hey,


I am becoming increasingly interested in the idea of intervening into routine and the mundane things we do everyday. I want to do this in some quiet way that people might notice or might not.


Im thinking this would work best with public transport...and that i want to leave [something] on buses and trains for people to come across and perhaps respond to.

Im struggling to find many artists relating to this concept but there must be looooaaads.

Anyone got any ideas?

just a couple quotes i found helpful to start thinking about outside the white cube art:

"The time for art is over. The point now is to realise art, to really create on every level of life..." (Situationist International, 1964, p3)

'The site is not simply a geographical location or architectual setting, but a network of social relations, a community, and the artist and his sponsors envision the artwork as an intergral extension of the community rather than an intrusive contribution from elsewhere"
(Miwon Kwon, One Place After Another, 2002, p6)

i think both texts were in our readers from last semester if you want to have a look.

Rona Smith

"Arbitrary and accidental incidents act as a starting point for a series of installations and sculptures that explore themes of process and transformation."

"For High Rise, a typical breeze block stands upright slowly absorbing rainwater collected in a discarded wheelbarrow. A distinct water level is visible on the brick's vertical surface, rising and falling depending on changes in the atmosphere."

This stuff is being exhibited in a gallery; I am quite interested in perhaps documenting the same kind of things but outside the white cube. Why not just leave the objects where one finds them?

ben wilson

i'm posting these on behalf of me and lucy, because we both really really like this guy (feel free to add more chewing gum examples though lucy!!) he works in london and has been doing this for quite a while...no specific place, although a few years ago his plan was to start at the top end of High Street in Barnet and work his way to the centre of london. he does all kinds of paintings on the gum, including animals, flowers, faces, cups of tea, and does quite a few special requests or 'in memory of' pieces. and strawberries :] i like it that its so small and almost unnoticable but reallyreally cool at the same time.

Pat Naldi and Wendy Kirkup

Pat Naldi & Wendy Kirkup, Search, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1993

Dan Graham

Dan Graham, Alteration of a Suburban House, 1978

Guy Debord

Guy Debord, The Naked City, 1957

alexander brodsky

these are some pictures of his Canal Street Subway Project (1996, Canal Street, New York), where he used a length of tunnel of the underground in new york to make this venetian-like boat scene (while the tunnel was undergoing renovation). he made these little boats and silhouette figures out of tin and wood and aluminium and floated them down the disused rails in a pool of water, so people using the underground had this slightly eery-but-atmospheric (slightly nostalgic?) scene to distract them from their everyday regular subway journey.