Infiltration Art is a branch of Intervention Art

Intervention art

Intervention Art is art which enters a situation and attempts to change the existing conditions there.Intervention art may attempt to change economic or political situations, or may attempt to make people aware of a condition that they previously had no knowledge of...

 in which artists collaborate with institutions, communities, politicians, religions, museums and pop-culture figures outside of the traditional art world. Unlike other forms of intervention art, Infiltration Art seeks to create symbiotic relationships with the host institutions.

Artists whose work incorporates elements of infiltration include Banksy

Banksy

Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique...

, Christian Cummings, Nikki S. Lee

Nikki s. lee

Nikki Seung-hee Lee is a Korean American New York City-based artist and filmmaker. After earning B.F.A. at Chung-Ang University in South Korea in 1993, she moved to New York in 1994 and attended the Fashion Institute of Technology. She earned her M.A...

, Taryn Simon

Taryn Simon

Taryn Simon is an American photographer. She is a graduate of Brown University and a Guggenheim Fellow. She was born in New York.Her photography and writing have been featured in numerous publications and broadcasts including the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, CNN, BBC, Frontline, and NPR...

, Jeffrey Vallance

Jeffrey Vallance

Jeffrey Karl Reese Vallance is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California....

, David Hildebrand Wilson

David Hildebrand Wilson

David Hildebrand Wilson is the co-founder of the Museum of Jurassic Technology along with his wife, Diana Wilson. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship in 2001. He received an MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts in 1976. He and his museum are the subject of...

, Fred Wilson

Fred Wilson (artist)

Conceptual artist Fred Wilson describes himself as of "African, Native American, European and Amerindian" descent. Wilson received a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1999 and the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award in 2003. Wilson represented the United States at the Biennial Cairo in 1992 and the...

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External links

• The Art of Infiltration class at California Institute of the Arts.
• Profile on Nikki S. Lee by Rodrigo Maltez-Novaes, DimSum magazine, January 23, 2002.
• Profile on Nikki S. Lee by Chas Bowie, Portland Mercury, May 1, 2003.
• Interview with Jeffrey Vallance, WhiteHot Magazine, March 2011.
• David Pagel interview with Jeffrey Vallance, Bomb magazine, Summer 1996.
• Review of Popocultural exhibition at South London Gallery, Frieze Magazine, May 1997.
• Review of Banksy exhibition at Bristol City Museum, by Helen Weaver, Art in America, September 18, 2009.