playing with street signs

Gutter graffiti

a series of cool street painting... turning the gutter into super cute animals

Wooster Collective

The Wooster Collective is a group who's website is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world.

They also publish comics with selected work of their favourite artists:

Conflux Festival

Conflux is the annual NYC festival for contemporary psychogeography where international artists, technologists, urban adventurers and the public put investigations of everyday city life into practice on the streets.

Here are some examples of the great works that have been shown at this festival:

Have a Seat by Caroline Woolard



At night, Caroline Woolward fixed a dozen seats on street posts so people could take a rest:

I feel that this architectural intervention allows any pedestrian to experience the monotony of everyday life in a new way. Perhaps this small fissure in reality will open doors for the public to re-evaluate the status quo. [...]
Anyone can rest without removing themselves from the reality of urban bustle and going to a picturesque park.


Picture is from WMMNA where you can find also more info.


Waste Carrier by Gertrude Berg

Gertrude Berg made an outfit where she could store her personal trash sorted in different bags and carry it during the festival:
For the duration of one week I will wear this uniform to all occasions, except for sleeping, and any other circumstances that would make it impossible for me to wear it. My interest lies in the experience of the extra weight on my body accumulated by waste material that normally is put out of ones sight as soon as possible. As bags could easily be subjects for suspicion in public places and on public transportation systems in NYC, I am also challenged by the reaction I will receive from the public and the officials.

Picture is from WMMNA where you can find also more info.

Madrid Abierto

An annual event that gives artists the opportunity to place their performances and installations publicly in Madrid.



One of this years installations is by Dier + Noaz, Estado de excepción, a fake military post that alerts people of the fact that their living environment is changing through more and more security systems being set up.

Hidden life in natural objects

In northern cultures like Iceland, natural objects are often the home to hidden people, gnomes, dwarfs, elves, fairies and so on

Picture via chiff

Green River

by Olafur Eliasson



The artist poured non-toxic dye into the rivers of different cities in the world (here it's Chicago) to draw people's attention to the environment they pass everyday.

From an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist:

HUO: So the idea was to make the city visible for its inhabitants, who no longer take any notice of the way it works or what's special about it. What you did was aimed at challenging their perception of their environment as something changeless and reassuring.

OE: Right. I wanted to get a fix on how the river is perceived in the city. Is it something dynamic or static? Something real or just a representation? I wanted to make it present again, get people to notice its movement and turbulence. For a few minutes there it was "hyperreal". In some respects the history of cities is the history of how they're represented and most of the time this is done by accentuating the classical, monumental structures that suggest power. The way we experience public spaces is more to do with the way representation and iconography influence our senses and our habits of seeing. A lot of people see urban space as an external image they have no connection with, not even physically.