#HorrorToHope 2024–2025 | Global Movement for Peace | By Kelli Sharp
#HorrorToHope is a global, artist-led movement responding to an era of political rupture, democratic erosion, and humanitarian crisis. Through interventions in public space, the project mobilises art as both witness and disruption transforming fear, spectacle, and silence into acts of collective accountability.
Artists, creatives, and activists are invited to intervene through street art, installation, performance, and guerrilla actions that operate inside everyday civic life rather than outside it. These works are encountered without announcement, collapsing the boundaries between spectatorship and complicity.
Peace NOT War | Freedom NOT Entrapment | Compassion NOT Violence
This installation comprises three interrelated elements: the apparatus, the invitation, and the infiltration.
F-47’s Camp Dictator — Global MEET & GREET functioned as a guerrilla intervention within the Lunar Cinema complex Leederville, Western Australia! Temporarily occupying the Lunar Cinema while audiences gathered for the premiere screening of The Apprentice. Installed without consent or announcement, the work parasitically embedded itself within a live audience event, collapsing diplomacy, spectacle, and entertainment into a single site of consumption.
Encountered in real time, the installation operated as both object and action—implicating viewers through proximity, timing, and the normalisation of political theatre. The work existed only briefly before some viewers protested and asked for it to be removed, leaving documentation as its only remaining trace.
Running concurrently, the counter-installation Global #HorrorToHope — Leaders of Hope Needed operated as an open call rather than an indictment. Installed within the public office of John Carey MLA State & local Representative only blocks away on the same street, it framed ethical leadership as a vacancy, an absence to be filled rather than a power to be exposed.
Together, these works form a split-screen of collapse and possibility: one revealing the mechanics of authoritarian spectacle, the other inviting responsibility, care, and public imagination..