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Tilted Arc
In 1981, Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc was installed in Federal Plaza, NYC, to engage pedestrians by disrupting the space. Opposed by workers who claimed it obstructed movement, the sculpture was removed in 1989. The controversy led to policy changes and the Visual Artists Rights Act.
Rock up to London: discovering stones and fossils from around the world on an urban geology tour | London holidays | The Guardian
The city’s architecture travels through time and continents, incorporating everything from slabs of the Italian Alps to meteorites that hit southern Africa 2bn years ago Source: Rock up to London: discovering stones and fossils from around the world on an urban geology tour | London holidays | The Guardian
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Tilted Arc
In 1981, Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc was installed in Federal Plaza, NYC, to engage pedestrians by disrupting the space. Opposed by workers who claimed it obstructed movement, the sculpture was removed in 1989. The controversy led to policy changes and the Visual Artists Rights Act.
Rock up to London: discovering stones and fossils from around the world on an urban geology tour | London holidays | The Guardian
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In 1998, Ma Liuming attained even bigger international acclaim for his Fen-Ma Liuming Walks the Great Wall performance. In it, Ma nonchalantly walks and climbs the Great Wall of China, stark-naked. China’s most famous landmark, the Great Wall symbolises a rigid social structure and social conventions, such as the class system. However, regardless of its immense historical significance, Ma, the performance artist, chose to use that tall and lengthy sacred site as a stage for his artistic expression.
In our eyes (Hakgojae Gallery), from the encounter between a naked transgender artist and the symbol of China, the Great wall, we see a strong, artistic desire for the acceleration of China’s reform and opening up. It can be also interpreted as a criticism towards a society intolerant of diversity and different ideologies. Recordings and photographs from the performance became widely known to the international art world and the performance was introduced at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999 under the direction of Harald Szeemann.
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As stated in the Hakgojae Gallery press release.
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