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Without meeting Harmen de Hoop and Biancoshock will give eachother assignments to make an artwork in the city where they are.
Every work will be a reaction to the one made before by the other artist.
The documentation of their interventions and actions will be shown here.
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12.06.2017 BIANCOSHOCK GAVE HARMEN DE HOOP AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK ABOUT BARBED WIRE.
HARMEN DE HOOP: DRAWING FROM NATURE - ROTTERDAM, 2017
Art class exercise.
23.05.2017 HARMEN DE HOOP GAVE BIANCOSHOCK AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK ABOUT PLAYING.
BIANCOSHOCK: BARBEDBALL - KLAIPEDA, 2017
The intervention suggests a reflection on which is the most current loved and practiced 'sport' by Americans: basketball or estabilish barriers?
The metal grid of the backboard is a clear reference to the image of migrants and the immigration reception centers.
Action inspired by an earlier installation realized in 2014 in the immigration centre of Hal Far (Malta) for 'Identity Malta' project.
15.05.2017 BIANCOSHOCK GAVE HARMEN DE HOOP AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE SOMETHING DIRTY.
HARMEN DE HOOP: PLAY HOPSCOTCH - ROTTERDAM, 2017
Drawing a playground with mayonnaise. Do it yourself: http://wikihow.com/Play-Hopscotch
03.05.2017 HARMEN DE HOOP GAVE BIANCOSHOCK AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK ABOUT A CHILDHOOD MEMORY.
BIANCOSHOCK: A LETTER TO MY AUNT - MILAN, 2017
Biancoshock decides to write a letter to his great-aunt to turn an annoying memory of his childhood into an artwork.
Dear Aunt,
after all these years I finally decided to use for the first time the fountain pen you gave me as a gift for my First Communion.
When you have chosen this to be my gift you certainly didn't know that, being left-handed, I would have serious difficulties to use it.
During Primary School this problem costed me hours and hours writing down pages as a punishment to make me learn how not to dirt again.
Dear Auntie, you don't know, but today I'm an artist and I decided to turn this 'defect' into a particularity.
Your gift inspired me to create this artwork for the project I'm doing with the Dutch artist Harmen de Hoop who gave me an assignment to make a work about a childhood memory.
I hope you like it. With love,
Francesco a.k.a. Biancoshock
22.04.2017 BIANCOSHOCK GAVE HARMEN DE HOOP AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK ABOUT WAITING.
HARMEN DE HOOP: COUNTING - FLORENCE, 2017
Harmen de Hoop counting his days.
07.04.2017 HARMEN DE HOOP GAVE BIANCOSHOCK AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK ABOUT TRAFFIC.
BIANCOSHOCK: URBAN TRAFFIC vs VIRTUAL TRAFFIC - MILAN, 2017
Biancoshock transfers 20 minutes of urban traffic using his virtual traffic data to make a comparison between two different concepts of traffic and utilizing different units of measurement belonging to two different worlds: the real one and the virtual one.
Time of urban traffic record > 20:13 min.
Virtual size of urban traffic > 1,99 Gb.
Traffic data used to move urban traffic > 2,32 Gb.
Time frame to move urban traffic with traffic data > 7:17 hours
16.03.2017 BIANCOSHOCK GAVE HARMEN DE HOOP AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK ABOUT IN & OUT OF FOCUS.
HARMEN DE HOOP: EYESIGHT TEST - ROTTERDAM, 2017
Putting up an eyesight test for passing car drivers and cyclists.......
09.02.2017 HARMEN DE HOOP GAVE BIANCOSHOCK AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK ABOUT RELIGION.
BIANCOSHOCK: UNTITLED - SAINT ETIENNE, 2017
Just like a prayer recited in a church, each of us can create an intimate moment of detachment from the concrete and material things. Consequently reality and all its certainties begin to blur: it's the perfect moment to try to focus on what can really give us pure joy.
07.02.2017 BIANCOSHOCK GAVE HARMEN DE HOOP AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE SOMETHING MORE BEAUTIFUL.
HARMEN DE HOOP: ISLAMIC ORNAMENT (for Granada) - GRANADA, 2017
For centuries most of Spain was ruled by Islamic leaders, who gave us the beauty of the Alhambra. Now Harmen de Hoop adds a bit of culture to the door of an underground car park in the Albaicín neighbourhood.
29.01.2017 HARMEN DE HOOP GAVE BIANCOSHOCK AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK ABOUT SOMETHING NEGATIVE.
BIANCOSHOCK: REGENERATION - MILAN, 2017
Homage to "the Seventh Continent", also known as The Great Pacific Garbage. It is a gyre of marine debris in the central North Pacific Ocean discovered in 1985. The patch is characterized by exceptionally high concentration of pelagic plastics, chemical sludge and other debris that have been trapped by the currents of the North Pacific Gyre.
29.12.2016 BIANCOSHOCK GAVE HARMEN DE HOOP AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK ABOUT LEGAL/ILLEGAL.
HARMEN DE HOOP: FREEDOM OF SPEECH - THE HAGUE, 2017
About private opinions in public space.
(Ugly? Are you sure?)
21.12.2016 HARMEN DE HOOP GAVE BIANCOSHOCK AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK ABOUT A COUNTERCULTURE.
BIANCOSHOCK: SPRAY CAN-DLE - MILAN, 2017
A commemoration action aimed at the Municipality of Milan and its attempt to kill the graffiti culture. In 2015 the Municipality has offered more than 100 free walls (private and municipal) to the writers. An initiative that tried to contain the phenomenon of graffiti and, at the same time, looked like a countercultural initiative: but does painting on legal walls still belong to graffiti culture?
What is more important: the beauty of the letters or the illegal action of leaving your mark?
20.11.2016 BIANCOSHOCK GAVE HARMEN DE HOOP AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK ABOUT UP & DOWN.
HARMEN DE HOOP: MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR - ALICANTE, 2016
No cannonballs, just balls. Trying to imagine the hippie dream of love & peace.
05.11.2016 HARMEN DE HOOP GAVE BIANCOSHOCK AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK WITH SOAP.
BIANCOSHOCK: SOCIAL SLIDE - TIRANA, 2016
Action performed on the Pyramid of Tirana, a monument dedicated to Enver Hoxha, orthodox Marxist-Stalinist dictator, who, from 1944 to 1985, dragged Albania into a deep isolation.
This decadent Pyramid is located in the city center and it’s the symbol of the tragic period lived by the Albanians in those years. The vertex of the Pyramid represents the dictatorship and its totalitarian power, which observes and controls the entire city including the base of the Pyramid, which symbolizes the common people (repressed citizens without freedom and in a constant state of alert).
The first action highlights the impossibility to undertake a climb to leadership moving in a “clean way” (with a bar of soap fixed under the shoes and held in both hands). 'Clean' understood as fair, transparent and free.
The second action shows the opposite: if the "clean" comes from the vertex (the leadership) its path to reach the people would be much faster and direct (although spreading freedom sometimes can be a little bit dangerous and painful).
27.10.2016 BIANCOSHOCK GAVE HARMEN DE HOOP AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK ABOUT SOMETHING ORDINARY.
HARMEN DE HOOP: BATHING / CLEANING - ANTWERP, 2016
Action in Antwerp.
23.10.2016 HARMEN DE HOOP GAVE BIANCOSHOCK AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK ABOUT GARBAGE.
BIANCOSHOCK: DAILY GARBAGE - MILAN, 2016
Biancoshock threw the work-station of his fucking ordinary job in the garbage.
20.10.2016 BIANCOSHOCK GAVE HARMEN DE HOOP AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK ABOUT CLAIMING SOMETHING FOR YOURSELF.
HARMEN DE HOOP: THE DUSTBIN - ROTTERDAM, 2016
Harmen de Hoop stole a dustbin and installed it in his living room.
11.09.2016 HARMEN DE HOOP GAVE BIANCOSHOCK AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK ABOUT BLACK OR RED OR YELLOW.
BIANCOSHOCK: VANTABLACK - MILAN, 2016.
An entire thesis on Anish Kapoor (found on the internet) was written with an old Olivetti typewriter on a single sheet of paper. Each time the page ended it has been inserted again in the machine, overwriting the previous page until the last page of the thesis was replicated, resulting in a completely black page. It is a reflection on our society: without the appropriate opportunities for access to culture, people can not express themselves and show their thoughts and their art. It's a sort of representation of the present in which the space for culture is increasingly becoming limited. It is also a reaction to what happened recently: the famous artist Anish Kapoor has bought the rights to VANTABLACK, the most darkest black existing in the world that absorbs 99.965% of the light. Surrey Nanosystems (the producer of Vantablack) confirmed this, creating a controversy in the art world: is it acceptable and democratic that Kapoor will be the only one in the world who can use this color? Should art not be democratic by definition? The black sheet of paper shows how even the art of Anish Kapoor would be incomprehensible if someone had restricted his means to express himself.
Specifications | Title of the thesis: "Plasmare la percezione. Simbologie di materia, colore e vuoto nella scultura di Anish Kapoor" | author: Diana Milea
28.08.2016 BIANCOSHOCK GAVE HARMEN DE HOOP AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK ABOUT A FLAG.
HARMEN DE HOOP: GERMAN FLAG - COLOGNE, 2016.
From symbol to practical use.
14.08.2016 HARMEN DE HOOP GAVE BIANCOSHOCK AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK ABOUT DEATH.
BIANCOSHOCK: GLOBAL FLAG - TARTU (EST), 2016.
Iron rod, adjustable noose, chair.
02.08.2016 BIANCOSHOCK GAVE HARMEN DE HOOP AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK ABOUT BREATH(ING).
HARMEN DE HOOP: BALLOONS FOR C.B. VAANDRAGER - ROTTERDAM, 2016.
Harmen de Hoop (aged 56) inflated balloons spelling the word 'POETRY' and placed them on the grave of Cornelis Bastiaan Vaandrager, a Dutch poet who was famous in the 60's, became addicted to drugs in the 70's, wandered the streets as a misfit in the 80's and died lonely at the age of 56.
23.07.2016 HARMEN DE HOOP GAVE BIANCOSHOCK AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK WITH (OR ABOUT) TREES.
BIANCOSHOCK: SILENT GIFTS - HAMBURG, 2016.
Ø 24 cm – ventilation grid.
19.07.2016 BIANCOSHOCK GAVE HARMEN DE HOOP AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK ABOUT RELAXING.
HARMEN DE HOOP: DESERTED ISLAND - ZURICH, 2016.
Drawing and action.
14.07.2016 HARMEN DE HOOP GAVE BIANCOSHOCK AN ASSIGNMENT: MAKE A WORK ABOUT MONEY.
