Orange Alert

Posted by Sheila Redick on May 09, 2006

Metropolis (June, 2006) reports on Object Orange, an anonymous group of artists working in Detroit using paint to advocate demolition as a positive force for change.

"Object Orange scouted out neighborhoods cursed with an exceptional number of collapsing houses -- several of them marked by the city with a 'D' for demolition -- and returned before dawn to cover their facades with Tiggerific paint [a Disney bright orange]," reports Metropolis.

Results? Three of nine houses demolished with months.

"If nothing else, Object Orange has produced a new typology for site-specific art installations:  art as a possible agent of demolition," the article concludes.