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 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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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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This Holocaust Memorial is comprised of two major elements: an above grade, open pavilion; a below grade, Sand Fall.
Although not immediately apparent, the disjunctive, stainless steel pavilion is constructed of components of the Star of David.
The
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This Holocaust Memorial is comprised of two major elements: an above grade, open pavilion; a below grade, Sand Fall.
Although not immediately apparent, the disjunctive, stainless steel pavilion is constructed of components of the Star of David.
The
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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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Proposal Rockaway 9/11 memorial Lisa Hein 2002
THE CUBE
A bleacher faces the water on Jamaica Bay. It watches the Manhattan skyline to the northwest. The center of the bleacher is cut out in a square. A black cube rises through.
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Proposal Rockaway 9/11 memorial Lisa Hein 2002
THE CUBE
A bleacher faces the water on Jamaica Bay. It watches the Manhattan skyline to the northwest. The center of the bleacher is cut out in a square. A black cube rises through.
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This proposal seeks to confront problems in the disciplines of art and architecture in an ecological age. (1) Our infrastructure and aesthetic culture does not attune itself to the ever present crisis of nuclear waste, the bi-product of nuclear energy, wh
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This proposal seeks to confront problems in the disciplines of art and architecture in an ecological age. (1) Our infrastructure and aesthetic culture does not attune itself to the ever present crisis of nuclear waste, the bi-product of nuclear energy, wh
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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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To Two Too; Hypothetical Monument for a Natural Disaster - Jeffrey Wisniewski
Unbuilt Roads
(222) steel, wire mesh containers, 'gitter boxes', half filled with architectural and cultural debris with other miscellaneous rubble
(22) solar panels with battery bank, etc. (solar system)
(6) LCD video projectors; video and live television
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(222) steel, wire mesh containers, 'gitter boxes', half filled with architectural and cultural debris with other miscellaneous rubble
(22) solar panels with battery bank, etc. (solar system)
(6) LCD video projectors; video and live television
broad
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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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Broken Monument
Mixed Media. 8x8x18cm. 2011.
Broken Monument takes part of a projects that I was working on for pleasure since 2001. While this works is comprised of a diferent of mediums, they do not aim to ladder up to a singular thesis. That sai
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Broken Monument
Mixed Media. 8x8x18cm. 2011.
Broken Monument takes part of a projects that I was working on for pleasure since 2001. While this works is comprised of a diferent of mediums, they do not aim to ladder up to a singular thesis. That sai
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Breakdown: A Prototypical Monument to the Open Road - John Landewe
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Proposal
John Landewe 152 Douglass St. Brooklyn, NY 917.676.950
Breakdown: A Prototypical Monument to the Open Road
Breakdown is a self-contained, nomadic monument dedicated to industrial-strength mobility and the acceleration of the postmodern c
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Proposal
John Landewe 152 Douglass St. Brooklyn, NY 917.676.950
Breakdown: A Prototypical Monument to the Open Road
Breakdown is a self-contained, nomadic monument dedicated to industrial-strength mobility and the acceleration of the postmodern c
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In March 2007 I was the artist in residence at the Department of Safety in Anacortes, WA, USA. Anacortes is a really small town. Partially out of frustration with me, my big city ways & my de-skilled & "post-conceptual" approach to the art task OLIVER ORI
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In March 2007 I was the artist in residence at the Department of Safety in Anacortes, WA, USA. Anacortes is a really small town. Partially out of frustration with me, my big city ways & my de-skilled & "post-conceptual" approach to the art task OLIVER ORI
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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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C.Q., 2010
honey jars, cosmetic containers, lipsticks, glue, mirror
C.Q. is a maquette study for a fantastical monument, a ‘Disney Palace on acid’, a tribute to Beauty. It is an arrangement of cosmetics that are used as pigments to add tones to
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C.Q., 2010
honey jars, cosmetic containers, lipsticks, glue, mirror
C.Q. is a maquette study for a fantastical monument, a ‘Disney Palace on acid’, a tribute to Beauty. It is an arrangement of cosmetics that are used as pigments to add tones to
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Dog Jaw Monument - A Futurist Tele-introject - Leon Golub
Unbuilt Roads
Years: A.D 2096, A.D. 2777, A.D. 3096
See drawing (to be submitted if desired)
note: time - 2096 - becoming a critical exponential extension of the artist's hand
(eventual reasons why the work has not been realised)
Project has not reached a cri
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Years: A.D 2096, A.D. 2777, A.D. 3096
See drawing (to be submitted if desired)
note: time - 2096 - becoming a critical exponential extension of the artist's hand
(eventual reasons why the work has not been realised)
Project has not reached a cri
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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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Monuments to Real Life
Monument 2. Twins
Digital Video installation research phase began Autumn 2008 in Nuertingen Germany and was aborted in May 2009.
Monument 2. ‘Twins’ is the unrealized sibling to Monument 1 ‘Well I Never…’ 2007(www.w
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Monuments to Real Life
Monument 2. Twins
Digital Video installation research phase began Autumn 2008 in Nuertingen Germany and was aborted in May 2009.
Monument 2. ‘Twins’ is the unrealized sibling to Monument 1 ‘Well I Never…’ 2007(www.w
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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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To the unknown Broker /
Tomb of the Unknown Broker
( Dem unbekannten Broker )
a monument about artistic vision as social comment
The installation (Tomb of an Unknown Broker) is dedicated to the virtual character of an Unidentified Broker. It highl
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To the unknown Broker /
Tomb of the Unknown Broker
( Dem unbekannten Broker )
a monument about artistic vision as social comment
The installation (Tomb of an Unknown Broker) is dedicated to the virtual character of an Unidentified Broker. It highl
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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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"In the Shadow of the Monument" 2009
PROPOSAL # 2
Images from the solo exhibition at Art Center Gävle, Sweden.
And a temporary public monument "In the shadow of the double" in City Hall Courtyard in the city of Gävle, Sweden.
more info
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"In the Shadow of the Monument" 2009
PROPOSAL # 2
Images from the solo exhibition at Art Center Gävle, Sweden.
And a temporary public monument "In the shadow of the double" in City Hall Courtyard in the city of Gävle, Sweden.
more info
http://a
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Early in 2008 I was planning a coloring action. There is a historical monument in Ljubljana called The Trail of Remembrance and Comradeship; consisting of a walkway almost ringing Ljubljana; its signposts bear the emblem of the red star. Over time, the re
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Early in 2008 I was planning a coloring action. There is a historical monument in Ljubljana called The Trail of Remembrance and Comradeship; consisting of a walkway almost ringing Ljubljana; its signposts bear the emblem of the red star. Over time, the re
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