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Wasted Spaces has commissioned Hellicar & Lewis to develop the the Hello Wall. This installation uses Twitter to let the public interact with the huge wall projection on Wembley High Road.
Starting Monday 8th March, you can get involved by Tweeting commands to @thehellowall, or shapes (triangles, squares, circles), commands (more, less, shake) or just hello.
Also check the ongoing Smile Project
Luna Nera
ARTIST STATEMENT
Funded by Sandrine Albert, Valentina Floris and Gillina McIver, Luna Nera has been working as an artist-curator group since 1997 in London. Luna Nera aims to stimulate interest in the environmental and architectural heritage of localities. By asking the audience to re-look at sites in a new way, we address a series of issues around ideas of society, community, history, memory and public space. Our mission is to reclaim disused or abandoned “forgotten” spaces through art.
Luna Nera is concerned with exploring the conjunction of theory and practice in site-specific/site-responsive work. The collective operates as a kind of mobile gallery or institute of urban projects, as a network of projects and persons. We make on-site residencies and researches, and have created a number of large-scale live and visual art events in disused premises, including a Victorian theatre, 17thC underground prison, synagogue, church, and factories in the East London area. We have commissioned various local and international artists to produce live and visual site-responsive works.
Luna Nera’s video work documenting their projects has been shown in many festivals and venues including Art Moscow 2001; the Institute of Contemporary Art and Gallery 291 in London; the 6e Bienniale Champ Libre Manifestation Internationale Vidéo Et Art Électronique, Montréal; the Paradise Bunker Berlin; the Atelier des Artistes de cité d’Alexandrie; the Central Exhibition Hall St Petersburg; the VidiFestival Valencia and more.
