U.A.V. (Unarmed Art Vehicle)

U.A.V. is a reinterpretation of drones as means of counter-institutional practice, appropriating it away from its military and surveillance roots and current uses. Relying on the storied counter-cultural power of graffiti and street art, U.A.V. builds an ecosystem to power performative expression within an ever-more surveilled and restricted society.

Through this work, the artists offer a tool of contestation to those that wish to counter dominant power, and does it through an open-source approach, lowering the technical and discursive barriers associated with it.

To the audience, U.A.V. proposes a ready-to-use transportable toolbox, and asks the audience to propose drawings and locations of interests through a tablet interface, to be autonomously sprayed by the U.A.V.In so doing, the participant also contributes to a corpus of potential counter-cultural expression, re-appropriable and remixable for later users of the work, and contributing to its evolving impact.‍

Alexandre A. Bizri

Alexandre A. Bizri

Alexandre A. Bizri

Alexandre A. Bizri