Posts tagged public art

Can Asia (apart from perhaps Japan) have more cross-disciplinary and cross-establishment spatial practices that engage public participation, imagination and experience like this Croatian-Austrian industrial design collective? Note Numen’s interesting remark in a video interview by Gestalten on their installation designed to manifest elements of “hell” – where at any angle you only see a reflection of your (ugly) self.

Top: Tape Melbourne, Federation Square (2011) Bottom: Net Z33, House for Contemporary Art Z33 (2011)

SZHKB’s largest installation ‘China Builds’ at the Civic Square remaining slightly intact (looks like some cones may have been conveniently taken home) surrounded by commercial towers, including OMA’s nearly-completed cantilevered Shenzhen Stock Exchange, whose inhabitants, I wonder, actually care of its presence.

SZHKB’s largest installation ‘China Builds’ at the Civic Square remaining slightly intact (looks like some cones may have been conveniently taken home) surrounded by commercial towers, including OMA’s nearly-completed cantilevered Shenzhen Stock Exchange, whose inhabitants, I wonder, actually care of its presence.