Within the context of Maxxi museum’s The Independent project, Urban Gorillas and co. are presenting Urban Spectacle, a series of public interventions exploring basic human activities in urban spaces, starting out from the relationship that is established between observer, player and spatial context and attempting to spark a new dialogue between them. The project is designed to encourage …
Off the Studio Project 15 November 2016 in old town Nicosia, as part of the Urban Spectacle Series – read here In a world where one can no longer distinguish fiction from reality, Arthropod in collaboration with Urban Gorillas propose an installation performance situated in the in-between state of these two notions. Artistic group, Arthropod collective, craft …
The Baffle Zone Project January 11th 2017 as part of the Urban Spectacle Series – read here Nicosia: a divided capital of Europe, a vibrant platform for local and international discussion and an urban case study with a visual attentiveness. Urban Gorillas in collaboration with local street artist, Twenty Three, brought to life a project displayed …
“People tend to sit the most where there are places to sit,” concluded William H. Whyte (1988:110) in his book City: Rediscovering the Center. As obvious as this may seem, even useless, it is at the same time a powerful fact that has been tested in many settings – from Manhattan to Oslo via Copenhagen; …
ΦουσκόPolis Nicosia took place at the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and attracted well over a thousand local residents and visitors alike to visit the site in just one day. ΦουσκόPolis even brought people to the site who had never visited it before. The programme of events in Nicosia was made up of a diverse range of actions from …
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