Street installation
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Street installations are a growing trend within the "street art" movement. Whereas conventional street art/graffiti is done on surfaces/walls "street installations" use 3-D objects/space to interface with the urban environment . Like graffiti, it is non-permission based and once the object/sculpture is installed it is left there by the artist.
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[edit] Techniques
"Hitchhikers" are one popular form of street installation happening predominantly in NYC where paintings on wood are installed on to street signs using metals bolts. Other artists such as Leon Reid and Brad Downey use objects removed from the urban environment that are then sculpted through changing/reshaping and afterwards these sculptures are reinserted back into the city. Installations such as Banksy's "Boadicea" utilize art intervention[1] while the artist Truth uses painted blocks and attaches them to walls to integrate into the existing building's architecture. [2]
"Ghost bikes" are memorial street installations for bicyclists killed by automobiles. The bicycles are painted white and locked to street signs.[3]
A roundabout dog is a homemade street installation placed in roundabouts, a phenomen that occurred all over Sweden in 2006.
For more examples see Wooster Collective's sub-category for street installations
[edit] Artists
Artists who are exploring or who have explored this field include:
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[edit] External links
- Wooster Collective's sub-category for street installations [4]
- Darius Jones (Leon Reid) on Australlian Public Radio [5]
- Mark Jenkins Interview with The Morning News [6]
- Banksy "Artist's cold call cuts off phone" (BBC) [7]
- Skewville on CurrentTV [8]
- Cristopher Cichocki (Underground Service Alert) [9]
- Skewville Home Page [10]
