Urban Interventions : Personal Projects in Public Places
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This is the first book to document the new movement as well as its interplay with art, architecture, performance, installation, and activism. Evolving from graffiti and street art, the next quantum leap in artistic work is now hitting public spaces. Using any and all of the components that make up urban and rural landscapes, these mostly spatial interventions bring art to the masses. Evolving from graffiti and street art, urban interventions are the next generation of artwork to hit public space. Modified traffic signs, swings at bus stops, and images created out of sand or snow challenge us to rediscover our environment and interact with it in new ways. They turn the street into a studio, laboratory, club, and gallery. With a rich visual selection of projects and methods, Urban Interventions documents this new artistic approach to urban art that is currently making a profound mark on our contemporary visual language. The work is an intelligent and critical commentary on the planning, use, and commercialization of public space. Propagators of urban intervention surprise and provoke with work in cities including New York and London, but also in countries such as China, Columbia, and Turkey. The book shows the growing connections and interplay of this scene with art, architecture, performance, and installation. Urban Interventions is the first book to document these very current, personal art projects in a comprehensive way. Everywhere the work appears it turns public spaces into individual experiences.