I call my "ice actions", consisting in placing objects in principal downtown squares, the Monuments of Time. I find this title appropriately noble, considering in whose honor they are erected. In each case, I seek an adequate form to celebrate time as wel
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I call my "ice actions", consisting in placing objects in principal downtown squares, the Monuments of Time. I find this title appropriately noble, considering in whose honor they are erected. In each case, I seek an adequate form to celebrate time as wel
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The Circumference is Everywhere, 2011
100 miles Northeast of Los Angeles in the Mojave Desert lies a city abandoned in advance of itself, a ruin that is an aerial monument to misguided optimism that was conceived of by Nat Mendelsohn and intended to r
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The Circumference is Everywhere, 2011
100 miles Northeast of Los Angeles in the Mojave Desert lies a city abandoned in advance of itself, a ruin that is an aerial monument to misguided optimism that was conceived of by Nat Mendelsohn and intended to r
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Transitional Monument (2004).
Digital montage.
Dimensions variable.
Transitional Monument was made as a proposal for a public artwork. The two images show photos of a now demolished sixties tower block, Linosa Close, Liverpool, with William Morris d
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Transitional Monument (2004).
Digital montage.
Dimensions variable.
Transitional Monument was made as a proposal for a public artwork. The two images show photos of a now demolished sixties tower block, Linosa Close, Liverpool, with William Morris d
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d'un projet dédié aux victimes de la Shoah. - Christian Boltanski
Unbuilt Roads
Il y a quelques années, j'ai éte invité à réfléchir à la réalisation d'un projet dédié aux victimes de la Shoah. Ce monument devait être installé en face du Reichstag à Berlin. J'avais répondu alors que je pensais que les monuments étaient
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Il y a quelques années, j'ai éte invité à réfléchir à la réalisation d'un projet dédié aux victimes de la Shoah. Ce monument devait être installé en face du Reichstag à Berlin. J'avais répondu alors que je pensais que les monuments étaient
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Place Jacques-Cartier, Montréal 1990 (with Tony Fretton) - Mark Pimlott
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This project proposed a monumental surface for Place Jacques-Cartier that resembled the streets an unconscious places that were typical of Montréal’s topography. The ground was conceived of as a portion of the granite shield that the city is built on,
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This project proposed a monumental surface for Place Jacques-Cartier that resembled the streets an unconscious places that were typical of Montréal’s topography. The ground was conceived of as a portion of the granite shield that the city is built on,
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Sculpture Center In Practice - Kristin Jones / Andrew Ginzel
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KRISTIN JONES / ANDREW GINZEL
Sculpture Center In Practice
PROPOSAL
In the open-air volume of the garden courtyard adjacent to the mass of the main building we propose to draw three precise geometries that the site itself suggests: Two planes of pa
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KRISTIN JONES / ANDREW GINZEL
Sculpture Center In Practice
PROPOSAL
In the open-air volume of the garden courtyard adjacent to the mass of the main building we propose to draw three precise geometries that the site itself suggests: Two planes of pa
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Conservative estimates are that over one hundred thousand men, women, and children died in the Iraq War. Weapons of mass destruction that were used as justification for this illegal war were launched by the Americans and the British forces themselves. The
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Conservative estimates are that over one hundred thousand men, women, and children died in the Iraq War. Weapons of mass destruction that were used as justification for this illegal war were launched by the Americans and the British forces themselves. The
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Central Park Monument to the Nimbus of Victory, 2009 - Peter Joslyn
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The monument is one of a series of proposals for large scale public sculptures to celebrate the visionary nature of the artist. The aim is to bring to the world an understanding of the artists point of view by providing the spectacular, and by sharing the
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The monument is one of a series of proposals for large scale public sculptures to celebrate the visionary nature of the artist. The aim is to bring to the world an understanding of the artists point of view by providing the spectacular, and by sharing the
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The Geese of Feliferhof - Esther Shalev-Gerz with Jochen Gerz
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Graz, Austria
In 1996, Esther Shalev-Gerz and Jochen Gerz won an international competition launched by the Austrian government to pay tribute to those who opposed the Nazi regime. The artists proposed installing four white flags carrying red inscriptio
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Graz, Austria
In 1996, Esther Shalev-Gerz and Jochen Gerz won an international competition launched by the Austrian government to pay tribute to those who opposed the Nazi regime. The artists proposed installing four white flags carrying red inscriptio
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1964-66
Two Lower Manhattan Wrapped Buildings, Project for New York, U.S.A.
1967
Wrapped Galleria Nazionale, Project for Rome, Italy.
Ponte Sant' Angelo Wrapped, Project for Rome, Italy.
Wrapped Trees, Project for Washington Pa
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1964-66
Two Lower Manhattan Wrapped Buildings, Project for New York, U.S.A.
1967
Wrapped Galleria Nazionale, Project for Rome, Italy.
Ponte Sant' Angelo Wrapped, Project for Rome, Italy.
Wrapped Trees, Project for Washington Pa
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Convention' was an unsolicited, and as I found out in March of this year, unaccepted proposal to the promoters of the Toronto International Art Fair.
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Convention' was an unsolicited, and as I found out in March of this year, unaccepted proposal to the promoters of the Toronto International Art Fair.
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La scultura doveva essere posata davanti alla nuova ala del parlamento olandese di Den Haag. Sono partito dalla struttura ampia, di grande presenza, degll fumaioli che si vedevano sui tetto del vecchio parlamento. Questa strutture architectonica era diven
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La scultura doveva essere posata davanti alla nuova ala del parlamento olandese di Den Haag. Sono partito dalla struttura ampia, di grande presenza, degll fumaioli che si vedevano sui tetto del vecchio parlamento. Questa strutture architectonica era diven
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Solar City Tower for Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics - Rafael Schmidt, RAFAA
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International Architecture Competition for the Olympic Games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.
„The project under consideration should be located in the bay of the city of Rio de Janeiro on the Cotonduba Island, which is the obligatory approach for aircraft la
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International Architecture Competition for the Olympic Games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.
„The project under consideration should be located in the bay of the city of Rio de Janeiro on the Cotonduba Island, which is the obligatory approach for aircraft la
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Monument for bridges.
Visuals of a monumental sculpture to be made out of the remains of two countryside bridges. A road of about 20 kilometres long was rebuild. Therefore as much as 50 bridges accessing the farmlands where taken apart and demolished.
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Monument for bridges.
Visuals of a monumental sculpture to be made out of the remains of two countryside bridges. A road of about 20 kilometres long was rebuild. Therefore as much as 50 bridges accessing the farmlands where taken apart and demolished.
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proposal for the 2010 Spitalfields Sculpture Prize
Downriver further develops my established practice of making ‘dissected’ map sculptures. Previously, I have taken actual source maps and cut away everything from them except one particular visual e
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proposal for the 2010 Spitalfields Sculpture Prize
Downriver further develops my established practice of making ‘dissected’ map sculptures. Previously, I have taken actual source maps and cut away everything from them except one particular visual e
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The “freedom and democracy monument” is designed in the shape of an oversized transparent round table: People make use of the elements of that round table by their presence and help bring life into it.The round table is the symbol of the democratic id
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The “freedom and democracy monument” is designed in the shape of an oversized transparent round table: People make use of the elements of that round table by their presence and help bring life into it.The round table is the symbol of the democratic id
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FOTA (Festival of the Arts) 2010 APPLICATION
Title of Project: Free to Choose
Name: Erik Wenzel
Location: The Chicago Theological Seminary
Duration: Installed for the length of FOTA, subject to CTS schedule
STATEMENT
I propose to make a
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FOTA (Festival of the Arts) 2010 APPLICATION
Title of Project: Free to Choose
Name: Erik Wenzel
Location: The Chicago Theological Seminary
Duration: Installed for the length of FOTA, subject to CTS schedule
STATEMENT
I propose to make a
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Building Of a Heterogeneous Space of the Disappearance - Daniel Castellanos Reyes
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Building Of An Heterogeneous Space Of The Disappearance will be an ephemeral construction shaped as one of the present balconies in what it used to be the Gebäude Des Reichsstatthalters Und Der Gauleitung.
This proposal pretends to make an historical
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Building Of An Heterogeneous Space Of The Disappearance will be an ephemeral construction shaped as one of the present balconies in what it used to be the Gebäude Des Reichsstatthalters Und Der Gauleitung.
This proposal pretends to make an historical
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World Trade Center Memorial Proposal - Stephen Canneto
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The design honors and celebrates the lives of those killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The figurative road to healing begins with a literal journey, with the soaring zenith of the Memorial Spire catching the eye of newly arriving visitors,
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The design honors and celebrates the lives of those killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The figurative road to healing begins with a literal journey, with the soaring zenith of the Memorial Spire catching the eye of newly arriving visitors,
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On cherche à la lumière ce que l'on a perdu dans le noir - Nadine Lère
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Mon projet est de construire et d’installer un dispositif éclairant, une source de lumière propre à voir. Le dispositif, un espace pénétrable, prend la fonction de point d’attraction, comme un phare. Il se veut être un point de repère, de rasse
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Mon projet est de construire et d’installer un dispositif éclairant, une source de lumière propre à voir. Le dispositif, un espace pénétrable, prend la fonction de point d’attraction, comme un phare. Il se veut être un point de repère, de rasse
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Minaret Project
‘What is absolutely crucial for me is the relationship between the work, a real work in real space, and the body. One can hardly discuss a project’s impact on the public sphere if the project is not physically there, if everyone onl
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Minaret Project
‘What is absolutely crucial for me is the relationship between the work, a real work in real space, and the body. One can hardly discuss a project’s impact on the public sphere if the project is not physically there, if everyone onl
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A patinated plaster sculpture marble natural scale, contains two characters, the first is a riot police in position conqueror in one hand have a coat of riot police and the other as if it were a weapon, a piece of post and finally this a video surveillanc
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A patinated plaster sculpture marble natural scale, contains two characters, the first is a riot police in position conqueror in one hand have a coat of riot police and the other as if it were a weapon, a piece of post and finally this a video surveillanc
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Prototype of an opportunistic monument or a monument on call - Sylvie Boisseau
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Prototype of an opportunistic monument or a monument on call
(in memory of the Stasi* victims)
The monument consist of an orthogonal concrete block of 200 x 150 x 50 cm which is embedded under the ground, It should be erected at places where the orig
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Prototype of an opportunistic monument or a monument on call
(in memory of the Stasi* victims)
The monument consist of an orthogonal concrete block of 200 x 150 x 50 cm which is embedded under the ground, It should be erected at places where the orig
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