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Unlike unrealized architectural projects, which are frequently exhibited and circulated, unrealized artworks tend to remain unnoticed or little known. But perhaps there is another form of artistic agency in the partial expression, the incomplete idea, the projection of a mere intention? Agency of Unrealized Projects (AUP) seeks to document and display these works. Whether censored, forgotten, postponed, impossible, or rejected, unrealized projects form a unique testament to the speculative power of non-action.

AUP follows the publication entitled “Unbuilt Roads: 107 Unrealized Projects,” collated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Guy Tortosa after several years of international research conducted in the late 1990s. Twenty years later, the Agency of Unrealized Projects was formed in collaboration with Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle, and an open call for unrealized projects was issued for its first public exhibition at ArtBasel in 2011. The open call will continue until all unrealized art projects are compiled.

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MODELL OF AN OFFICE FOR A COUPLE OF TWINS, BOTH 1,38 TALL" - Tobias Rehrenberg

Attitudine Diplomatica - Hermann Pitz

Relatum (Iron Plate and Stone) - Lee Ufan

WATERWORKS - Mona Hatoum

Project pour le parc de sculpture de Vassiviére - Paul-Armand Gette

Double Exposure 1995-6  - Dan Graham

MAK - Wien  - Rosemarie Trockel

Merci, Thank you, Danke: Les 2 sujets  - Thomas Hirschorn

AUSSICHTSTURM, HOLZHAUS (WOHNHAUS), SCHWIMMBECKEN, FREIE FAHRT - Maria Eichhorn

Notebook Page: Home in the Form of a Banana with Garage,  - Claes Oldenburg

Agency of Unrealised Projects
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W3994
21.05.2011
Industry of the Ordinary
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Industry of the Ordinary wish to create a portrait of Barack Obama, at this monumental time, by casting his likeness in butter and taking him home to the State Fair in Springfield, Illinois, the town where his political career was born. The Harvest ...
Industry of the Ordinary wish to create a portrait of Barack Obama, at this monumental time, by casting his likeness in butter and taking him home to the State Fair in Springfield, Illinois, the town where his political career was born. The Harvest ...
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W4006
22.05.2011
The Panajachel Biennial’s Story: A Community Still to Come - Panajachel Biennial (Guatemala): "Shared Sensorium: Assemblages of Love, Labor and Politics"
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The Panajachel Biennial’s Story: A Community Still to Come The Panajachel Biennial was an initiative by a group of young independent curators (Karl Escher, Abbas Ibn Salah al Din, Guillermo Santamarina, Joao Castro da Silva y Takouhi Abesalom) who co ...
The Panajachel Biennial’s Story: A Community Still to Come The Panajachel Biennial was an initiative by a group of young independent curators (Karl Escher, Abbas Ibn Salah al Din, Guillermo Santamarina, Joao Castro da Silva y Takouhi Abesalom) who co ...
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W4201
24.05.2011
Roger Hiorns
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Section one, presents a communication to the people of Tuckerton NJ and in turn the people of NY. Section Two, I was asked to propose for the latest round of Fourth plinth installations. ...
Section one, presents a communication to the people of Tuckerton NJ and in turn the people of NY. Section Two, I was asked to propose for the latest round of Fourth plinth installations. ...
W4205
24.05.2011
Dublin girl sells soul for drugs  - Catherine Harty
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One of my many unrealized projects A number of years ago I saw a headline on the front of an evening paper. It read ‘Dublin girl sells soul for drugs’. Its a phrase which stayed with me, it generated an image in my mind of a track- suit glad young ...
One of my many unrealized projects A number of years ago I saw a headline on the front of an evening paper. It read ‘Dublin girl sells soul for drugs’. Its a phrase which stayed with me, it generated an image in my mind of a track- suit glad young ...
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W5220
07.10.2012
Return - Justyna Gruszczyk
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Justyna Gruszczyk RETURN Project consists on scenting former Lutheran church in Toruń with the incense, which is used by Orthodox Church. Interior of the church will remain empty. In a visual way nothing will change. The source of the fragrance will be h ...
Justyna Gruszczyk RETURN Project consists on scenting former Lutheran church in Toruń with the incense, which is used by Orthodox Church. Interior of the church will remain empty. In a visual way nothing will change. The source of the fragrance will be h ...
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W4252
24.05.2011
Enter Slowly - Jo Mitchell
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Enter Slowly – An Idea for a Proposal in Progress An open-ended, evolving, accumulative, partial, possible installation…… The Trailer: for the project or maybe the project only ever exists as a trailer, as an idea – a proposal! The Title ...
Enter Slowly – An Idea for a Proposal in Progress An open-ended, evolving, accumulative, partial, possible installation…… The Trailer: for the project or maybe the project only ever exists as a trailer, as an idea – a proposal! The Title ...
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W3607
13.05.2011
If you meet Buddha on the path, kill him, 2004-2011 - Shannon Bellum
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Technical aspects ​This is an installation made out of suspended fabric panels going from the floor, to 7 feet high at the entrance and finishing off at 9 feet high at the center of the maze. The panels are attached to plastic tubing that is suspe ...
Technical aspects ​This is an installation made out of suspended fabric panels going from the floor, to 7 feet high at the entrance and finishing off at 9 feet high at the center of the maze. The panels are attached to plastic tubing that is suspe ...
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W4720
26.05.2011
Matthew-Robin Nye
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1 – Islington Mill, Manchester. Submitted April 11 2011. Declined May 12 2011 To the Residency Awards Committee at the Islington Mill, Manchester: Thank you for taking the time to review my application for a 4-6 week Artist Residency at the Islingto ...
1 – Islington Mill, Manchester. Submitted April 11 2011. Declined May 12 2011 To the Residency Awards Committee at the Islington Mill, Manchester: Thank you for taking the time to review my application for a 4-6 week Artist Residency at the Islingto ...
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W4079
23.05.2011
O.K & K.O Bank - O.K & K.O Bank
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This was a proposal realized for Neón Parallax Project in Geneva, Schwitzerland. This is an ambitious and singular public art project that will provide with luminous artworks to set on the roofs of buildings around the Plaine de Plainpalais Imagine a ...
This was a proposal realized for Neón Parallax Project in Geneva, Schwitzerland. This is an ambitious and singular public art project that will provide with luminous artworks to set on the roofs of buildings around the Plaine de Plainpalais Imagine a ...
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W4481
25.05.2011
Social Media Surrogate  - Jesse Fulton
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Fulton 1 Social Media Surrogate Summary Social Media Surrogate is a conceptual online performance. The piece in its simplest form consists of the following four actions: 1. Write a script to gather data from a social network which accurately character ...
Fulton 1 Social Media Surrogate Summary Social Media Surrogate is a conceptual online performance. The piece in its simplest form consists of the following four actions: 1. Write a script to gather data from a social network which accurately character ...
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W3804
18.05.2011
Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan
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"An experience being an experience like an experience you just had" was an unsuccessful proposal for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. ...
"An experience being an experience like an experience you just had" was an unsuccessful proposal for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. ...
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W5035
31.08.2012
Firstandlast - Heikki Salo
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Firstandlast was submitted to ISEA 04 in Helsinki. The installation consists of a series of artificial worlds, ranging from videoscapes to fully abstract spaces (e.g. from natural landscapes to fractal universes) that represent the development of a fic ...
Firstandlast was submitted to ISEA 04 in Helsinki. The installation consists of a series of artificial worlds, ranging from videoscapes to fully abstract spaces (e.g. from natural landscapes to fractal universes) that represent the development of a fic ...
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W4146
23.05.2011
Art School - Cornford & Cross
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Art School would have occupied the Chisenhale Gallery, London, for one month to facilitate an explicit and implicit enquiry into notions of the art school. With contributions from artists, writers and curators, the project would have encouraged participa ...
Art School would have occupied the Chisenhale Gallery, London, for one month to facilitate an explicit and implicit enquiry into notions of the art school. With contributions from artists, writers and curators, the project would have encouraged participa ...
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W4620
25.05.2011
Valeska Peschke
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W5150
24.09.2012
a Tunnel - Nimrod Reuveni
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A Tunnel - an unrealized project The project was designed for "Fresh Paint 3" art fair in Tel Aviv, 2009, as a special project of Nimrod Reuveni in collaboration with Dani Karavan. Explanation: Three-dimensional composition, consisting of ready m ...
A Tunnel - an unrealized project The project was designed for "Fresh Paint 3" art fair in Tel Aviv, 2009, as a special project of Nimrod Reuveni in collaboration with Dani Karavan. Explanation: Three-dimensional composition, consisting of ready m ...
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W4050
22.05.2011
Dublin book project. - leo Morrissey
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Books are the source material for my work; I propose to create a series of cut-books influenced on my stay in Dublin. Irelands great literary tradition and the importance of text, language, and history in my work makes Dublin an ideal place for me to crea ...
Books are the source material for my work; I propose to create a series of cut-books influenced on my stay in Dublin. Irelands great literary tradition and the importance of text, language, and history in my work makes Dublin an ideal place for me to crea ...
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W4804
07.08.2012
1st Draft - Yoshiko Shimada
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"1st Draft", 3"59, Video. Perceptions of thought prompted through language may also be translated to language molding our perceptions of time. The concept of time through language interested me because people always speak of “living in the present” ...
"1st Draft", 3"59, Video. Perceptions of thought prompted through language may also be translated to language molding our perceptions of time. The concept of time through language interested me because people always speak of “living in the present” ...
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W3638
14.05.2011
lynn hershman Leeson
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This piece reveals the biological system/internal workings of ballet dancers, particularly pregnant ones, who dance to the rhythm and sounds of their own blood stream and heartbeat. ...
This piece reveals the biological system/internal workings of ballet dancers, particularly pregnant ones, who dance to the rhythm and sounds of their own blood stream and heartbeat. ...
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W4207
24.05.2011
Power House - Sonja Benskin Mesher
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Ongoing series of paintings and drawing, a weekly diary, on my feelings about the Power House ...
Ongoing series of paintings and drawing, a weekly diary, on my feelings about the Power House ...
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W5462
21.10.2012
Danses - Kevin Evensen
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Danses is a single channel digital video, comprised of three pieces, looped together to create a linear digital tryptic. The sound is an electro acoustic digital piece performed and arranged by myself, based on Erik Satie's Gymnopodies. TITLE Danses ...
Danses is a single channel digital video, comprised of three pieces, looped together to create a linear digital tryptic. The sound is an electro acoustic digital piece performed and arranged by myself, based on Erik Satie's Gymnopodies. TITLE Danses ...
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W3747
18.05.2011
Modes of visibility - Nini Palavandishvili
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Often contemporary exhibition audience complain not to understand art and especially so-called conceptual art. This is specially problematic issue in Georgia, where general audience is not used to contemporary art. They ask themselves about the meaning of ...
Often contemporary exhibition audience complain not to understand art and especially so-called conceptual art. This is specially problematic issue in Georgia, where general audience is not used to contemporary art. They ask themselves about the meaning of ...
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W4209
24.05.2011
Monumentti Kutsunta - Will Foster
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Monumentti Kutsunta. Monument Conscription. 2003, Helsinki. Call a draft for individuals to become public Monuments for one hour. The underline concept can be seen in ‘One & Other’ a work later realised by Antony Gormley on the fourth plinth. ...
Monumentti Kutsunta. Monument Conscription. 2003, Helsinki. Call a draft for individuals to become public Monuments for one hour. The underline concept can be seen in ‘One & Other’ a work later realised by Antony Gormley on the fourth plinth. ...
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W4167
24.05.2011
Outopia - Eloise Kirk
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Outopia ‘Outopia’ (meaning no place) is an on-going, fragmented project based on a fictional landscape. This landscape is neither here nor there; it exists only as representation of the internal self, in perpetual relation with the world. ...
Outopia ‘Outopia’ (meaning no place) is an on-going, fragmented project based on a fictional landscape. This landscape is neither here nor there; it exists only as representation of the internal self, in perpetual relation with the world. ...
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W4881
09.08.2012
Re:Structure - David Goodman / Jay Paavonpera
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Re:Structure encourages investigation of imagery dismantled from architectonic relationships and urban structures. for this exhibition, we propose to create a unique multi-dimensional experience that acts to facilitate a principled understanding of our im ...
Re:Structure encourages investigation of imagery dismantled from architectonic relationships and urban structures. for this exhibition, we propose to create a unique multi-dimensional experience that acts to facilitate a principled understanding of our im ...
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W5201
03.10.2012
Alexander Rosenberg
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Part A: Illustrations (1-5 drawings) (see attached) Part B: Installation Title and Location: Title: “Apparatus for Celestial Observation and Introspection” Location: My first choice of location is one of the cells in cellblock 2 that has a ...
Part A: Illustrations (1-5 drawings) (see attached) Part B: Installation Title and Location: Title: “Apparatus for Celestial Observation and Introspection” Location: My first choice of location is one of the cells in cellblock 2 that has a ...
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W3727
17.05.2011
Achtung” (Watch out!)  - Doris Koch
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Since 1991, Doris Koch has been producing participatory projects in public spaces. In 2006, the project “Achtung” (Watch out!) was developed for the Stadtpark (city park) in Dessau in dialogue with the residents, and cancelled in Spring 2007. In the c ...
Since 1991, Doris Koch has been producing participatory projects in public spaces. In 2006, the project “Achtung” (Watch out!) was developed for the Stadtpark (city park) in Dessau in dialogue with the residents, and cancelled in Spring 2007. In the c ...
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