Leopold Kessler's "guerilla style public interventions were meant to offset our preconceived norms of social behavior. His mischevious public indiscretions border on the illegal yet they pass almost unnoticed only to become once again visible and thought provoking..."
- chelseaartgalleries.com
In one project Kessler says "I've also started to repair neglected public items. I'm cutting a bush which grows over a street sign each year, so you can read the information."
-Street Renegades, Francesca Gavin 2007
An anonymous female artist called Questionmarc has been causing a bit of a stir in Nottingham over the last couple of weeks in an attempt to highlight some ignored issues in the city. Link
The German artist Hermann Josef Hack set out early on January 26th, to install his latest ‘Climate Refugee Camp’ in Berlin. The art installation features a series of small cardboard tent structures that are designed to look like a refugee camp. Hack installed around 400 of the miniature tents in front of the German capital’s Brandenburger gate. Hack then dismantled the tents and moved them to a new location the next day. His mission is to make the public aware of people who have become refugees because of climate. This is the latest iteration of hack’s two year old project. Hack also designed a ‘Climate Refugee Guide Berlin’, a guidebook for climate refugees.
http://www.hermann-josef-hack.de
The Heidelberg Project is another Detroit based collaborative effort. It began with Tyree Guyton and his grandfather in 1988. It has similar intent to Object Orange. It's become one of the leading tourist destinations in Detroit although the activity is still considered to be illegal.
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