This series by artist Jenny Holzer is a classic example of urban intervention using projections. Her textual projections have a somber and introspective tone that give a commentary on both society and the self.
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I am not sure if this is an example of urban intervention, but I found the piece incredibly interesting and wanted to share it since it is a large-scale work that responds and alters an environment. This installation is built on one of the highest portions of Europe’s tallest mountain in the French alps. Visitors can step out into the glass cube to interact with and view the mountain range in a way that is completely foreign to man. (It also makes my knees wobbly just thinking about it.)
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For ten years, Leonard Tishkov has been carrying this electric crescent moon around the world. When documenting the work he quotes a poem by Li Bai that says:
Humans can never pluck the moon,
But she always goes with our step.
His goal is to make the moon something accessible, to give humans the access that they lack when it is in the sky.
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Artist Mark Jenkins specializes in public street sculpture, and his work hovers somewhere between art and litter with a touch of playful satire. For this piece he created several “homeless” polar bears to be placed in various locations in Washington, DC. protesting the threats presented to their species due to climate change and habitat destruction.
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Faith47 is a street artist based in Cape Town, South Africa, whose realistic paintings are dominated by religious themes, animal motifs, and compassion for the poor. In addition to her murals on walls in cities around the world she also paints on found objects and canvas.
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Olek is a New York based artist who created the Crocheted Excavators for the 2012 Katowice Street Art Festival in Poland. She covered the construction equipment with pre-crocheted pieces and later had performers covered in crocheted material on stilts interacting with the piece. The last part of the video which shows the performers is especially interesting as their crocheted forms merge with the excavator and bring it to life.
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This project, titled “The Swimming Cities of Serenissima” is by female urban artist Swoon. Three floating vessels constructed from found objects and junk were navigated from Slovenia to Venice where the crews staged multimedia performances. These miniature floating cities entered Venice, a city steeped in history and intrigue, as if coming from another world.
The Urban Projection collective The MAW ask people “What would you die for?” and participants choose the person place or idea that is true for them and make a live animation with their hands.
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