Pavement keyboard

Someone in Norwich came across this keyboard in the pavement....
And someone in Norwich obviously also made this keyboard.... very cool



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Panorama of life

This is technically not a public art piece for this blog, but I received the link in an email from my brother in law and thought it was amazing.
Very real - very much alive. Enjoy.

Panorama Art - we are all going to die

A subway art exhibit - Duchamp revisited?

I have been a fan of "Improveverywhere" for years and love their public pranks and stunts. Their last stunt places them SQUARE into this blogs purpose. Namely asking the question "What is art?"

Using "agents" (people who are part of the improv "team") they set up an art exhibit in the 23rd street subway platform in Manhattan - complete with coat-check, live music and drinks served. Everything is as always unauthorized and the police did show up eventually.



I urge you to follow the link at the bottom but I have attached some of the "art" they displayed; really love their notes on the art-pieces complete with some possible interpretations. We can find art anywhere if we just bother looking.... so what is art then?
The pipe

Convergence (1962)
MTA
"Electrical Conduit and Fittings, Tile Wall
This work is at once a heroic call to solidarity and a hopeful ode to the future. The diverse collection of pipes, flocking together chaotically from all across the platform, can only burst through the wall once they’ve banded together. Instead of a bright knowable future, however, the pipes - brimming full of power - disappear into the ambiguous dark abyss on the other side of the wall. The viewer is left in anticipation, hoping the newly-assembled coalition can successfully harness the energy within itself on the other side."


Drain (1975)
MTA and unknown artists
Mixed Media on Metal and Concrete

Describing the irresistibility of natural urges, and situated thematically near the restroom, this drainage grate offers deliverance. Consequently, here lies an indeliable yellow nitrogen stain, as evidence of the passings of hundreds, if not thousands of strained commuters. Each stranger, surreptitiously seeking relief, has helped create this totally organic, revolutionary art piece.

Telephone Line (2002)
Metropolitan Transit Authority in collaboration with Telecom

This homage to the urgency of communication is meant to highlight the recent necessity, from instant to instant, to maintain the potential for instantaneous, world-wide contact from any location, at any time. That a conversation from such a location would be abruptly interrupted by an arriving train suggests the artist’s intent to lampoon the perceived dependence on telecommunication.

The crowds just going about their usual subway traveling also got a good experience - some stopping to have a look...


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From the improveverywhere team I also urge you to have a look around their site. Got into it a few years ago when they did water-fountain-kayaking and other smaller stunts. Over the years they have grown to to incredibly cool public stunts like this and this

Legos meet history

I came across the work of Jan Vormann a while back and am absolutely in love with it. He patches up old walls using lego. The contrast between the historical walls and arches and the vibrant colors and different texture of the legos is stunning.

Here are some of the works he has done in Bocchignano, Italy “a village close to Rome, as part of the group project "20 Eventi". The group of artists developed projects for 4 villages of the Sabina region.”
Also some pictures from Tel Aviv, Israel for the exhibition "Length / Width"






http://www.janvormann.com/dispatchwork.php

Sneaking your art into the Venice Biennale

A few years back I was contacted by Guilia about an incredibly cool stunt she pulled at the Venice Biennale. Guilia wrote her thesis on "destruction, “detournement”, interaction, vandalism and other with art-works". (see - we are not all uneducated museum-spotters)

Gonzales Torres´ artwork "Untitled" (The End) is two stack of white posters with a black border where the museum-audience can take away sheets of paper if they please. During the Biennale everyone was carrying one around because they saw other people carrying the sheets - an automatic act.

So our art rebel in question took some papers and started folding them.
And sure enough - within a few minutes others caught on.
Guilia pulled back and the artwork that once was created by Torres now had taken on a new life. So who is the artist now? Is it Felix or Guilia?

If you had take the name of Torres away from the reams of paper and place them in a different setting - are they then still art?

Thanks so much for sharing Guilia.
Keep on asking questions - keep rebelling!!

A mighty big horse!

The first contact from a fellow art-rebel was in 2006.

A guy calling himself "Pietro" representing the Grand Rapids Alliance of MICHief in MICHigan had answered the age old question of "if a 7 meter high horse could take a dump - how much poop would it be?"

The horse in question is Leonardo Da Vincis "Gran Cavallo", and the site was well protected. The gang managed to "sneak in" (climbed a fence and avoided security cameras and security patrols) with their oversized shovel and poop.
Their artwork: "Paletta Grande" (large scooper/shovel)

Mad props to our rebellious art brothers in US of A.



http://palettagrande.blogspot.com/

Where culture rebels will meet

The following blog will track public art stunts and modern art experiments.

This blog will post and reference events and art I find on the net, but I will also post pictures and stories that people send me.

Feel free to email me at sumsar79@gmail.com if you have anything you want to share.