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Collapsible Shelter

Iconic product that aids survival and provides shelter and warmth. This simple and inexpensive construction is part of the »Collapsible Shelter« series constructed by Brooklyn-based artist Chat Travieso. His one-person structures are foldable and allow for easy set-up anywhere in the urban jungle.

Collapsible Shelter, No. 2, wood, masonite, plastic, duct tape 96" x 72" x 72"

Collapsible Shelter, No. 2, wood, masonite, plastic, duct tape
96″ x 72″ x 72″

Collapsible Shelter, No. 2

(via) All images © Chat Travieso.

Don’t pay, play!

Florian Rivière describes himself not without reason as a »urban hacker«. His interventions are exclusively made by objects he found in the street. Reprogramming the city implies for him playing with the waste material lying around unattended, building and staging cheeky interventions that subvert the norm with bursts of spontaneity and humor.

Caddies, tape, parking, Strasbourg, 2011

Don’t pay, play!, caddies, tape, parking, Strasbourg, 2011

Seesaw wood + bycicle rack (Berlin - April 2012)

Seesaw, wood + bycicle rack, Berlin, 2012

ttrape pigeon baguette de pain + cagette (Strasbourg - mars 2012)

Attrape Pigeon, baguette de pain + cagette
(Strasbourg – mars 2012)

»Candy Kicker«, Workshop: hack the city into a soccer field - productor : Artitude Gallery (Berlin/Kreuzberg - june 2012)

Candy Kicker, Workshop: hack the city into a soccer field – productor : Artitude Gallery, Berlin/Kreuzberg, 2012

Your Opinion Means Nothing

The ideas are simple, yet ingenious! Brad Downey is a Readymade maniac and the king of urban interventions, light and playful and mostly with a dash of fun and irony. You can spend hours and days looking at the fine details that make him so special. And yes his homepage has recently been updated. Find some good words written by Jennifer Thatcher and watch out for his book called »Spontaneous Sculptures« released in September 2011.

Every Path Has It’s Puddle, 2012, Hamburg, Germany, Commissioned by Dockville Kunst Camp

»Every Path Has It’s Puddle«, 2012, Hamburg, Germany, Commissioned by Dockville Kunst Camp

»Tire Stack«, 2011, KØS, Denmark.

»Tire Stack«, 2011, KØS, Denmark.

»Castles Beneath Cities«, 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands

»Castles Beneath Cities«, 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Domesticated Waterfall, 2012, Grottaglie, Italy

»Domesticated Waterfall«, 2012, Grottaglie, Italy.

»The Pyramid«, 2012, Warsaw, Poland.

»The Pyramid«, 2012, Warsaw, Poland.

All images © Brad Downey

Portable River

Madrid-based art collective Luzinterruptus has once again taken to the streets, this time in Caracas, Venezuela, to create an installation called Portable River. Choosing water is one of their recurring themes. To achieve their urban river, they created their own flow of crystal clear water packaged in 2.000 transparent bags, inside of which, in addition to light, they included samples of the life that dwells in it. Each bag was a small, ephemeral aquarium, a container of fish and plants, which, thanks to the light acquired an unsuspected value. Now, looking at the photos of this installation and seeing the water inside the bags, as if it were sacks of money, you cannot stop thinking about how some governments traffic in this basic need of human life, offering it to the highest bidder.

Portable River by Luzinterruptus’

Portable River by Luzinterruptus

Portable River by Luzinterruptus

Portable River by Luzinterruptus

Portable River by Luzinterruptus

All images © Gustavo Sanabria

Vogelfütterung

About birds and bird-feeding: »Vogelfütterung«, urban intervention by Heiko Von.

Vogelfütterung
»Vogelfütterung«, Holz, Stacheldraht, Vogelfutter, Honig, Berlin 2012

Vogelfütterung
»Vogelfütterung«

Abenteuerspielplatz
»Abenteuerspielplatz«, Spielgeräte, Zaunfelder, Sand, Duisburg 2011

Out of Place

In Robert Rickhoffs world cities are filled with confusion. The Hamburg-based artist invades public space with wit and a great sense of humour. There is also a certain kind of fatality about the way, Rickhoff translates urbanity. Urban exploration done on the computer. Very nice!

The Facadeprinter

This great invention will certainly never change the world, but will find its place in the world of machines: »The Facadeprinter is a simple software controlled robot. It consists of a turn table with two axes and an air-pressure print head. The printer shoots the artwork from a distance dot by dot onto the chosen area. Using this method, inaccessible and uneven surfaces can be used for large scale prints. Artworks can be printed on buildings without costly scaffolding. The Facadeprinter is also a communication-tool. Even the application of the artwork is part of the message; straight and direct. A work of art is converted to a vector or pixel file and shot dot by dot onto the facade. The viewer watches the emerging artwork like the drawing of a magic pen.«