Hermann Josef Hack submits video of his latest World Climate Refugee Camp in Dresden, Germany, installed in May 2009:
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Political Art and Activism at La Peà ±a
La Peà ±a”s Political Art Series
presents:
Political Art & Activism
Sunday May 31, 2009
at La Peà ±a Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA, 94703
510-849-2568
FREE (donations accepted & encouraged)
3:30pm artist reception 4:30-6:30pm roundtable
Featuring noted Bay Area graphic artists Lincoln Cushing, Favianna Rodriguez, & Susie Lundy. Exhibition runs May 4-31.
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World Climate Refugee Camp Leipzig
Submitted by Hermann Josef Hack:
Street Art Intervention
World Climate Refugee Camp Leipzig
Saturday, May 16, 2009 – Markt Leipzig, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
On Saturday, 16 May, the German artist Hermann Josef Hack, founder of the Global Brainstorming Project, will set up a climate refugee camp with more than 500 miniature tents in front of the town hall of Leipzig. This intervention, presented with the support of the GRASSI Museum fuer Voelkerkunde zu Leipzig, wants to attract public attention to the plight of millions of people already suffering from climate change impacts. Since 1991, Hack has worked on the social effects of global change, which he considers to be the most challenging tasks for our time.
His last camp was set up in front of the Brandenburg Gate and on Alexanderplatz Berlin as part of the transmediale09 exhibition. The next camp will be placed in front of the Japanisches Palais Dresden on May 28 and in the court of the Residenzschloss Dresden on May 29, presented by the Dresden State Art Collections.
You are welcome to participate.
Rome’s Talking Statues to be Silenced?
Protesting a Bit Too Much in Rome?
by W.J. Elvin III
May 12, 2009
A tidy-up campaign in Rome intends to halt the centuries-old tradition of posting satirical protest notes on six “talking statues” around the city. Begun when rulers restricted public speech, the tradition continues today with nasty notes that go up under cover of night. The notes often ridicule the antics of celebrity Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Other targets include dignitaries of the Church and societal elite.
The notes will be removed and the statues fenced off. While the project might seem, to anyone with a lick of sense, doomed to fail, authorities have concocted a brilliant tactic to counter any recurrence of the protests. They plan a web site where people can express their feelings freely. Hey, that”s gonna work.
It will probably work as well as efforts to stop the posting of love notes on the wall below the balcony at Shakespearian heroine Juliet”s house in Verona. Despite a ban put in force five years ago, the love notes are still posted, stuck to the wall with bubble gum. What next? They’ll probably tell people to stop rubbing the right breast of Juliet”s statue. That’s a popular custom thought to bring luck in love.
photo: discovery.mlogic.mobi
New York Street Advertising Takeover
From ARTiFACT Marketing, April 26, 2009:
Something monumental happened this weekend in NYC. A group of people demanded their public space back and they did it with remarkable artistic success. Pissed off and turned off by the force fed obtrusive nature of advertisements in the neighborhood, a group organized by Jordan Seiler took over 120 billboards. The program aptly named “New York Street Advertising Takeover” was 4 months of coordination. All the billboards were white washed by dozens of volunteers wearing orange vests on Saturday the 25th.
Followed by 40-80 artists (who will be named later…hard to tell who all was involved at this point) who transformed the once ad space into pieces of extraordinary art.
