Millegomme
The Millegomme network does incredible works with car tires.
“Our filosophy is to integrate into a setting by involving locals and play with the problems altogether”
Public intimacy
In Asia these interventions probably wouldn’t work, you can see so many private preparations in the streets and on the subway. In Europe they stand out. From the ‘Public intimacy’ series by Mentalgassi. Also check their contributions to getxophoto 11. ‘El sireno’ from the show is featured below. Haha! Compare with the ‘autonomous mechanisms’ by Eltono and Momo. PLAF!
PLAF – Hallet’s Cove from MOMO on Vimeo.
More anarchitecture
‘House’ (1993 – 1994) by Rachel Whiteread. Check the photos from: John Davies. More info below (1:48).
Patrick Cornillet
Patrick Cornillet’s work is about those non-places to which graffiti writers, skateboarders and other urban species are drawn.
Maps & wrecks
Japan after the terrible earthquake and tsunami would be a perfect terrain for Nigel Peake’s wreck studies and psychological maps. Tough his work is joyful in essence: On his maps the surroundings are re-ordered by their personal and imagined meaning. In his drawings of wrecked houses he is attracted by their sculptural qualities when the elements of the structure are re-ordered. Phantasy beats reality.
For more radical cartography you must see Harold Fisk´s mapping of the mississippi river.
Markus Hofer
Like Erwin Wurm, Markus Hofer is from Austria. I like his public interventions the most.
Garry Trinh
From the ‘Our Spot’ series (2008).
“These photographs were captured using an old light leaking camera and expired photographic film. The defects reflect the raw character of the skaters and the skateparks that once coexisted in these landscapes. Most of these skateparks existed between the late 80s and 90s. After years of wear and tear these skateparks were eventually torn down and replaced by more modern style skateparks.”
Compare to Eric Tabuchi’s ‘Countrysights’ series.