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Social sculpture is a phrase used to describe an expanded concept of art that was invented by the artist and founding member of the German Green Party, Joseph Beuys. Beuys created the term "social sculpture" to embody his understanding of art's potential to transform society.
Joseph Heinrich Beuys (/ b ɔɪ s / BOYSS, German: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈbɔʏs]; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism and sociology.
Julia Vogl is an artist originally from Washington, D.C. who lives and works in London, England.She is a social sculptor, [1] and primarily makes public art. [2] Through a process of community engagement, her works build bright color into existing architectural landmarks, revealing local cultural values.
Christopher Robbins is an American artist that focuses his art practice in the realm of public art and social sculpture. Robbins works internationally, using physical and conversational processes to create interactions between strangers in order to build community and problem-solve.
In 1980 shortly after moving to New York City from Chicago, Bidlo participated in Colab's Times Square Show and in 1982 Bidlo was awarded a studio at the PS1 Museum where he staged Jack the Dripper at Peg's Place, [2] an installation rendering his vision of Peggy Guggenheim's Beekman Place townhouse, with the fireplace famously used by Pollock as a pissoir.
Keith Lam (Chinese: 林欣傑; born in 1980) is a Hong Kong new media artist. [1] He is the co-founder and artistic director of Dimension Plus, an arts & technology team based in Hong Kong and Taiwan, dedicated to the creation and curation of artistic and technological projects.
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Charges were later dismissed. [1] Conceptual artist and provocateur Joseph Beuys described it as "the first social-sculpture to use mass-media as art.” [2] ABC's Eyewitness News named it 1977's Best News of the Year. The piece garnered international attention and the cover of the New York Post. [3] His film Bridging, 1977 documented the event.