Performance Art in Urban Spaces: Graffiti, Street Art & More

This archive dives into the captivating world of performance art as it intersects with graffiti, street art, and urban environments. Explore how artists use their bodies, the city itself, and audience participation to create fleeting, impactful experiences. From bold interventions in public spaces to intimate, site-specific works, we showcase diverse examples of performance art that push boundaries and redefine the relationship between art and its surroundings. Discover how these ephemeral expressions contribute to the rich tapestry of urban culture. Delve into artist profiles, insightful analyses, and captivating photographic documentation.

Rasta Dubstep Graffiti Performance

Projects, bringing together different arts are almost always my taste, especially when they combine spray-paint and modern technology. The official music video Who Cares by Symbiz Sound is such a project… In cooperation with students from Braunschweig University of Arts and the Institute for Comupter-graphics of TU Braunschweig, Symbiz Sound created this awesome video, combining Rasta hairstyles, exquisite dubstep sounds, live graffiti action, performance and paint with the latest digital production techniques (keyword: Virtual Video Camera). ...

The Street Arts Melting Pot

stamp festival The Street Arts Melting Pot (or Stamp for short) is the name of the upcoming international festival for street arts in Hamburg! Scraping together about 2.000 artists and performers from all over the globe, Stamp will transform Hamburg’s city into a multi-cultural, creative melting pot this September… Street performances, illuminated carnival costume arts, two parades - during the day and at night, multiple street music and urban cabaret, spectacular street dance and the latest street art: International and local artists create an event which is unique in its kind in Germany and a meeting point for the international street arts scene - a new festival for Hamburg. (about Stamp) ...

Anthony Lister Live Art Performance

As announced, famous Australian painter Anthony Lister did a nice live art performance in Jaybo’s Project Room (Herakut, Kofie, El Mac and other famous urban artists painted there before!) in Berlin two days ago… Tools, brushstrokes, spraypaint, electric guitar, doubts and hopes, hate and love, heroes on the walls, fallen dreams, questions and answers, visibles and invisibles - Mr. Lister will take the challenge to paint about, with and for Berlin. ...

Mode2 Live Art Performance

Mode2 is one of the most famous graffiti artists in Europe - his skills in bringing painted characters to live are well-known around the world. This is why I’m always happy to find one or another new mural he created in the last months in Berlin! Tomorrow, we all have the chance to watch him in action… As a part of the Radical Riddims exhibition opening at the Schau Fenster Gallery, a live art performance by Mode2 is planned. He will create a new mural painting! In my eyes this is a must to see for every urban art enthusiast. I will definitely try to catch up with him… ...

Explosion Wall Art by Vhils

Urban Destruction Art | Almost a year ago I showed you my love for this kind of rough and energetic urban art by publishing a big fat interview with Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils! Now he’s back with a big bang-boom-bang and jumped in from zero to hero with these awesome exploding wall… I try focusing on the act of destruction to create; this is a notion I first came across in Graffiti, and it has been very influential in my work. I believe we are all formed of different sets of layers: personal, social, cultural, historical and so on. (Vhils) ...

Parisian Live Art Installation

Art Installation | One of my favorite art galleries in Berlin will present a weekend of Parisian live art installations next week: Skalitzers presents ‘Earthbound Escape’, in association with DAS Weekend - a live art installation by Parisian artists Babou and Tanc, exploring the visual and emotional boundaries between art, music and life. (Skalitzers) Both arists have already been part of the “Kiss the City” exhibition last year, in which they presented their beautiful interpretations of tags. For that reason I’m looking forward to the upcoming show - I really want to see how Babou and Tanc sounds and ink… ...

Intervention: Ghostbusters in New York!

Because of a handful of ghosts, the New York Public Library had to be cleaned by the Ghostbusters. Fortunately nobody of the present students and other intellectuals was injured - only one guy reported that one ghost tried to take possession of him… Yes, that’s a joke! That nice Ghostbusters intervention was planned and realized by the Improv Everywhere team which is also responsible for the No Pants subway ride… For our latest mission, we brought the movie Ghostbusters to life in the reading room of The New York Public Library at 42 Street. The 1984 movie begins with a scene in the very same room, so we figured it was time for the Ghostbusters to make an encore appearance. (Who You Gonna Call?) ...

Visual Facade Projection - Quadrature

Today I found that amazing audio/visual facade projection by Griduo in collaboration with Due3! It took place at the santralistanbul Art and Culture Center’s Main Gallery building located in Istanbul some month ago: “It is a live audio/visual performance composed of animated monochrome geometrical shapes matching the real size and form of the quadrilateral alluminium modules which form the facade of the building. ...