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