Blowing up New York

 

Something's making the trash in New York dance - and this time it ain't the rats. Local art student Joshua Allen Harris has attached plastic garbage bags to sidewalk subway grates, so that when a train passes underneath the creations are filled with air and spring to life in the form of dancin' animals.

Harris says that since he's a student and unable to exhibit professionally, the street has become his gallery. 

Watch the animals a-dancin'

 

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Meet The Artists

Thu, 10/07/2008 - 10:56 — Joshua

Check here for an interview with the man himself. Interesting that his interest in this art form was fading just when someone splashed it up on the net. http://video.nymag.com/   just search for Joshua Allen Harris and "click".

 

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Animals of New York

Thu, 10/04/2008 - 18:29 — Joshua

 It's not just the movement when the animal is alive as the heat rises through the vent but also when the heat is gone and the animal is actually sucked back onto the grate and all air is removed! It's an amazing experience watching art like this. Increasingly street art is less about content or the outcome of the piece and more about the materials and context. A long way from 1980/90 graffiti.