 wooden hippo to be towed up the River Thames in London. The sculpture was moored in Nine Elms for a month-long festival. 'I wanted to use the hippo to get people out of their homes, away from the internet and the TV, and to explore London with a new perspective,' said Hofman at the time. The Telegraph){kind=link}
Giant animal passes water every three minutes to show ‘he is p—-d off’ about climate change, says artist
A statue of a polar bear urinating into a Dutch canal will no longer pass water at night after noise complaints from nearby sleep-deprived residents.
The giant “p—-d off” bear, erected to highlight the effects of climate change, had urinated every three minutes, 24 hours a day, before its neighbours complained the flow made too much noise.
But now the artwork, which was installed in the centre of the city of Amersfoort in July, will be switched off overnight before resuming its business at 7am.
“The idea was to have the polar bear pee, uncontrolled by us. But then people said it stopped them from sleeping so we thought we better turn him off at night,” said Paul Baltus, the director of the city’s Flehite museum.