I would love to take part in a disorienting art project in my city, similar to those of Fred Lebain or Liu Bolin. I will try to convince my friend Dana, who may be up for it, considering her Action. Reaction. Interaction. project for which she, among other things, "hijacked" the audience's direction by randomly placing fun directional arrows throughout London that eventually led to a sign bluntly announcing: GO BACK. PLAY. She explains it as:
Guiding people through the urban space, and surprising them by changing the signs, playing with arrows, is a system to analyze the politically coded society today. Challenging people’s senses, directional choices, trust, curiosity, behavior - in order to explore what makes sense for me, and how it can affect the others, and to make them become active: to play with the environment.
Lebain played with the New York audience by taking photos of certain spots, boosting them on posters and later aligning these posters in their original environment:
Liu Bolin from China does something similar - but with his body. With the help of his assistant (I wanna be someone's assistant on such a cool project!), Liu paints a part of an ambient on himself and then takes photos of his body picture blended with the real picture. Enjoy!
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