Tag Archive for the term: public art

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Dis/location: projet d’articulation urbaine 2009
deadline: September 12, 2008
Dis/location: projet d’articulation urbaine. A new chapter
With Dis/location: projet d’articulation urbaine, DARE-DARE established a framework for research and the presentation of contextual and public art in Montréal. The modus operandi is the successive two-to-four-year mooring in sites where rich social, political, historical or urban issues arise.
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I’ve been writing a bit lately about public art. I just came across the work of Paul “Moose” Curtis on Laughing Squid. The British artist does large-scale designs on underpasses and building walls using a process called “reverse graffiti“, where he takes high-pressured water and removes dirt through stencils to make his images. Here’s a [...]

I found this one today on Parc avenue just below St Joseph. It’s pretty grotty, but it’s got plastic clips attaching it to the metal…um..thing, so it’s not just “part of someone’s sweater that they left on the ground” as one of my friends suggested. The first outdoor knitted-something was here.

On my way home from work last Friday, I spotted this knitted sash on a tree. The tag says, “Knitty Gritty” so when I got home I googled the name, but couldn’t find anything that seemed to match, even though I seem to remember hearing about a Montreal group who knit things to put on [...]

In an effort to build up anticipation for the dance and theatre Festival TransAmériques, I have avoided dance for the past few weeks. Last year’s first edition turned out to be a most pleasant surprise, offering the kind of works too seldom seen, those that polarize audiences, that have the courage to leave no one [...]

Here’s a neat video of a wall animation by Italian street artist, Blu. This one was made at the Jonathan Levine gallery in New York in November 2007, but Blu does lots of amazing work on public walls too. The ones I’ve seen are mainly of human-like figures who walk around abandoned spaces, interacting with [...]

This little piece of installation art gave us a laugh on the way home from Manhattan to Williamsburg last night and Tristan snapped a picture:

The tree stump on Bedford ave, swamped in “detritus” at 3am, has been labled like a museum piece:
Paul Richard. Untitled 2007. Stump, Dirt, Detritus and Mixed Media. 10 x 52.5 x [...]