8.14.2010

Brad Downey in Germany: Beneath the paving stones....


The Beginning and the End, Hamburg, 2010 [via]

Louisville-born, Berlin-based artist Brad Downey has apparently been interpreting the '68 Situationists graffito "Beneath the paving stones, the beach" ("Sous les pavés, la plage!") by unearthing German street stones to create sand castles, impromptu 3D installations, and domino-style performance interventions.


Castles Beneath Cities, 2008

Un-Stitching Karl, Berlin, 2007, a performance captured on video in which Downey created dominoes from the surface of Karl Marx Allee and toppled them

1 comment:

Block paving Birmingham said...

Nice one.I have heard couple of sounds about the Germany stones which are also mine favorites. Really catchy domino-style.