“Before anything else was chaos: a space that contained everything which would have composed the universe. Consequently, chaos is the start of all things. Chaos is then the main creator.” Hesiod, Theogonie 28 November – 06 December 2015 | Apothikes 79, Ayiou Lazarou 81-83, Larnaca The Exhibition “Order and Disorder in Chaos” will offer a …
This report has been undertaken by Urban Gorillas as part of the Green Urban Lab (GUL) project that was made possible with funding from the EEA Grants/Norway Grants. It presents the research and urban interventions that have been conducted from April 2014 to October 2015. The overarching aim of the GUL project was to investigate …
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Urban Gorillas will be presenting a paper together with Anna Merry from Frederick University at the upcoming Tenth International Conference on the Arts in Society at Imperial College London, 22-24 July 2015. This year the Conference focuses on ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Networked Society’. The paper entitled ‘Art and Play: Promoting social …
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Cyprus Dossier Issue 08 “Good, Bad and Ugly: Public Benches in the Old Walled City of Nicosia” by Rene Carraz and Veronika Antoniou – View PDF here: Good Bad and Ugly
“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; …
Urban Gorillas joined the global Pecha Kucha movement on Sunday 24 May 2015 at 19:00 along with seven other local NGOs and social innovators to present their ideas in this charming 20×20 format. We shared our thoughts on public space – what is it, whose is it, and what can we do with it! All …
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Urban Gorillas’ DNA inflatable structure made in collaboration with Plastique Fantastique and many amazing people from the workshop Inflating the Public_2 featured as a temporary urban playful social space on 24 May 2015 at Festival NEON curated by ABR Alternative Brains Rule. A live art project was created by Mathieu Devavry and Baroque Rococo who painted the …
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Gorillas went local with Anamorphes – Body Art Factory at Let’s Go Kaimakli! Neighbourhood Event on 26 April 2015. A pair of French performers took us into the anthropometric dimension: Created on a plastic cylindrical volume, a pictural work revealed itself through the story of an encounter between body and paint.
