Jr Street Artist Ted Talk. In 2006, he created portrait of a generation, portraits of suburban thugs that he posted, in huge formats, in the bourgeois districts of paris.this illegal project became official when the paris city hall wrapped its building with jr’s photos. Jr is an artist with a desire to transform our collective streets — from french public houses to brazilian favelas.
Street artist jr made a wish in 2011: This is what the street artist and ted prize winner told charlie rose when he appeared on his show on friday. One year after making his ted prize wish, he shows how giant posters of human faces, pasted in public, are connecting communities, making change, and turning the world inside out.
In his recent ted2011 keynote speech he begins to answer the question could art change the world? by sharing his experience as.
Walking on the floor is surreal, as each […] Speaking at a ted talk in 2011, jr proposed to 'turn the world inside out' with an international participatory art project empowering people to put up their own images and speak up about their own causes and experiences. Caledonia curry started her career as a street artist, but leapfrogged to museums and galleries. The topics of three different tedtalks are converging this weekend in new york city … street artist jr, the winner of the 2011 ted prize, is pasting a portrait of a young member of the lakota tribe on a wall of manhattan’s high line park — part of a massive tribute to the native american nation that’s being pasted in north dakota and around new york city.