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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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Brücke Wein-Kanal Arch. Hermann Czech, Wein - Franz West

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

Why New Worlds Conceived by Artists Do Not Get Built - Peter Fend

Proposal for a permanent video installation for the NYC headquarters of Sony Corporation - Dara Birnbaum

Eislandschaft - P. Fischli und D. Weiss

Dog Jaw Monument - A Futurist Tele-introject - Leon Golub

PROJEKT - Ulrich Rückreim

PROPOSALl + VOORSTEL - Guillame Bijl

"Free Space" - Michelangelo Pistoletto

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

Agency of Unrealised Projects
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W4667
25.05.2011
"The Orchestra" - Alex Robbins
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"The Orchestra" is an idea for an outdoor exhibition structure. Embodying the circular movement of the process of exhibition, "The Orchestra" describes a mentality that may only be overcome by its physical realization. Made from Rainbow Sandstone, a mater ...
"The Orchestra" is an idea for an outdoor exhibition structure. Embodying the circular movement of the process of exhibition, "The Orchestra" describes a mentality that may only be overcome by its physical realization. Made from Rainbow Sandstone, a mater ...
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W4241
24.05.2011
Atsunobu KOHIRA
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Le projet que je propose est une installation sonore dans un paysage naturel qui reprend le fonctionnement d’une horloge. Le jour commence et finit par la cloche de l’église, ou le temple qui indique les horaires tous les jours dans la vie quoti ...
Le projet que je propose est une installation sonore dans un paysage naturel qui reprend le fonctionnement d’une horloge. Le jour commence et finit par la cloche de l’église, ou le temple qui indique les horaires tous les jours dans la vie quoti ...
W5088
10.09.2012
Reversed Tower of Babel - Jacek Dziubiński
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Jacek Dziubiński REVERSED TOWER OF BABEL PLACE: Platz der Republik, Berlin, Germany IDEA: As described in the Bible (Genesis), for an attempt to enter the heaven and the sin of pride God mixed up languages of builders of the Tower of Babel. A ...
Jacek Dziubiński REVERSED TOWER OF BABEL PLACE: Platz der Republik, Berlin, Germany IDEA: As described in the Bible (Genesis), for an attempt to enter the heaven and the sin of pride God mixed up languages of builders of the Tower of Babel. A ...
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W4397
25.05.2011
Flâneur - konstantinos-antonios goutos / the[video]Flâneu®
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PROJECT [video]Flâneu® The artist walks like a „Flâneur“ through the city. He does not have a turtle with him (as the original Parisian Flâneur of the 1830‘s used to); later, he does not write stories (as Edgar Allan Poe or Hans Christian Ande ...
PROJECT [video]Flâneu® The artist walks like a „Flâneur“ through the city. He does not have a turtle with him (as the original Parisian Flâneur of the 1830‘s used to); later, he does not write stories (as Edgar Allan Poe or Hans Christian Ande ...
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W3476
11.05.2011
Works of Denisa Lehocká - Denisa Lehocka
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Born 1971 in Trencin, SK, Lives and works in Bratislava, SK Works of Denisa Lehocká association, imagination, intuition, subconscioussness, shape, question-mark, vessel, plate, bowl, container, vase, bin, hoppit, pot, receptacle, utensil, dish, tray, ...
Born 1971 in Trencin, SK, Lives and works in Bratislava, SK Works of Denisa Lehocká association, imagination, intuition, subconscioussness, shape, question-mark, vessel, plate, bowl, container, vase, bin, hoppit, pot, receptacle, utensil, dish, tray, ...
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W4276
24.05.2011
Proposal for the New Jersey State Aquarium - Kristin Jones / Andrew Ginzel
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Proposal for the New Jersey State Aquarium Camden, New Jersey ...
Proposal for the New Jersey State Aquarium Camden, New Jersey ...
W4792
13.06.2011
No Flag Long Enough - Santiago Pinyol
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NO FLAG LONG ENOUGH Flags are not meant to touch the floor, everybody knows that. Flags are meant to be weaved, to be watched, to preside. The intervention proposed to bring the flags down from their vertical order into the horizontal one, connecti ...
NO FLAG LONG ENOUGH Flags are not meant to touch the floor, everybody knows that. Flags are meant to be weaved, to be watched, to preside. The intervention proposed to bring the flags down from their vertical order into the horizontal one, connecti ...
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W4581
25.05.2011
Oasis Project Proposal  - Carrie Paterson
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Image 1 Oasis Project Proposal circa 2002-2004 Drawings show a device for water collection, condensation, and purification connected by ‘stem’ to an underground storage tank, accessed via a tap that operates with a pressure pump to retrieve wate ...
Image 1 Oasis Project Proposal circa 2002-2004 Drawings show a device for water collection, condensation, and purification connected by ‘stem’ to an underground storage tank, accessed via a tap that operates with a pressure pump to retrieve wate ...
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W5107
14.09.2012
Eli Skipp
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This project requires an indoor climbing wall of significant width and height (minimum 40' x 65'). A route setter will be hired to climb and lay out climbing holds and place climbing tape to mark the route (color is up to the setter, but yellow is prefer ...
This project requires an indoor climbing wall of significant width and height (minimum 40' x 65'). A route setter will be hired to climb and lay out climbing holds and place climbing tape to mark the route (color is up to the setter, but yellow is prefer ...
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W4326
24.05.2011
Becoming a Tree - Malin Stahl
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Malin Ståhl: Becoming a Tree Inside of me there is a wish to Become a Tree, to stand very still and serenely let my my branches wave in the wind. I made my first attempt at Becoming a Tree in 1999 shielding my naked body with the bark of a spruce tree ...
Malin Ståhl: Becoming a Tree Inside of me there is a wish to Become a Tree, to stand very still and serenely let my my branches wave in the wind. I made my first attempt at Becoming a Tree in 1999 shielding my naked body with the bark of a spruce tree ...
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W3976
21.05.2011
Batya cavens
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My body of work investigates, probes and puts to the test the boundaries of fine art. The concept is: traversing those formal academic and established definitions, and reaching into the academy of the street . ...
My body of work investigates, probes and puts to the test the boundaries of fine art. The concept is: traversing those formal academic and established definitions, and reaching into the academy of the street . ...
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W3870
19.05.2011
Small room of expression - erik mavrič
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Description of the project The idea of the project is making structures that are based on the interference between the flat surface and light source. An intense light will be directed at the surface which will be positioned against the wall. The projec ...
Description of the project The idea of the project is making structures that are based on the interference between the flat surface and light source. An intense light will be directed at the surface which will be positioned against the wall. The projec ...
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W5166
25.09.2012
Theoretical Earth ... - John Andrew
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This written work is a brief text scenario presenting an alternate reality for genuine observers: Theoretical Earth … If Sun Ra had been given the attention and opportunity instead of Elvis. ...
This written work is a brief text scenario presenting an alternate reality for genuine observers: Theoretical Earth … If Sun Ra had been given the attention and opportunity instead of Elvis. ...
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W4806
07.08.2012
We Don't Even Know How to End This Misery - Kristin Tårnes
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The text is the voiceover of a film I made about an unrealized collaborative project while I was an exchange student in Berlin in 2007. The two images are stills from the same film. Even though the original project was unrealized, a work about the unreali ...
The text is the voiceover of a film I made about an unrealized collaborative project while I was an exchange student in Berlin in 2007. The two images are stills from the same film. Even though the original project was unrealized, a work about the unreali ...
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U9798
01.01.1972
Prima del 73 - Fabio Mauri
Unbuilt Roads
see my letter (eventually reasons why the work has not been realised) Anxiety Previous Publications (?) This thing is mentioned in "Fabio Mauri Opere e Azioni 1954-1994" Giorgio Mondadori Ed. Exisiting Documents (photos, drawings, models): ...
see my letter (eventually reasons why the work has not been realised) Anxiety Previous Publications (?) This thing is mentioned in "Fabio Mauri Opere e Azioni 1954-1994" Giorgio Mondadori Ed. Exisiting Documents (photos, drawings, models): ...
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W5031
31.08.2012
If Wishes Were... - Ian Amell
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"If Wishes Were..." was my proposal for a Public Realm sculpture based on the readily understood (in North America) practice at Christmas and Easter of wishing on the neck bone of the turkey eaten at these family feasts. Venice has its “Bridge of Si ...
"If Wishes Were..." was my proposal for a Public Realm sculpture based on the readily understood (in North America) practice at Christmas and Easter of wishing on the neck bone of the turkey eaten at these family feasts. Venice has its “Bridge of Si ...
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W3712
17.05.2011
A higher place, London 1998 (project) - Mark Pimlott
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At Royal Docks, a series of parallel bands of different kinds of space and different kinds of use run alongside the existing dock. The dock was designed as a piece of infrastructure, orchestrating and rationalising the activities that took place anlongsid ...
At Royal Docks, a series of parallel bands of different kinds of space and different kinds of use run alongside the existing dock. The dock was designed as a piece of infrastructure, orchestrating and rationalising the activities that took place anlongsid ...
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W4917
15.08.2012
Oxford Toilet Exchange - Katie Herzog
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Oxford Toilet Exchange My proposed exchange will be facilitated via the swapping of doors in the stalls of the public toilet at the Oxford University Library with stall doors in the Oxford Public Library. Library Toilet as Final Frontier: On Reject ...
Oxford Toilet Exchange My proposed exchange will be facilitated via the swapping of doors in the stalls of the public toilet at the Oxford University Library with stall doors in the Oxford Public Library. Library Toilet as Final Frontier: On Reject ...
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W5259
12.10.2012
Kusmi Tea Sweet Love - Rosana Sancin
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Kusmi Tea Sweet Love Concept and Location:. The project Kusmi Tea Sweet Love is a collaboration between a curator, lawyer, architect and a filmmaker based on the research conducted in Lisbon's multicultural ...
Kusmi Tea Sweet Love Concept and Location:. The project Kusmi Tea Sweet Love is a collaboration between a curator, lawyer, architect and a filmmaker based on the research conducted in Lisbon's multicultural ...
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W5056
03.09.2012
School of Pharmacy in Sevilla - Taller Basico de Arquitectura [TBA]
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School of Pharmacy in Sevilla (2011) We propose to build a new public space, a place opened to students and visitors, a room for the city. This room recreates an enclosed space, a courtyard. The new public space is affected by movements and pedestrian ...
School of Pharmacy in Sevilla (2011) We propose to build a new public space, a place opened to students and visitors, a room for the city. This room recreates an enclosed space, a courtyard. The new public space is affected by movements and pedestrian ...
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W3613
13.05.2011
DINEDROMOSCOPE - Francesco Spampinato
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Dinedromoscope (from Greek: δινη, “vortex”, δρομοs, “run” e σkοπη, “to examine”) PLAN A Dinedromoscope is a project destined to the involvement of the visitors of the Guggenheim Museum, New York, who are invited to throw thems ...
Dinedromoscope (from Greek: δινη, “vortex”, δρομοs, “run” e σkοπη, “to examine”) PLAN A Dinedromoscope is a project destined to the involvement of the visitors of the Guggenheim Museum, New York, who are invited to throw thems ...
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W3851
19.05.2011
John Miserendino
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a hot air balloon shaped like an inverted empire state building. ...
a hot air balloon shaped like an inverted empire state building. ...
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W4429
25.05.2011
The Snow Leopard Garden - Yutaka Sone
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Yutaka Sone The Snow Leopard Garden Project for the wood of sculptures of Vassivière island, France July 2009 In the meadow, in the front of the Centre international d’art et du paysage and the dam In the framework of his solo exhibition for t ...
Yutaka Sone The Snow Leopard Garden Project for the wood of sculptures of Vassivière island, France July 2009 In the meadow, in the front of the Centre international d’art et du paysage and the dam In the framework of his solo exhibition for t ...
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W4515
25.05.2011
Viktor Timofeev
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In this painting I have "created" a triumphal arch constructed out of 13 worker-housing units, stacked precariously and defying the laws of physics. While this village/monument is rendered to appear structurally sound, its context is most certainly utopia ...
In this painting I have "created" a triumphal arch constructed out of 13 worker-housing units, stacked precariously and defying the laws of physics. While this village/monument is rendered to appear structurally sound, its context is most certainly utopia ...
W3814
19.05.2011
Caitlin Masley
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“…by remembering that cities are more than just habitats or geographical entities. They extend beyond networks of communication, commerce, sociality, or politics. Cities often exist in the form of memories and aspirations, and these cities are no less ...
“…by remembering that cities are more than just habitats or geographical entities. They extend beyond networks of communication, commerce, sociality, or politics. Cities often exist in the form of memories and aspirations, and these cities are no less ...
W4893
10.08.2012
Ben Sloat
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A chrome machine with cut out letters is in constant production of the word "sorry." Made of smoke, the word lingers for a moment, then quickly dissipates. ...
A chrome machine with cut out letters is in constant production of the word "sorry." Made of smoke, the word lingers for a moment, then quickly dissipates. ...
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