Alias Arts

El Mac Singapore from Viet Nam The World Tour on Vimeo.

“I’ve been re-purposing illegal condo ads from around and turning these into tents to put back out in the urban environment. Some have stayed up fully intact in prominent areas for more than a week now (even after rain and wind storms), and I’ve been continuing to do additional installs.

I’ve created a fake marketing campaign for the TENTs, including hacked condo sandwich boards of which I’ve collected more than twenty to date. It all culminates tomorrow at the closing event in the TENT “Presentation Centre” I put together here in Toronto. “… Sean

Sokak Savaşa Karşı | Streets Against The War from sokak savasakarsi on Vimeo.

The video above was shot on 294 walls in four different Turkish cities.

“The images above are part of a project that I developed at my hometown, related to my research at the University of the State of Rio (UERJ). It consists in several human scale representations of people that could have lived in the place that I painted them. The location I chose, o Morro da Conceição, is a Collin in the downtown of Rio, just beside the great agitation of the day-by-day of the city. However, it’s a very particular area, as it seems more like a little town hidden by the concrete walls than just a part of the center. It’s one of the oldest habitation areas of Rio, and one of the few that kept the city’s ancient structure, with old houses and narrow streets – it had also a slave market and a slave port until the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th it was meeting point for many musicians at the begging of samba era. But weirdly, in spite of all this history the place is not well know for most of the cariocas, probably due to the Brazilian habitude of not giving so much value to its own past. For someone who’s walking by the downtown and enters this area it’s like being transported to a different city layer, knowing such a thing I decided to paint this figures as if I could make a mixture of the day-by-day of the past with the present one. So it’s a project about the remembering and the forgetting in a city, and how the past can be imagined today, or how a place can induce us to image this past. I painted during the afternoon so I also had the chance to develop the idea in interaction with the local habitants, who gave suggestions and their opinions about the paintings, or shared their ideas about anything.”… Vanessa

“Nocturne On A Drainpipe Flute” from Armsrock on Vimeo.

210 drawings reproduced as 560 dia slides.
7 dia slide machines running in automatic loops.
WAS, Copenhagen, DK.
2010

“This is the first in a series about empathy and homelessness. The idea is to draw dreamcatchers and put them up where homeless people sleep and go back at night to photograph them sleeping under it. My goal is in atlanta for the symbol of the dreamcatcher to become synonymous with empathy and gratitude. To see one outside even when no one is sleeping under it is to hopefully become thankful for what you have.

I got to talk to phil in the middle of putting this piece up. Hes been here for a long time and let me know that when the sun goes down thats where i can find him. We discussed the issue of homelessness and why atlanta is spending money on things other than a solution to housing them. I gave him a bottle of rum, canned food , some baked goods, and cigs. He insisted on shaking my hand even though it was covered in wheatpaste.

The next day when i was walking i saw him and he introduced me to his friend, gave me the biggest hug, and told me he loved me. Thats what its about. I could care less on how many views this gets my goal is already accomplished on a personal level. My hopes are to get a show built around a series of these and donate half of what i make to the specific person in the photo.”… Ola Bad

“I thought it might be interesting to play around with the concept of the monument. There is no real building or monument that has been here in Tel Aviv for hundreds of years (as opposed to most places in the world), makes things in tel aviv seem a bit temporary sometimes, so i made this piece, a two dimensional cardboard sculpture in a rundown fountain at the end of rothchild av in Tel Aviv”… READ