Suggestion Box In a invitation to the public to write and deposit ideas or thoughts in a box, collecting anonymous suggestions from all over the world, this time in Mexico City, and sharing them as a collective reflection of the community.
Suggestion Box has traveled to three continents, activated by individuals and groups in their local communities, collecting suggestions from tens of thousands of people, in several languages. In 2005, Chronicle Books published a compilation of suggestions made in New York City entitled Suggestion.
This is a cardboard box painted white with the word “SUGGESTION” (SUGERENCIA) printed in black letters on all four sides, there is a small slit in the upper part of the box. The box is carried along with clipboard, paper and pens. We ask the public to make suggestions, any ideas or thoughts, of any kind, without any limitations or guidelines, just the invitation of the box to participate: Come up and make your suggestion!
Once you fill the boxes with all the suggestions, they will be compiled and many of them published on ArteAbierto's social networks as anonymous thoughts.
For this action, people in different parts of Mexico City were asked to write down a suggestion, idea or thought of any kind on a sheet, and to deposit it in a small slit included in a transportable cardboard box. Once the boxes were filled with suggestions, they were compiled and published on Arte Abierto's social networks as anonymous thoughts.
The boxes were opened with Otis Kriegel, co-founder of Illegal Art, in Arte Abierto.
The Illegal Art collective was founded in 2001 by artists Otis Kriegel and Michael McDevitt in New York. Its goal is to create participatory public art to inspire self-reflection, thinking and human connection. Each piece is presented or distributed in a way that encourages participation and is simple. His projects have been installed in the United States and South America, Europe and the Middle East.
The results of their project, Suggestion Box, were published by Chronicle Books (Suggestion, August 2005). Suggestion Box has also traveled to three continents, activated by individuals and groups from their local communities, collecting suggestions from tens of thousands of people, in numerous languages.
Illegal Art's work has appeared in media outlets such as National Public Radio, WNYC Radio, American Public Radio, The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Flavorpill, The Public Art Review, Dwell Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Ad Age, The Guardian and the New York Times.
They were the first artists in residence at the 2013 SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas and have been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Webb School of Knoxville and others.
Co-founder Otis Kriegel talks about the work of Illegal Art at TEDx Manhattan Beach in October 2018. Illegal Art also collaborates with other groups and institutions such as the architectural collective 1319, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the Museum of Urban Art in Rome.
His work has been published in numerous catalogs in the United States and Europe.
In September 2019, Illegal Art presented its projects in Mexico City for the first time: The Last Word, Suggestion Box, What Color Are You?, and Measure Up (an installation commissioned by Arte Abierto). The four public art pieces were located within ARTZ, and Suggestion Box was activated at Arte Abierto and at different locations throughout Mexico City. Each piece seeks public participation as a collective creative experience.
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