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Urban hacking, when art reveals the city

Contemporary Art | From counter-power to counter-culture; when the notion of “hacking” is transposed to the city’s public space, the streets become a field of experimentation and potentialities. From an artistic perspective, urban hacking interventions consist of diverting the public space’s usual components and reclaiming its daily vitalizing elements.

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Mark Jenkins
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Although the expression « urban hacking » is relatively recent, it is regarded as transgenerational. The concept exposes realities that are linked to the urban space; this tendency is perceivable in young artists’ pieces but also in the work of some of the greatest figures in contemporary art. Since the 1960’s, […]

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Mark Jenkins © Courtesy Mark Jenkins Collage du gisant sur les marches du métro Charonne, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, 1971 © Ernest Pignon-Ernest In 2005, the graffiti prankster Banksy surreptitiously hung a work in the Brooklyn Museum © Credit Courtesy of the Wooster Collective Mark Jenkins, Dublin © Mark Jenkins Martin Parker - Banksters Project - Détournement Détournement de boîte de dépôt bancaire, Paris, France - 2013 © Martin Parker Paris, artwork by Barnbrook, Klink & Friends, 2015 © Brandalism Kidult © DR

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