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Consequences of a Gesture
*Consequences of a Gesture* (1993) by Daniel J. Martinez, with VinZula Kara, was a participatory parade through Chicago commemorating immigrant labor history. It combined performance, monument, and community engagement, turning streets into a living, historical stage.
Hygiene of Art: The City Invaded by Blank Space
The City Invaded by Blank Space (1973) is a participatory artwork presented at the 12th São Paulo Biennial during Brazil’s military dictatorship. Through blank signs, media interventions, and public actions, it created spaces for free expression, challenged censorship and state control, and culminated in the artist’s arrest, marking a powerful act of political resistance.
Sight Unseen: An Un-camouflaging for Guildwood
Collaborative project where youth created ghillie suits to explore visibility, belonging, and connections to nature, culminating in a site-specific “un-camouflaging” performance in Guildwood Park with support from the Ontario Arts Council.
WalkSpace: Beirut-Venice
WalkSpace: Beirut-Venice is a participatory artwork connecting simultaneous dérives in Beirut and Venice. Groups in each city guide each other in real time via video, maps, and tweets, creating an evolving relational space shaped by exploration, interaction, and chance.
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Fred Forest, Hygiene of Art: The City Invaded by Blank Space (1973)
This was a performance walking by Fred Forest in the streets of São Paulo, Brazil under the military dictatorship. The artist hired 15 professional sandwich board men to walk with him carrying blank signs. “The goal of this series of provocative actions undertaken under the cover of art was to create symbolic/utopian spaces of popular […]
In which I go for a walk
In the second half of 2022, I responded to a call for an artist residency in the far north of Sweden. My proposal, a kind of sound walk, or audio-play, with individual components of the story triggered by the listener walking through geofenced areas in an outside space, perhaps a small forest, was to be …
