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Aldo Giannotti & Stefano Giuriati, Carabinieri
- Stazione mobile Munich, Germany,
2006.
Dressed as two real Italian Carabinieri we performed for ten days
in the streets of Munich as if would be part of our jurisdiction
, raising questions like: What are the borders defined by? What
is tolerated within them? Which identities ( national, cultural,
social, religious) should be enclosed and sheltered? Which are the
decisive limits and criteria determining who and what can cross
those edges?
From the artist website:
www.aldogiannotti.com
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Chris Barr, Bureau of Workplace Interruptions,
2006-2007.
BWI harnesses
interruptive technology such as email, snail mail, and the telephone,
as well as in-person visits to create invisible theatre that steals
time from the realm of work.
From the artist website: http://www.chrisbarr.net
Chris Barr, From Here to There Under an
Umbrella, Buffalo,
NY, U.S. 2006.
An umbrella taxi service based on an experience of naive and youthful
romance offers participants
to share conversations on an umbrella-mounted camera.
From the artist website:
http://www.interruptions.org
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Finishing School, Open House, CA, U.S.
2005 to Present.
Borrowing the visual language of real estate agents, Finishing School
action, Open House, is able to facilitate real disclosure, vulnerability,
and interaction of unsuspecting people within a home context that
they previously did not have access to.
From the artist website:
Finishing-School.net
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SpY, MADRID, SPAIN 2000-2006
SpY is an artist from Madrid. His first actions appeared in the
middle eighties. Shortly after, already a national reference as
a graffiti artist, he started to work with other forms of artistic
communication in the street: large posters, modified billboards,
interventions that were experimental in the first nineties.
His work consists in the playful reappropiation of urban elements,
that he replicates or transforms and then installs in the street.
All his production stems from the observation of the urban environmnet,
a sense sharpened by years of experience as a graffiti artist. A
careful attention for the context of each piece and a constructive
and non-invasive attitude unmistakably characterize his actions.
SpY's pieces want to be a break in the automat-like inertia of the
urban dweller. Bits of thought that hide in a corner for whoever
wants to let himself be surprised. Full of both irony and a positive
sense of humor, they appear to inspire a smile, a thought, to help
a conscience a little bit more lucid.
From: www.spy.org.es
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TRANSMISSION.06/Mimesis
tactics of mimetic intervention in everyday life
TRANSMISSION.06/Mimesis is an open call
for the creation of an urban art intervention archive about camouflage and invisibility strategies.
This project intends to investigate the strategies and the dynamics
of camouflage and of likeness, of subtle sabotage and tampering, of détournement: the techniques of fusion and intrusion between artistic language and daily
life and conventional, media and public languages.
In year 2007 the most suitable works of the archive will be moving through different
sites across Europe, where the documentation of the projects will be displayed.
In the meanwhile a forum will be set up for public discussions between artists
and theorists.
Camouflage
1. n. The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from
an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings.
2. v. tr. To conceal by the use of disguise or by protective coloring or garments that blend in with the surrounding environment.
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