American artist Mark Jenkins’s urban (and rural) interventions are street-smart—in the truest sense of the word.
Jenkins creates and sets free a colorful cast of characters by way of clear tape casts: the homeless, kids, vagrants, polar bears, and horses (to name but a few) all take their place in the wild, wild urban space, while interacting with the surrounding buildings and public places that provide the context and set the stage. Positioning them around the world, Jenkins’ sculptures have made their way around the world in cities throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Disturbing, humorous, and enigmatic in equal measures, Mark Jenkins enlists his hyper-realistic sculptures into the service of, for example, Greenpeace, as well as for exhibitions, performances, art galleries, and workshops. We met the Washington, DC-based Jenkins in Berlin, where he was contributing to a dance theatre piece.
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Mark Jenkins: Go Figure!
Published 2014/04/23 art , city , confusion , fun , public space Leave a CommentSchlagwörter: architecture, art, city, public space, streetart, urban art
lately in New York..
Published 2013/11/23 Architektur , city , confusion , fun , nonsense , public space , streeetart Leave a CommentSchlagwörter: architecture, art, fake, fun, irritation, public space, sign, streetart, urban art, urban spaces
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Banksy in NY (meat transport)
Published 2013/10/11 art , city , public space , streeetart 2 CommentsSchlagwörter: art, city, fun, irritation, provocation, public space, streetart, urban art, urban spaces
100 Urban Trends
Published 2013/09/28 art , city 1 CommentSchlagwörter: art, city, particiaption, public space, streetart, urban art, urban spaces
A Glossary of Ideas from the BMW Guggenheim Lab (Berlin)
Klicke, um auf 100_Urban_Trends_1106_3MB.pdf zuzugreifen
http://www.bmwguggenheimlab.org/100urbantrends/#!/new-york-city/3
plus there will be soon an exhibition about it at the Guggenheim in NY (October 11, 2013–January 5, 2014)
CityLeaks: #Impressions #Live Paintings
Published 2013/09/20 Architektur , art , city , fun , media , politics , public space , streeetart Leave a CommentSchlagwörter: art, festival, installation, interacting, interventions, mural, performance, public, street art, urban art, urban space
For the last three weeks more than 30 representatives of the fine, performing and applied arts have turned the City of Cologne into a huge stage and canvas for contemporary urban art. Accessible for everyone the created artworks hopefully affect the political, social and aesthetic awareness of residents and visitors.
From today till sunday there is still a chance to watch Live paintings by TIKA (Lichtstraße 24), Debug Visuals (Hansemannstraße 2), Sten Lex (Hospelstraße 4) and Zezao (Bürgerhaus Stollwerk).
Here are some festival impressions, for further information visit http://cityleaks-festival.com/
10 Jahre Mocmoc
Published 2013/09/16 art , city , confusion , fun , internet , media , music , public space , streeetart Leave a CommentSchlagwörter: advertising, art, education, fake, irritation, politics, provocation, public space, urban art
gerade wieder sehr aktuell:
anlässlich des 10jährigen Bestehen von Mocmoc wird der frühere Streit um Kunst+ Politik, Demokratie, Identität, öffentlicher Raum und Strategien nochmals hervorgeholt.
Ostschweiz am Sonntag 15.9.13; Thurgauer Zeitung 16.9.13; weitere infos zum Mocmoc von Com&Com; Dokfilm über Mocmoc
re-imagine the urban (zURBS)
Published 2013/09/10 art , public space Leave a CommentSchlagwörter: art, public space, streetart, urban art, urban spaces
more: www.zurbs.org
Urban Interventions Manifest
Published 2013/09/04 art , city , streeetart 1 CommentSchlagwörter: architecture, art, public space, urban art, urban spaces
Eine englische Fassung wird Ende November bei PCA Press Paris in der Publikation ’70 Assignments: The Future of the Foundation Course in Art and Design’ erscheinen.
Die Kategorisierungen der Urban Interventions sind inspiriert durch einige der Kapitel in Klanten/Hübner: Urban Interventions.
now: Urbane Künste Ruhr
Published 2013/07/25 art , city , education , public space Leave a CommentSchlagwörter: art, city, public space, urban art, urban spaces
Urbane Künste Ruhr ist die neue Kunstorganisation in der Kulturmetropole Ruhr. Wir nehmen die einzigartige urbane Landschaft des Ruhrgebiets zum Anlass, gemeinsam mit Künstlern, Netzwerken und Kulturinstitutionen nach dem Kern des Urbanen zu suchen. Unter der künstlerischen Leitung von Katja Aßmann entwickelt und realisiertUrbane Künste Ruhr Projekte, die den Begriff „Kunst im öffentlichen Raum“ als tiefgreifende Gestaltung von Stadt neu definieren – immer vor Ort und gemeinsam mit den Menschen, die hier leben. Urbane Künste Ruhr wagt einen neuen Blick auf das Ruhrgebiet, auf Stadt an sich und auf die Möglichkeiten der Kunst. Website
CityLeaks Cologne 2013
Published 2013/07/25 art , public space , streeetart Leave a CommentSchlagwörter: art, public space, urban art, urban spaces
CULTURAL HACKING 
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