Andrew Shoben and Greyworld

Andrew Shoben is the founder of Greyworld (www.greyworld.org). They create works in public spaces - parts of the city that people see every day but normally ignore - that surprise and allow people to interact. That means doing things like making things like singing bus stops. Andrew is a former lecture and the RCA and Research Fellow at Goldsmiths University.

Greyworlds' goal is to create works that articulate public spaces, allowing some form of self-expression in areas of the city that people see every day but normally exclude and ignore. They aim to establish special intimacies through the unexpected articulation of objects installed in these spaces - to ‘short circuit’ both the environmental and social expectations supplied by the surrounding urban environment. They create spaces that offer the passers by an opportunity to join an unexpected ‘community of presence’, initiating an intimate communication which often leads to a personalization of the environment.