…Exploring the role of the prankster as artist, activist and social observer and the significance of the prank in society.
The artist as social provocateur and activist incorporates humor, satire, irony, political commentary and/or direct action to provoke critical thinking. Pranks challenge convention and the status quo and expose prejudices and biases.
This piece about Richard Reynolds’ Guerrilla Gardening efforts was produced by Green Lions. It aired as part of the launch line-up for Current TV, an independent cable and satellite TV network that broadcasts in the US, the UK and Ireland. Al Gore is the Chairman of the company which makes Viewer Created Content, or VC², available on DirectTV, Dish, Comcast, AT&T U-Verse and other delivery systems.
Thanks to Jake Haglund of DIY:happy
From the Subvertr Web site:
Watch out Flickr, you’ve got competition. Explore!
Subvertr is a project of Les Liens invisibles, an imaginary art-group from Italy comprised of media artists Clemente Pestelli and Gionatan Quintini. Their artworks are based on the invisible links between infosphere, neural synapsis, and real life.
Thanks to: Art Threat, an online community for the expression and appreciation of political art.
This art prank was submitted by Amsterdam artist Dadara:
Between Christmas and New Year’s Eve of 2006, I built a big pink tank, 8x8x3 metres, with four barrels on a rooftop in the centre of Amsterdam.
Everything was made prefab. I painted all the parts inside the building with a lot of friends during Christmas and then we dragged everything up the roof and assembled it as quickly as possible.
I didn’t tell anyone, but the impact was huge. After it was installed, I said I was going to blow it up with explosives. Continue reading “Love, Peace and Terror”
From the San Francisco art gallery START SOMA Web site:
We are inviting artists from around the world to create political artwork for the third (and final!) installment of our PROPAGANDA art show.
In 2003, the first PROPAGANDA art show opened in San Francisco.
In 2005, PROPAGANDA 2.0 opened in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
In 2007, START SOMA will launch PROPAGANDA III, a political poster art show that will tour the world through 2008.
There will be no curation and absolutely NO censorship of any sort. Expressed political viewpoints, be they left, right, or center, will be displayed side-by-side, both online AND in the real world. We are currently accepting poster submissions from around the world.
PROPAGANDA III Online Gallery is now live – and growing! [on Flickr]
PROPAGANDA III opens in San Francisco on July 4, 2007
Poster Credit: USS America Freedom Cruise by Craig Foster, www.dagnabbit.com
thanks: graphic:Design:basics and Political Art Work
This post was submitted by ArtofthePrank.com reader Mary Johnson:
Big humor engages high culture on a grand scale in the art of sculpture pranking. A very big horse makes for very big poop and very big poop calls for a very big scoop. There is such a scoop, called Paletta Grande, at internationally renowned Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Paletta Grande is currently in use by artist Nina Akamu’s, The American Horse, created in homage to Leonardo da Vinci’s original commission by the Duke of Milan, which, at twenty-four feet high, is the second largest equestrian statue in the world.
Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park presents the never-before-exhibited Paletta Grande (“Big Scoop”, “Large Shovel”) by Francesco Nicola Sansovino, the largest public scoop exhibit in Grand Rapids history. Continue reading “PALETTA GRANDE – sculpture prank”