Agency of Unrealised Projects
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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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The insurer - Fabrice Hybert

Broadway Musicals - Christian Marclay

NON REALIZED PROJECTS - Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Project 1 + Project 2 - Simryn Gill

A House of Dust - Alison Knowles

The Clock - Ayse Erkmen

La Guerra De Los Simbolos - Victor Grippo

Jake and Dinos Chapman's five proposals for an empty plinth situated on central londons trafalgar square - Jake and Dinos Chapman

PROPOSAL FOR SEATTLE ARTS COMMISSION, IN PUBLIC - Chris Burden

The World Record - General Idea

Agency of Unrealised Projects
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W3564
12.05.2011
Das Kapital - Marcello Mercado
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Das Kapital: http://www.marcellomercado.com/html/videoart/index.html "Marcello Mercado’s Capital is neither a finished product nor artware. His Capital is a work-in-progress. It will not be finished until the artist no longer believes in it or when ...
Das Kapital: http://www.marcellomercado.com/html/videoart/index.html "Marcello Mercado’s Capital is neither a finished product nor artware. His Capital is a work-in-progress. It will not be finished until the artist no longer believes in it or when ...
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W5021
31.08.2012
Speakers Platform - Dimitris Dokatzis
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SPEAKERS’ PLATFORM Concept of work ‘SPEAKERS’ PLATFORM’ is inspired by the protests that took place in Athens in the summer of 2011 across Syntagma (Constitution) Square. The protesters, known as “disappointed citizens”, in line with t ...
SPEAKERS’ PLATFORM Concept of work ‘SPEAKERS’ PLATFORM’ is inspired by the protests that took place in Athens in the summer of 2011 across Syntagma (Constitution) Square. The protesters, known as “disappointed citizens”, in line with t ...
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W3552
12.05.2011
THE SECOND LIFE MARTYRS SHOW! - margherita isola
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Thanks an experience of life at the Freedom Theatre of Jenin with the kids of the refugee camp, I decide to start this project about Palestinian people and their martyrs. The Second Life martyrs show!is an alternative utopia to the violence that people ...
Thanks an experience of life at the Freedom Theatre of Jenin with the kids of the refugee camp, I decide to start this project about Palestinian people and their martyrs. The Second Life martyrs show!is an alternative utopia to the violence that people ...
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W4836
08.08.2012
1000 Alexandras - Zoran Poposki
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Made up of randomly chosen female names found on social networks of current citizens of Skopje named Alexandra, "1000 Alexandras" is conceived as a multimedia monument to all Alexandras currently living in Skopje, Macedonia. ...
Made up of randomly chosen female names found on social networks of current citizens of Skopje named Alexandra, "1000 Alexandras" is conceived as a multimedia monument to all Alexandras currently living in Skopje, Macedonia. ...
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W5366
19.10.2012
Dorit Feldman, Orna Oren Izraeli and Na'ama Zussman
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Three artists explore and forge different interactions that exist in the real world and project them onto their surfaces. This is a proposal that suggests a unique practice of the library, on its books, ephemera and other objects of use, as if they w ...
Three artists explore and forge different interactions that exist in the real world and project them onto their surfaces. This is a proposal that suggests a unique practice of the library, on its books, ephemera and other objects of use, as if they w ...
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W5208
04.10.2012
Lure - Noa Nahari
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Noa Nahari Name: Lure Year: 2013/4 Neo Marxism claims the media are a tool to handle capitalistic power that wishes to exploit the working class to earn more money. For example, communication channels will produce programs that specifically attract a ...
Noa Nahari Name: Lure Year: 2013/4 Neo Marxism claims the media are a tool to handle capitalistic power that wishes to exploit the working class to earn more money. For example, communication channels will produce programs that specifically attract a ...
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W4403
25.05.2011
Landscape Follies - Eleanna Horiti
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Landscape Follies A series that involves the creation of ‘new’ unnatural imaginary landscapes through a series of actions, such as excavations, exposure of strata and the creation of fake elements using natural materials. ...
Landscape Follies A series that involves the creation of ‘new’ unnatural imaginary landscapes through a series of actions, such as excavations, exposure of strata and the creation of fake elements using natural materials. ...
W3811
18.05.2011
Surgical Intervention (Intervençao cirurgica) - Kelly Tavares
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English translation from Portuguese: This project is still underway. It started to be developed in Brasil, in 2007. The work has the modular unit, consisting of “cubificated” photographs cased in an acrylic transparent cube that is turned into art ...
English translation from Portuguese: This project is still underway. It started to be developed in Brasil, in 2007. The work has the modular unit, consisting of “cubificated” photographs cased in an acrylic transparent cube that is turned into art ...
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W5250
10.10.2012
the candy cottage - Marisa Dipaola
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As a child fascinated by storybook worlds, I found the Brothers’ Grimm “Hansel and Gretel” to be one of the most enchanting tales, especially the children’s discovery of the woodland candy cottage. Although built by a witch, as a sculptor, I have ...
As a child fascinated by storybook worlds, I found the Brothers’ Grimm “Hansel and Gretel” to be one of the most enchanting tales, especially the children’s discovery of the woodland candy cottage. Although built by a witch, as a sculptor, I have ...
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W4082
23.05.2011
Mohamed Ibrahim Elmasry
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Book is based on Arabic calligraphy and images to produce a book works on notice of the Heritage Logistic requirements Human resources:- This includes the job titles and job description The model:- We will contact a various number of actors, act ...
Book is based on Arabic calligraphy and images to produce a book works on notice of the Heritage Logistic requirements Human resources:- This includes the job titles and job description The model:- We will contact a various number of actors, act ...
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W10410
07.04.2014
Reverse Lecture Series - VIIIC KEER OSSTTAPPPH
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During the reverse lecture series, there will be one audience member as everyone else simultaneously delivers a speech from behind a lectern. ...
During the reverse lecture series, there will be one audience member as everyone else simultaneously delivers a speech from behind a lectern. ...
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W4161
23.05.2011
Failure - Pauline Hanson
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http://www.severalpursuits.org/?pageid=72 http://www.severalpursuits.org/?pageid=78 ...
http://www.severalpursuits.org/?pageid=72 http://www.severalpursuits.org/?pageid=78 ...
W5425
20.10.2012
Peace State of aWareness - Mo Abd-Ulla
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Is peace an exceptional state? Is it fact that war breeds another war? Is war an inevitable destiny of mankind? This is a public art intervention working with and around the war monuments in London within global context of war and peace. Aiming to fr ...
Is peace an exceptional state? Is it fact that war breeds another war? Is war an inevitable destiny of mankind? This is a public art intervention working with and around the war monuments in London within global context of war and peace. Aiming to fr ...
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W5184
30.09.2012
Relative Music - Augustin Maurs
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RELATIVE MUSIC An unrealized economy, by Augustin Maurs À propos unrealized projects, it could be amusing to consider that, in the perspective of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, almost the totality of the music written in the western cultures f ...
RELATIVE MUSIC An unrealized economy, by Augustin Maurs À propos unrealized projects, it could be amusing to consider that, in the perspective of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, almost the totality of the music written in the western cultures f ...
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W3751
18.05.2011
A FIRED FIELD - HECTOR MAVRIDIS
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The action of breaking and turning over earth with a plow always fascinated me, the clods of earth being the result of this action, a simple 'gesture' from a machine which nevertheless brings about a dramatic change to the landscape, an awesome ephemeral ...
The action of breaking and turning over earth with a plow always fascinated me, the clods of earth being the result of this action, a simple 'gesture' from a machine which nevertheless brings about a dramatic change to the landscape, an awesome ephemeral ...
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W3698
16.05.2011
Future Studies - Javier Fresneda
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About Future Studies is a process of iconographic and structural relationships across time and space. This series of images begins as an ironic adaptation of archaeological anastylosis concept; the technique of reconstruction of a monument i ...
About Future Studies is a process of iconographic and structural relationships across time and space. This series of images begins as an ironic adaptation of archaeological anastylosis concept; the technique of reconstruction of a monument i ...
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W4952
20.08.2012
made in america asembled in mexico - Paul Valadez
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We will carry pieces of artwork created in Texas into Mexico where we will then hand assemble the work at a yet to be determined rented space. The artwork being brought into Mexico consists of 500 works on wood, metal, paper and other found objects. Th ...
We will carry pieces of artwork created in Texas into Mexico where we will then hand assemble the work at a yet to be determined rented space. The artwork being brought into Mexico consists of 500 works on wood, metal, paper and other found objects. Th ...
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W4842
08.08.2012
Hanan Shlonsky
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An internet-art project, in which single socks from the first world are collected and sent to third-world countries infested with land-mines. This project will utilize both internet and regular mail. 1 My aunt had to have a Stool Examination. She ...
An internet-art project, in which single socks from the first world are collected and sent to third-world countries infested with land-mines. This project will utilize both internet and regular mail. 1 My aunt had to have a Stool Examination. She ...
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W4393
25.05.2011
Ground Control - Sylvia Schwenk
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SYLVIA SCHWENK PROJECT CONCEPT STATEMENT Ground Control is a work of participatory performance art that will be presented in two stages. The first stage will be a live performance that will take place at night-time by everyday-people-cum-performers ...
SYLVIA SCHWENK PROJECT CONCEPT STATEMENT Ground Control is a work of participatory performance art that will be presented in two stages. The first stage will be a live performance that will take place at night-time by everyday-people-cum-performers ...
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W4320
24.05.2011
Unrealized Project Title: Found Object: Robert Allen  - Antoinette LaFarge
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Unrealized Project Title: Found Object: Robert Allen Initially proposed: 1991 Artist: Antoinette LaFarge Please refer to the accompanying JPEG from the original proposal. One day in 1991, I came across a flyer for a juried exhibition entitled “ ...
Unrealized Project Title: Found Object: Robert Allen Initially proposed: 1991 Artist: Antoinette LaFarge Please refer to the accompanying JPEG from the original proposal. One day in 1991, I came across a flyer for a juried exhibition entitled “ ...
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W3820
19.05.2011
ArtPOTLATCH - Exhibition as Test Lab/ Art as Gift - Rebecca Keller
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POTLATCH A potlatch is a tradition carried on by many NW coast Indian tribes. The chief would celebrate a significant event (birth, marriage) by hosting a Potlatch. A huge feast would be provided, and gifts such as blankets, etc. would be given to the ...
POTLATCH A potlatch is a tradition carried on by many NW coast Indian tribes. The chief would celebrate a significant event (birth, marriage) by hosting a Potlatch. A huge feast would be provided, and gifts such as blankets, etc. would be given to the ...
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W10332
17.04.2014
FOR ALL MANKIND - Lisa Rovner
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"For all mankind" is a series of large scale poems that can be seen from above, anywhere, anytime, through programs such as Google Earth. The first in the series screams: BECAUSE I AM HUMAN AND I NEED TO BE LOVED. The poem answers an unknown question. ...
"For all mankind" is a series of large scale poems that can be seen from above, anywhere, anytime, through programs such as Google Earth. The first in the series screams: BECAUSE I AM HUMAN AND I NEED TO BE LOVED. The poem answers an unknown question. ...
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W4367
25.05.2011
Trace  - Thessia Machado
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Trace An interactive installation that allows the viewers to be part of a collaboration with previous visitors and the architecture of the exhibition space. A continuous record of people’s motion through space that engenders dynamic drawings and sound ...
Trace An interactive installation that allows the viewers to be part of a collaboration with previous visitors and the architecture of the exhibition space. A continuous record of people’s motion through space that engenders dynamic drawings and sound ...
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W4487
25.05.2011
lori brown
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The wificommune is a retro-fitted environmentally sustainable bus providing social services for the Seneca Nation communities in Upstate New York. Using solar power as a source of energy, this bus is designed to provide internet connections, a classroom ...
The wificommune is a retro-fitted environmentally sustainable bus providing social services for the Seneca Nation communities in Upstate New York. Using solar power as a source of energy, this bus is designed to provide internet connections, a classroom ...
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W3584
13.05.2011
Proposal to an open call for the 2011 Emdash Award - Boris Dornbusch
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The following project was a proposal to an open call for the 2011 Emdash Award. However, it is an idea I have developed in response to any Art Fair: A smaller-scale replica of the Frieze's exhibition tent is pitched in the exhibition pavilion. ...
The following project was a proposal to an open call for the 2011 Emdash Award. However, it is an idea I have developed in response to any Art Fair: A smaller-scale replica of the Frieze's exhibition tent is pitched in the exhibition pavilion. ...
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W4026
22.05.2011
Lucia Cullinane Garcia
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Paintings made with mainly acrylics and mix media, such a 3d effects on them. Stunning to look at and very provocative. Public in general love them and they always attract loads of attention. Different, unique and original they have been descrived. Lu ...
Paintings made with mainly acrylics and mix media, such a 3d effects on them. Stunning to look at and very provocative. Public in general love them and they always attract loads of attention. Different, unique and original they have been descrived. Lu ...
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