The document discusses urban intervention and tactical media art. It provides examples of artists who use public spaces and media to raise awareness of social and political issues. These include the Red Ball Project, which placed giant red balls in cities, and The Yes Men, who create fake news stories to draw attention to important topics. The document also discusses influential groups like the Situationists who created experimental art experiences in public settings and the rise of tactical media in the 1990s which allowed users to more easily spread messages through mainstream outlets.

1. Urban Intervention and Tactical Media
Annette Au, Sid Choudhary, Arabii So, and Samuel Cheung

2. Urban Intervention
● Stimulate community involvement so as to raise awareness of social issues
● Create more possibilities and challenges to rediscover the environment
● Connections with cities i.e. responses to social community, built environment and
public space

3. Urban Intervention
Red Ball Project by Kurt Perschke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_XTwWhFklo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Ffr1U7KMY

4. Urban Intervention
Rover, The Prisoner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Ffr1U7KMY

5. Urban Intervention
Mapping The Terrain: New Genre Public Art by Suzanne Lacy

6. Urban Intervention
...visual art that uses both traditional and nontraditional media to communicate
and interact with a broad and diversified audience about issues directly relevant
to their lives.
Suzanne Lacy

7. Suzanne Lacy
The Roof is on Fire, 1993-1994

8. Influential Practices
Situationist International:
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord

9. Situationist International
What would be the principle characteristics of the new culture and how would it compare with ancient art?
● Against the spectacle, the realised situationist culture introduces total participation.
● Against preserved art, it is the organisation of the directly lived moment.
● Against particularised art, it will be a global practice with a bearing, each moment, on all the usable elements. Naturally this
would tend to collective production which would be without doubt anonymous (at least to the extent where the works are no
longer stocked as commodities, this culture will not be dominated by the need to leave traces.) The minimum proposals of
these experiences will be a revolution in behaviour and a dynamic unitary urbanism capable of extension to the entire planet,
and of being further extensible to all habitable planets.
● Against unilateral art, situationist culture will be an art of dialogue, an art of interaction. Today artists - with all culture
visible - have become entirely separated from society, just as they are separated from each other by competition. But faced
with this impasse of capitalism, art has remained essentially unilateral in response. This enclosed era of primitivism must be
superseded by complete communication.
At a higher stage, everyone will become an artist, i.e., inseparably a producer-consumer of total culture creation, which will help
the rapid dissolution of the linear criteria of novelty. Everyone will be a situationist so to speak, with a multidimensional inflation of
tendencies, experiences, or radically different "schools" - not successively, but simultaneously.

10. Influential Practices
Happening
The yard by Allan Kaprow

11. Influential Practices
Fluxus
Philip Corner’s Piano
performance

12. Fluxus
Fluxus is not: a movement, a moment in history, an organisation. Fluxus is:
an idea, a kind of work, a tendency, a way of life, a changing set of people
who do Fluxworks.
Dick Higgies

13. Daniel Buren

14. Daniel Buren, Peinture-Sculpture, 1971

15. Tactical Media
● Disseminated in 90s by David Garcia and
Geert Lovink
● Raise, share, and discuss political, cultural,
and social issues within the society and
world
● Tactical Media artists -> employ the
mainstream media to help spread their
works and messages to a larger audience
● Concept of “do-it-yourself” (Brunet,1)
means how users were able to turn into
fabricators
● Works -> not about being perfect,
commercial, and advanced in technology

16. The Yes Men

17. The Yes Men, The Yes Men Fix The World, 2009

18. Elmgreen and Dragset
Michael Elmgreen
Born 1961, Copenhagen, Denmark
Lives in London, works in Berlin
Ingar Dragset
Born 1969, Norway
Lives & works in Berlin
They have been working as artist duo since 1995
One of the ideas they engage with- What constitutes art and artistic venue?

19. Contribution of civilizations through the ages
What monument will our age leave behind for future generations?

20. Elmgreen and Dragset, Prada Marfa, 2005
Marfa, Texas, US

21. Monica Bonvicini
Born 1965, Venice, Italy
Lives & works in Berlin, Germany
Education- California Institute of the Arts

22. A comment on surveillance
Michel Foucault’s
idea of surveillance
as a substitue for
religion.

23. Monica Bonvicini, Don’t miss a sec, 2003
Contemporary take on Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain”?

24. Vik Muniz
Photography
Born 1961, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Lives & works in New York City

25. Jardim Gramacho, Brazil- world’s largest garbage dump

26. Vik Muniz, Pictures of Garbage

27. Wasteland by Lucy Walker
Nomination- Best documentary Feature in 83rd Academy Awards
http://www.wastelandmovie.com

28. JR
● Photograffeur

29. JR - Women are Heroes
Women Are Heroes, 2008

30. JR - Face to Face
Face to Face

31. JR - Inside Out, Hong Kong
Inside Out, Hong Kong 2012

32. Ai Wei Wei
● Humorous but irony

33. Ai Wei Wei – 騰飛不忘擋中央

34. Ai Wei Wei – Sunflower Seeds

35. Umbrella Movement
「百家遮」The Canopy

36. Kacey Wong
Padding Home, 2009

37. Kacey Wong
Padding Home, 2009

38. Kacey Wong
The Cultural Bureau, 2012

39. Kacey Wong
The Cultural Bureau, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxsDavV9dwI

40. Kacey Wong

41. Banksy
Show me the Monet, 2005

42. Banksy
Slave Labour, 2012