MOMO SHOW PALACE

Re+Public published two new videos demonstrating recent work with their Augmented Reality app at the Wynwood Walls in Miami, and the Bowery/Houston wall in NY.

What they’re doing here hints at wild possibilities.  I was able to work with them in Miami, and wish we had months not weeks to try everything out and play with it. Thinking about how this works is like witnessing a new “internet” open up where nothing existed.  The motivation for Re+Public is to crash this emerging understanding of a new public space with art and creative open ended purposes, before commercial and legal interests clog the discourse.  You can read more from Public Ad Campaign, one of two collaborators behind Re+Public, the other being The Heavy Projects.

There’s five functioning murals in the Wynwood compound, mine is inside their Nicelook Gallery.

See their second video at Bowery Houston here.

Texts & pictures by ELTONO & MOMO
Layout & print : Lucile BATAILLE
available here
Documenting Exercises No.1 & 2: Improbables
& Peinture Au Cordeau Traceur.

The first part of a collaboration with Eltono in Besançon, France.

Two artists install bits of found wood with a hand saw and rubber mallet, into 52 cellar door and window spaces particular to Besançon, France. Using only tension to hold these in place, they demonstrate a variety of arrangement possibilities across a range of spaces in the city. The results may go unnoticed (as artwork) until enough are recognized and associated as such.

We were inspired largely by the types of urban modifications, barriers, and repairs on buildings that demonstrate odd solutions, curious physics, or appear to be total mysteries.  So we titled this “Improbables”, French for Improbables.

Thanks to Sean Mahan of L7 for assisting, the Walls team for all their support, the Goldman family and extended family for making this possible. I had a very nice time.  Meeting enormous artists that have been inspirational for a long while, in a swimming pool/South Beach atmosphere, was cool too.

455 NW 25th St. between 3rd and 5th, in Wynwood, Miami.

Bien Urbain in Besançon, France hosted Eltono and I this past September for another experimental collaboration.  We had several ideas, but time for just two of these. This is the second one.

Thanks to Kyle, Pawnworks, and The Alley.
2632 W Fletcher St
Avondale, Chicago

We pushed this RV out of the way with a scissor lift. Haha

I recently spent 10 incredible days with legendary humans Kelly and Sean, surfing, ghost-riding bikes, watching Sean free dive a 70 foot natural spring, and hearing Kelly lecture on education and gardening. Before I left, we dropped this mural on the front of their home.

You may remember Sean from such soundtracks as “Travelouge” (2010) and recall his fine art.