Pigeon Mission

smuggler on the road

pigeon cigar and camera harnesses

harness details

the Smugglers & the Filmmakers 

Completed & Killed 

Pigeon Loft

See You at The Finish Line

Duke Riley

Riley trained 50 homing pigeons to make the round-trip journey between Florida and Havana, equipped them with video cameras and harnesses designed for smuggling cigars. They made it or failed - but all the 50 pigeons are commemorated in beautiful portraits.

Mrs Free

New York New York

Nico

Mr Dead & Mrs Free

a dadaist vision of late 20th century New York

Performa 13

Squat

“To make sense of the world, the artist’s task is to sit at his window when evening falls and dream it to himself!”

Franz Kafka

Banksy Free Art

Wood Green Banksy for the 2012 Olympic Games

The stencilled artwork disappeared some weeks ago to resurface on an American online auction site with a starting price of $400.000. Later it was unexpectedly withdrawn from sale following pressure from people in the area and Haringey politicians.

new artworks appeared immediately on the wall...

"Might it be that the former site of the Wood Green Banksy be utilised as a continually evolving space - where we get to leave our mark as an expression of free will and a statement for the liberating act of making art?"

Turnpike Art Group

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Freedom...

LIBERTé

It Could Be

Philip Horani 

2011

Bullet 

Khaled Abdulwahed

2011

the story of the Syrian uprising told via videotaped painting performances

as following the closure of the country to foreign journalists, ordinary Syrians have taken it upon themselves to document, inform and comment on unfolding events.

virtual agora

The Freedom Fighter

Janacek: The Cunning Little Vixen
in Glyndenbourne

Janacek's vixen-heroine is an independent free spirit who urges others to fight for their freedom, too. 

However she has to enter the eternal life-cycle by falling in love and having children.

Dictatorship

Pinochet

1973 Chile

Caligula

2012 ENO

mad dictators use sports stadiums for the abuse of freedom...

but people's enormous respect for power

 isn't also responsible for dictatorships?

Gift Art

 Over the River

Project for the Arkansas River

State of Colorado, USA

Design: 1992

Realisation: 2014

The project seeks to suspend 5.9 miles of gleaming silver-translucent fabric panels above the river interrupted only by existing bridges, trees and rocks to run along 42 miles with sunshine blinking through the gaps and give an artistic vision to those on the US Highway 50 and to rafters, canoers and kayakers underneath for a two week period in the summer. 

Christo and Jeanne-Claude's installations are always paid by themselves, no sponsors involved. In the realization of this project they have invested 19 years and 7 million US dollars so far.

Their breathtaking large scale land-art installations are poetical demonstrations of absolute freedom and irrationality. They are beautiful gifts to the viewers to encourage them to imagine the surrounding environment in a whole new way.

"Our art has absolutely no purpose, except to be a work of art. 
We do not give messages."

Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Annely Juda Fine Art

Free Ai Wei Wei!

Ai Wei Wei the world famous Chinese artist was arrested in Hongkong by Chinese authorities on 3 April and has since remained missing. Now pro Ai Wei Wei stencils are popping up all over Hong Kong, asking 

WHO IS AFRAID OF AI WEI WEI?

And someone is projecting the same message on buildings around the city and “Cpak Ming” is then taking photos and 

posting them on Facebook

Freedom Fight

Empty frontpages of two weekly cultural magazines against the planned new media-policy of the rightist government which aims to control the freedom of speech and press in Hungary.

Message in a Bottle

Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle by Yinka Shonibare

The new artwork on the Fourth Plinth of Trafalgar Square in London is a giant scale replica of HMS Victory, in a bottle. The ship's enormous sails are made of the richly patterned textiles commonly associated with African dress. These fabrics are, in fact, inspired by Indonesian batik design, mass produced by the Dutch and sold to the colonies in West Africa. By the 1960s the material was popularly assimilated in Africa and became symbolic of African identity and independence. Tying together historical and global threads and traversing oceans and continents, this work considers the complexity of British expansion in trade and Empire, made possible through the freedom of the seas that Nelson’s victory provided.
"This piece is an expression of Nelson's legacy, a legacy which has contributed to the diversity of this city." says Yinka Shonibare.