Just came across an interesting practice artists are doing. It is called shopdropping, the opposite of shoplifting.
SHOPDROPPING strives to take back a share of the visual space we encounter on daily basis. Similar to the way street art stakes a claim to public space for self expression, my shopdropping project subverts commercial space for artistic use in an attempt to disrupt the mundane commercial process with a purely artistic moment. The photographs act as a visual journal of my travels over the past few years. Displayed in nonlinear combinations the images remix the traditional narrative of the passing of time. The vibrant individuality of each image is a stark contrast to the repetitive, functional, package design that is replaced. Shopdropping gives voice to the pervasive disillusionment from our increasingly commercial society. A voice that is, paradoxically, made possible only by commercial technological advancements.
That was taken from shopdropping.net.
It seems I am seeing more and more art that is made and then just left in public spaces. I’ve even heard of cities that have walls available for public creation of art. I wonder how official Haystack Rock is?
(Thanks Lost in E Minor for the tip.)
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