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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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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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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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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The project is the installation in the Antarctic Pole of an object, a magnet, an object that itself has a symbolic and enigmatic load.
The proposal is to install in the Antarctic territory a magnet horseshoe 1 m high by 60 cm base and 3 cm thick at it
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The project is the installation in the Antarctic Pole of an object, a magnet, an object that itself has a symbolic and enigmatic load.
The proposal is to install in the Antarctic territory a magnet horseshoe 1 m high by 60 cm base and 3 cm thick at it
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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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My design for the competition “Denkzeichen Rosa Luxemburg” (Memory Marker Rosa Luxemburg; Berlin 2003) drew upon the Revolution Monument by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, which was commissioned in 1926 by the German Communist Party as the central memorial
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My design for the competition “Denkzeichen Rosa Luxemburg” (Memory Marker Rosa Luxemburg; Berlin 2003) drew upon the Revolution Monument by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, which was commissioned in 1926 by the German Communist Party as the central memorial
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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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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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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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Large imaginary sculptures made of pasta strands. These non-existent structures are based on the "Wheatfields" body of work. "Wheatfields" are existent wall-mounted sculptures made of spaghetti and various kinds on noodles applied to wood.
"The Gate"
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Large imaginary sculptures made of pasta strands. These non-existent structures are based on the "Wheatfields" body of work. "Wheatfields" are existent wall-mounted sculptures made of spaghetti and various kinds on noodles applied to wood.
"The Gate"
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“Oil spill La Fenice” by KilMor Prod.
La Fenice
Teatro La Fenice is the biggest opera house in Venice, Italy and one of the most famous theatres in Europe. “La Fenice” means “The Phoenix”.
A phoenix is a mythical bird that is a fire spir
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“Oil spill La Fenice” by KilMor Prod.
La Fenice
Teatro La Fenice is the biggest opera house in Venice, Italy and one of the most famous theatres in Europe. “La Fenice” means “The Phoenix”.
A phoenix is a mythical bird that is a fire spir
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Project for the Initiative Mahnmal Homosexuellenverfolgung, Frankfurt - Jeff Wall
Unbuilt Roads
My monument would be a free-standing structure, a life-size open air cafe-terrace that the public could enter. It is a 12-sided ellipse with two entrances, and would be a careful recreation of such a place in a style typical of the 1920s. It would be made
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My monument would be a free-standing structure, a life-size open air cafe-terrace that the public could enter. It is a 12-sided ellipse with two entrances, and would be a careful recreation of such a place in a style typical of the 1920s. It would be made
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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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I'm here to write to offer my project, titled "Objekt. My work is centered above all on architecture and urban spaces.
I just need that on a construction site, harboring, in particular giving me a small space on the scaffold, a photo of variable size PVC
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I'm here to write to offer my project, titled "Objekt. My work is centered above all on architecture and urban spaces.
I just need that on a construction site, harboring, in particular giving me a small space on the scaffold, a photo of variable size PVC
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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