by illuminating how public and private property, and urban space and personal experience, overlap in an era of increasing privatization. He finds forgotten remnants of urban architecture to re-invent and rejuvenate. These are then re-inserted into the everyday landscape. The works are a temporary disruption, usually remaining in place for as short a time as a few minutes, but also sometimes becoming a permanent fixture in the landscape of the metropolis." -- Olga http://www.ungravitational.net http://virtualfirefly.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
