July 2014 - tools for action

Interview for Disobedient Objects - Exhibition Victoria & Alberts Museum -

Italian based architect-group UFO makes an inflatable intervention during an anti-Vietnam protest in Firenze. Date to be verified. — *Italian based architect-group UFO makes an inflatable intervention during an anti-Vietnam protest in Firenze.*

Artúr van Balen has produced inflatables for protest as a member of former group Eclectic Electric Collective and, now, Tools for Action. One such inflatable, a cobblestone for a 2012 demonstration in Barcelona, will be featured in ‘Disobedient Objects’. In this post we interview Artur about his own work, the role of inflatables, and their long history as objects of protest.

Read more here: Disobedient Objects Interview