JR has created the world’s largest participatory art project. When the artist first started the project, it was considered illegal public art, but as the Paris City Hall covered its building with his photos, it became “official”. The public is not only the audience but also the subject of the piece.
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Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann’s collective “L/B” is focused on architectural interventions that reconsider notions of perspective, function, and beauty. “Beautiful Steps #2” is a part of their “Beautiful Steps” series in which they build staircases in non-traditional locations. In this example, they have created a quasi-functional staircase on a skyscraper, utilizing the forced perspective of the building’s architecture to enhance their own work.
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Felice Varini is a Paris-based artist who uses architectural space, in all its forms, as his canvas. The possibility of multiple vantage points in a single space is an influential factor in his work. In “Cercle et suite d’eclats,” Varini painted perfect circles on over 70 houses in Vercorin, Switzerland that can only be viewed as complete circles from one vantage point.
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“I Wish This Was” is a project conducted by Taiwanese-American artist Candy Chang to invite public discourse into urban planning, especially concerning abandoned or unoccupied spaces. Stickers reading “I WISH THIS WAS” are posted onto the facade of buildings or fences with blank space for passersby to write in their own desires for the use of the space.
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Banksy is a publicly popular and well-known street artists. For this performance/installation, the artist made a painting that looks like that belongs to an art museum and installed it a the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Read more.
“Spiders” is a project that melds building prostheses with unoccupied urban lots, presenting a different functional use for the same tools used to construct permanent urban structures.
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Adrian Kondratowicz was able to create an ultimate collaborative public art by simply distributing pink polka dot trash bags to his Harlem neighborhood. Read more.
The Motion Project was a collaboration between a lot of clever creative people working together to create a machine that turns motion into music. The client for the project, Frucor (makers of V energy drink), together with their agency Colenso BBDO, kitted-out a warehouse space for this project to grow in and gathered together a group of talented people from a number of creative fields. More here
In this public installation, Gonzalez-Torres uses the billboard format to provoke a public dialogue about the AIDS epidemic. The billboard features a photograph of an empty bed. Although the work has enormous personal significance (it was prompted by the death of Gonzalez-Torres’ longtime partner), it is difficult to see how a public unfamiliar with the artist could connect it to AIDS.
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