The Madagascar Institute

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MADAGASCAR INSTITUTE
Art Collective
Brooklyn, NY

The Madagascar Institue is a Brooklyn based art collective that specializes in large scale sculptures, rides, live performances and guerilla art events.

Their past events and projects have included Flaming Soccer, Jet Blenders, Zombie Freak Outs, Death Rattlers, Condiment Wars and many others.

The group is also affiliated with Dark Passage, Idiotarod, Cyclecide Bike Rodeo, Junkyard Wars, Brooklyn Fake Winter Olympics, Burning Man, Black Label's Ride or Die and many others.

The best way to fully understand all this is to just go to their website.

Madagascar Institutes Running of the Bulls

Madagascar Institute's Running of the Bulls sourced from Herbgo

Jet Bike

Jet Bike sourced from Caution Mike

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Tod Seelie

"The Madagascar Institute is a collective of these crazy people who make really cool things and pull off all these ambitious and imaginative ideas. They had a team in the condiment war that happened in Dumbo. It happened years ago and basically a handful of collectives decided to have a condiment war, which was basically just as it sounds. The weapons were condiments like ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise and hot sauce... which turned out to be particularly devastating because it really stings in your eyes and it was just wrecking people. One team had dough bombs, which also worked pretty well. Teams built catapults and one team even built a tank, which was basically a hot dog cart with people on top of it. Afterward we all went swimming in the East River to clean up, which was pretty much as gross as it sounds."

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