SF | PAINT, BALLOONS, BUILDINGS & VIOLENCE

A couple weeks ago I started brainstorming with my friend, Luca, about throwing paint balloons to make paintings. Along the conversation, I started poking my nose around the internet and quickly found a thread that would read: paint is a common way to both allude to and evade violence, condemned architecture is often the object of alluded to and evaded violence.

So, now we want to explode houses with paint. And our idea is, of course, WAY different than any of these below...


Paintballing
- image from Paintball Galaxy





Community paint balloon slingshot demolition
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Pittsburgh, PA, balloons were lauched by a 25 foot tall slingshot constructed by Johnny Lee and Joshua Atlas as a public art installation to give community members an opportunity to take part in transforming the high-rise into one of the largest art monuments in the country before its scheduled demolition.





Gordon Matta-Clark
- text from Object To Be Destroyed: The Work Of Gordon Matta-Clark by Pamela M. Lee (pg 116)
- additional reading and image reference from an article discussing anarchitecture

On the afternoon of the opening...Matta-Clark appeared with a BB gun...and asked MacNair permission to shoot out a couple of the windows of the Institute [for Architecture and Urban Studies]... The windows were already cracked, he reasoned...

MacNair agreed conditionally to Matta-Clark's proposal, but it was a decision he would come to regret. Describing the artist as "incredibly wrecked," he watched horrified as Matta-Clark proceeded to shoot out all the windows on the floor of the Institute, all the while raging against its esteemed members and the architectural ideologies they supported.






Jonathan Glazer's half paint-as-fireworks-display, half paint-as-demolition-explosion advertising concept for Sony Bravia.
- watch the commercial
- watch the making of the commercial