The pyramids...to be seen to be believed - Jonathan Monk
Unbuilt Roads
Glasgow 1990
Cultural Capital of Europe
5 February 1990
Mr Jonathan Monk
22 Cecil Street
Hillhead
Glasgow G12 8RH
Dear Jonathan Monk
Thank you very much for your exciting letter concerning your proposed project for this year namely
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Glasgow 1990
Cultural Capital of Europe
5 February 1990
Mr Jonathan Monk
22 Cecil Street
Hillhead
Glasgow G12 8RH
Dear Jonathan Monk
Thank you very much for your exciting letter concerning your proposed project for this year namely
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Proposal: Inside Standing/Conversations with the Guardians of Art
Proposed to the Tate Modern, sent to Ben B. I meet and discussed this and screening of Critical Conversations in a Limo.
Guardians of Art
Museum guards are the human face
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Proposal: Inside Standing/Conversations with the Guardians of Art
Proposed to the Tate Modern, sent to Ben B. I meet and discussed this and screening of Critical Conversations in a Limo.
Guardians of Art
Museum guards are the human face
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The project entitled “Contingency Zone” consist of 12 flagpoles, measuring 600cm tall by 6.5cm of diameter, and twelve flags, measuring 220 cm by 100cm, stamped with the repeating pattern [in the colors black and yellow] of the “caution” tapes
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The project entitled “Contingency Zone” consist of 12 flagpoles, measuring 600cm tall by 6.5cm of diameter, and twelve flags, measuring 220 cm by 100cm, stamped with the repeating pattern [in the colors black and yellow] of the “caution” tapes
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Often contemporary exhibition audience complain not to understand art and especially so-called conceptual art. This is specially problematic issue in Georgia, where general audience is not used to contemporary art. They ask themselves about the meaning of
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Often contemporary exhibition audience complain not to understand art and especially so-called conceptual art. This is specially problematic issue in Georgia, where general audience is not used to contemporary art. They ask themselves about the meaning of
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I've had the idea for some time now of creating a viral YouTube video of tube/train/subway/bus passengers just missing their train/tube/bus. I tried filming a few times from within a train, hoping that some passengers would have the door closed on them be
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I've had the idea for some time now of creating a viral YouTube video of tube/train/subway/bus passengers just missing their train/tube/bus. I tried filming a few times from within a train, hoping that some passengers would have the door closed on them be
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Dear Hans-Ulrich,
Thank you for inviting me to participate in "Unbuilt Worlds - unrealized artist-projects". Sounds terrific.
In 1986 I was invited to participate in a program called "Messages to the Public". The invited artists would be given a 30-
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Dear Hans-Ulrich,
Thank you for inviting me to participate in "Unbuilt Worlds - unrealized artist-projects". Sounds terrific.
In 1986 I was invited to participate in a program called "Messages to the Public". The invited artists would be given a 30-
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“Message to curators: Whatever you’re doing right now, do something else next.” Roberta Smith (New York Times, February 14, 2010)
THE CONCEPT:
SIGHT UNSEEN is intended to challenge traditional notions of curatorial practice. The project establis
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“Message to curators: Whatever you’re doing right now, do something else next.” Roberta Smith (New York Times, February 14, 2010)
THE CONCEPT:
SIGHT UNSEEN is intended to challenge traditional notions of curatorial practice. The project establis
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Extracts from an unpublished interview with Michael Archer for Phaidon press:
...Around the same period I made a proposal for the New Contemporaries exhibition which was going to be held at the ICA. In those days the toilets were on either side of the
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Extracts from an unpublished interview with Michael Archer for Phaidon press:
...Around the same period I made a proposal for the New Contemporaries exhibition which was going to be held at the ICA. In those days the toilets were on either side of the
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Eine Kreisfläche von ca. 30m Durchmesser ist auf dem offenen zum Ministerium für Bildung und Wiesenschaft und dem Ministerium für Justiz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland gehörenden ebenen Gelände in Bonn-BadGodesberg zu markieren, wenn möglich auf d
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Eine Kreisfläche von ca. 30m Durchmesser ist auf dem offenen zum Ministerium für Bildung und Wiesenschaft und dem Ministerium für Justiz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland gehörenden ebenen Gelände in Bonn-BadGodesberg zu markieren, wenn möglich auf d
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Dreamland: A great Freudian Theme Park - Zoe Beloff
WWW
This as yet unrealized project aims rebuild Coney Island’s famous Dreamland amusement park that burned down in 1911, as a true Freudian theme park.
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This as yet unrealized project aims rebuild Coney Island’s famous Dreamland amusement park that burned down in 1911, as a true Freudian theme park.
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Proposal for a Times Square Business Improvement District
Traffic Median Public Art Project
Febuary 28th, 1995
Artist: Christian Marclay
Title: Broadway Musicals
Site: Traffic median between Broadway and Seventh Avenue, from 4
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Proposal for a Times Square Business Improvement District
Traffic Median Public Art Project
Febuary 28th, 1995
Artist: Christian Marclay
Title: Broadway Musicals
Site: Traffic median between Broadway and Seventh Avenue, from 4
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City Hall Tower Night Ilumination - Krysztof Wodiczko
Unbuilt Roads
"In the name of "progress" our official culture is striving to force the new media to do the work of the old."
-Marshall McLuhan
"For the city of today does speak to us, but it is also at certain points and in certain orders remarkably silent. There a
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"In the name of "progress" our official culture is striving to force the new media to do the work of the old."
-Marshall McLuhan
"For the city of today does speak to us, but it is also at certain points and in certain orders remarkably silent. There a
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Proposal for a temporary public artwork on West San Fernando Street under the Highway 87 overpass and over the Guadalupe River, San Jose, CA
It takes about 68 seconds to cross under Highway 87 and over the Guadalupe River while walking on West San Fern
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Proposal for a temporary public artwork on West San Fernando Street under the Highway 87 overpass and over the Guadalupe River, San Jose, CA
It takes about 68 seconds to cross under Highway 87 and over the Guadalupe River while walking on West San Fern
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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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My work is a public telephone located centrally in a city, or in the lobby of a public building. There is a board above the telephone on which is written: "This is a free phone, but the conversations are being recorded and published later word by word."
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My work is a public telephone located centrally in a city, or in the lobby of a public building. There is a board above the telephone on which is written: "This is a free phone, but the conversations are being recorded and published later word by word."
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The attached text document explains a wall sculpture that, due to lack of funding, I was not able to complete.
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My work is oftentimes inspired by objects, which I have encountered simply by living my life; trash on the sidewalk, patterns on the t-
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The attached text document explains a wall sculpture that, due to lack of funding, I was not able to complete.
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My work is oftentimes inspired by objects, which I have encountered simply by living my life; trash on the sidewalk, patterns on the t-
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Fly me to outer space
This project explores new power relations between a networked public and the artist as well as the process of funding an artwork through crowdfunding to its extreme. The idea of this project is a journey to outer space with the for
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Fly me to outer space
This project explores new power relations between a networked public and the artist as well as the process of funding an artwork through crowdfunding to its extreme. The idea of this project is a journey to outer space with the for
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Geplanter Standort:
Naturwissenschaftliches Zentrum der Westfälischen Wilhelmsuniversität, Münster
Material:
Betonguß
Maße:
Tiefe 2,30 m, Breite 25,0 m, Länge 25,0 m
Note
The piece is a rhomboid square depression with the p
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Geplanter Standort:
Naturwissenschaftliches Zentrum der Westfälischen Wilhelmsuniversität, Münster
Material:
Betonguß
Maße:
Tiefe 2,30 m, Breite 25,0 m, Länge 25,0 m
Note
The piece is a rhomboid square depression with the p
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'The Wave' 1989.
Proposal for the Merchant marines memorial off shore Battery Park New York City.
More information can be found on. macadamsstudio.com
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'The Wave' 1989.
Proposal for the Merchant marines memorial off shore Battery Park New York City.
More information can be found on. macadamsstudio.com
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An outdoor concrete sculpture, yet uncompleted.
This minimal sculpture is to be built using the traditional catwalk runway model, as in use for most fashion shows. Although adaptable, it should be constructed according to standard proportions, in a
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An outdoor concrete sculpture, yet uncompleted.
This minimal sculpture is to be built using the traditional catwalk runway model, as in use for most fashion shows. Although adaptable, it should be constructed according to standard proportions, in a
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