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This Land Is Your Land — CCA Glasgow
This Land is Your Land is an annual two-week exhibition project exploring the connections between nature and art. Saturday 10 July — Saturday 24 July 2010 11:00am — 6:00pm: FREE Venue: CCA 1 / CCA 2 / CCA 3 This Land Is Your Land — Art,Film,Music,Performance Event — CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts — Glasgow — United Kingdom. […]
Posted on 9 July 2010 by Satellite | No Comments.Tags: discursive, environment
SUPERFLEX — Power Toilets
SUPERFLEX have created public toilets at the Park van Luna (Heerhugowaard, Netherlands) based on phởtos taken secretly by an ex-UN staffer, identical in every detail to that of the sanitary facilities at one of the most secure buildings in the world, the United Nations in New York. Bathers and canoeists at the park are free […]
Posted on 9 July 2010 by Satellite | No Comments.Tags: installation
Yinka Shonibare — Fourth Plinth commission
New commission for the Fourth Plinth, Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle, by leading Anglo-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare unveiled on the morning of Monday 24 May 2010, Trafalgar Square, London. Commissioned by the Mayor of London and supported by Arts Council England with sponsorship from Guaranty Trust Bank of Nigeria, Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle is a scale replica […]
Posted on 9 July 2010 by Satellite | No Comments.Tags: installation
Wonders of Weston & invitation to participate
Bristol-based public art commissioners Field Art Projects and Situations have been appointed to produce new public artworks for the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset. Launching in September 2010, Wonders of Weston will feature artworks by six internationally acclaimed contemporary artists: Ruth Claxton, Tim Etchells, Lara Favaretto, Tania Kovats in association with Grant Associates, […]
Posted on 9 July 2010 by Satellite | No Comments.Tags: cultural program, participation, Wonders of Weston
beam — Cybercity Wakefield
Beam and DLA Architecture are running a stall at the Wakefield Farmers Market on Saturday 10th July between 9am-4pm, as part of They will be exhibiting ideas about what the future might hold for cities and asking for your thoughts about what the Wakefield of the future might be like. We’ll be asking for your thoughts on […]
Posted on 9 July 2010 by Satellite | No Comments.Tags: community, consultation, participation
Public Art Network: 2010 Public Art Network Year in Review
Americans for the Arts’ Public Art Network held their Year in Review on June 24th, celebrating excellence in public art projects across the US and Canada. The 2010 iteration curated this time around by Helen Lessick and Fred Wilson. Public Art Network: 2010 Public Art Network Year in Review Full list of the 40 projects […]
Posted on 9 July 2010 by Satellite | No Comments.Tags: awards
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer — Solar Equation
“Solar Equation” is a large-scale public art installation that consists of a faithful simulation of the Sun, 100 million times smaller than the real thing. Commissioned by the Light in Winter Festival in Melbourne, the piece features the world’s largest spherical balloon, custom-manufactured for the project, which is tethered over Federation Square and animated using five projectors. […]
Posted on 24 June 2010 by Satellite | No Comments.Tags: installation
One Day Sculpture symposium
ONE DAY SCULPTURE: An International Symposium on Art, Place and Time Convened by Litmus Research Initiative, School of Fine Arts, Massey University, Wellington New Zealand in conjunction with the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa 26 to 28 March 2009, Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. Speakers to include: Professor Jane Rendell, Jan Verwoert, Mick Wilson, […]
Posted on 1 April 2010 by Satellite | No Comments.Tags: critical theory, cultural program, One Day Sculpture
Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani
Images of their work A Space Formerly Known as a Museum at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 2007. from their website: The phởtographs taken in March 2007 in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam reveal more than a century of museum history, from the bourgeois palace of artifacts to the modernist white cube, to the capitalised Cultural Institute. On […]
Posted on 23 January 2009 by Satellite | No Comments.Tags: installation, institutional critique, intervention
Heather and Ivan Morison
Following on from their 2006 Situations commission I lost her Fantasy Island. Life has not been the same, Heather and Ivan Morison present another large scale ‘frozen moment’ street intervention, this time as part of the ongoing One Day Sculpture project. The work Journée des barricades was commissioned by Litmus, and was presented in central Wellington […]
Posted on 22 January 2009 by Satellite | No Comments.Tags: cultural program, installation, intervention, One Day Sculpture, temporary project
