"Untitlted", 2009

In an attempt to make visible what has been made invisible, we made an installation of a figure "reaching out" to pedestrians in the public sphere of Toronto. Constructed in a material seen as worthless and disposable, garbage bags reflect the stigma that the issue of homelessness has. The constant inflation from an airshaft, an intrinsic characteristic of the urban landscape, demonstrates homelessness likewise innate tie to the city. However, as laws and restrictions push homelessness outside of public view, contributions to the problem of misrepresentation are made. By intervening on public space we are endeavoring to bring acknowledgment to an issue that requires a better understanding.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• homeless
• homelessness
• art
• intervention
• inflate
• inflatable
• bags
• bag

[jeanblaze]

@harrisdanger hey josh! This was in Toronto, just outside city hall.

[harrisdanger]

it's josh

awesome

where is this?

[jeanblaze]

Yes it is! The nature of the assignment called for taking a preexisting artist's work and then to take it in your own direction.

Our group members all really enjoyed his work as well, we decided to give it a more political connotation.

[AerialTheShamen]

Aren't these the same inflatable sculptures like by Joshua Allen Harris?!?

This low-tech approach of making animated inflatable human and other art figures is really amazing.