On March 2, 2011, artist JR won the TED prize at the TED Conference in Long Beach, California, and called for the creation of a global participatory art project with the potential to change the world. This project is called INSIDE OUT.
Photo: insideoutproject.net
Inspired by JR's large?format street "pastings", INSIDE OUT travels around the world--from Ecuador to Nepal, from Mexico to Palestine-- and gives everyone the opportunity to share their portrait and make a statement for what they stand for.
The group actions are then documented, archived and exhibited online, becoming a global platform for people to share their untold stories and transform messages of personal identity into works of public art.
Nearly 200,000 people from more than 112 countries & territories have participated. Each INSIDE OUT group action around the world is
On Saturday, the project came to Eastern Bed-Stuy. Residents posed for portraits in a truck outside the Welcome Home Garden, located on Halsey Street between Ralph and Patchen avenues, after which the project creators developed prints of the subjects.
