Permission To Land | May 2011 | Dublin

In May 2011 PrettyvacanT Dublin unleashed Permission To Land by street artist Litmus.

Dublin’s empty and abandoned properties have always been testament to the greed of the boom years.

Yet the development continues;  buildings continue to be built, and Dublin’s properties still sport fresh planning applications.

Permission To Land saw street artist Litmus parody the still-present climate for development, and satirise the boom years that produced this wave of dormant space.

Each of the five pieces was a hoax planning application with accompanying artist's impression for a fantastical, amazingly wasteful construction that no one in their right minds would build.

A dry-ski slope on Redmond’s Hill

A moving pedestrian walkway on O’Connell Street,

A multi-million euro Air Zeppelin port on Earlsford Terrace,

A rollercoaster at Boland’s Mill,

A Mt Rushmore-style commemorative statue at Smithfield featuring Fianna Fail Taoiseachs.

The planning applications and artist's impressions were placed on those very key locations overnight.

Litmus forced to ask us the question: how much development can we tolerate, and hoped passers-by may be fooled into thinking the applications real.

PrettyvacanT Dublin worked with Litmus to select the abandoned locations, ran a Twitter teaser campaign, and documented the artwork.