In the Spring of 2011 the Chipstone Foundation and the Milwaukee Art Museum invited sixteen established artists from Britain and America to participate in an unusual experiment. Each artist was asked to lay aside his or her standard tool kit and craft a work of art with one tool alone. The challenge presented to the artists sounds simple: create a work of art with one tool. The material and tool were left open-ended with the purpose of encouraging creativity within the one-tool constraint.

In the Spring of 2011 the Chipstone Foundation and the Milwaukee Art Museum invited sixteen established artists from Britain and America to participate in an unusual experiment. Each artist was asked to lay aside his or her standard tool kit and craft a work of art with one tool alone. The challenge presented to the artists sounds simple: create a work of art with one tool. The material and tool were left open-ended with the purpose of encouraging creativity within the one-tool constraint.

In the Spring of 2011 the Chipstone Foundation and the Milwaukee Art Museum invited sixteen established artists from Britain and America to participate in an unusual experiment. Each artist was asked to lay aside his or her standard tool kit and craft a work of art with one tool alone. The challenge presented to the artists sounds simple: create a work of art with one tool. The material and tool were left open-ended with the purpose of encouraging creativity within the one-tool constraint.

More information from behind the scenes of Phenomenal.

Sudarshan Shetty builds machines on the verge of breakdown, that reflect the dystopia and uncertainty he experiences in the city life of Bombay. Sudarshan Shetty is part of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' exhibition "The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India". • Video by Kai Hsing (proto-kai.com) • Music by Prince Rama via Free Music Archive (www.freemusicarchive.org) • More about the exhibition Sudarshan is part of at ybca.org/​matter-within

Thukral & Tagra use disposable bottles in installations and sculptures that depict the diaspora of India's youth. On a series of bottles, Thukral & Tagra portray young Indian men whose visions of success assume leaving their home country. Thukral & Tagra are part of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' exhibition "The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India". • Video by Kai Hsing (proto-kai.com) • Music by Cloud Mouth via Free Music Archive (www.freemusicarchive.org) • More about the exhibition Thukral & Tagra are part of at ybca.org/​matter-within

Filmed in conjunction with the exhibition /Thing/Thought: Fluxus Editions, 1962–1978/. During the course of the exhibition, the display of Fluxkits—collective groupings of Fluxus Editions assembled by George Maciunas—will change. Artists—some who were original members of Fluxus—have been invited to select objects from the kits and determine their arrangement. © 2011 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

In Nnenna Okore’s native language, Igbo, Mbembe means shadow. In this video, Okore discusses her piece Mbembe and its commentary on indiscriminant waste in consumer societies.

For Mbembe, Okore recycled and transformed used plastic bags into a large, hanging installation that emphasizes the pervasive presence and looming shadow of plastic bags in contemporary culture. Mbembe was featured in the Tang Museum exhibition Environment and Object - Recent African Art (2011).