Art intervention
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Art intervention is an interaction with a previously existing artwork, audience, venue/space or situation. It is in the category of conceptual art and is commonly a form of performance art. It is asso
"Cloudburst of material possessions" Leonardo Da Vinci with the inscription – "Oh human misery, how many things you must serve for money" Royal Collection.
"This is worse" 1812–15 etchings of war published after Goya's death
Construction drawing - La Restinga II, El Hierro, 1983
Stuckist artists dressed as clowns intervene at the Turner Prize, Tate Britain, in 2000
Cai Yuan and Jian Jun Xi
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Cai Yuan and Jian Jun Xi are two Chinese-born artists, based in Britain, who work together under the name Mad For Real. They have enacted events at the Venice Biennale and the Turner Prize, where, in
Art intervention
…of an unauthorised intervention—which did no damage, yet was still liable for prosecution—occurred at 12.58 p.m. on 25 October 1999, when two artists, Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi, jumped on Tracey Emin's installation My Bed, in the Turner Prize at Tate Britain, wearing only underwear. They called their performance Two Naked Men…
Jian Jun Xi & Cai Yuan outside the Fridericianum museum, Kassel, Germany.
Yuan Cai and Jian Jun Xi performing at the Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool.