Brasília, Cars, Pools & Other Modernities - Clarissa Tossin
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“Brasília, Cars, Pools & Other Modernities” is the culmination of a body of work that departs from my experience of growing up in Brasília, Brazil’s planned capital. The project consists of a site-specific action in which a 1970s Volkswagen Brasil
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“Brasília, Cars, Pools & Other Modernities” is the culmination of a body of work that departs from my experience of growing up in Brasília, Brazil’s planned capital. The project consists of a site-specific action in which a 1970s Volkswagen Brasil
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This project, a comic book, was one of the 5 finalists for the 2011 Frieze Art Fair EMDASH award.
Written Treatment.
The proposed work is an amplification of the fair and its potential meanings across different levels of reality. The epileptic segue o
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This project, a comic book, was one of the 5 finalists for the 2011 Frieze Art Fair EMDASH award.
Written Treatment.
The proposed work is an amplification of the fair and its potential meanings across different levels of reality. The epileptic segue o
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For us, a key function of contemporary art in an open society is to test concepts, assumptions and boundaries. One way we do this is through making site-specific work in public places; our projects are often satirical or polemic in nature, and involve a d
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For us, a key function of contemporary art in an open society is to test concepts, assumptions and boundaries. One way we do this is through making site-specific work in public places; our projects are often satirical or polemic in nature, and involve a d
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Seating in the Epcore Centre for Performing Arts turns into an oil spill
Client: Epcore Centre for Performing Arts / Calgary Alberta Canada
Date: 1990
Central hall of new Epcore Centre designed as public seating area at base of Splash. Sculptur
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Seating in the Epcore Centre for Performing Arts turns into an oil spill
Client: Epcore Centre for Performing Arts / Calgary Alberta Canada
Date: 1990
Central hall of new Epcore Centre designed as public seating area at base of Splash. Sculptur
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Two projects for the World Government Building - Samuil Stoyanov
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Two projects for the World Government Building
by Samuil Stoyanov – visual artist
These are two of three objects which I made 2009 – 2010, as a metaphoric, utopian projects for the future building of the World Government Office. This institu
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Two projects for the World Government Building
by Samuil Stoyanov – visual artist
These are two of three objects which I made 2009 – 2010, as a metaphoric, utopian projects for the future building of the World Government Office. This institu
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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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Jerusalem, Israel
In 1998 Esther Shalev-Gerz proposed the intervention Tower (Without Walls) to the city of Jerusalem. The project consisted of imagining Jerusalem without city walls, by projecting the image of the streets located on the other side ont
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Jerusalem, Israel
In 1998 Esther Shalev-Gerz proposed the intervention Tower (Without Walls) to the city of Jerusalem. The project consisted of imagining Jerusalem without city walls, by projecting the image of the streets located on the other side ont
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As Contemporary art exhibitions develop towards a multiplicity of practises and genres, many are being used for urban regeneration and environmental projects. In this new landscape I wish to lead on initiatives to re-shape the urban landscape to incorpora
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As Contemporary art exhibitions develop towards a multiplicity of practises and genres, many are being used for urban regeneration and environmental projects. In this new landscape I wish to lead on initiatives to re-shape the urban landscape to incorpora
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The 'Not at...' series: Installations that never were... - Claire Manning
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This series of work is a set of installations proposed but not realised.
It is an ongoing project aimed at freeing another piece -- 'In the shadow of her gaze n.02' -- from the constraints of its reliance with the wall. Each proposal is capable of bei
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This series of work is a set of installations proposed but not realised.
It is an ongoing project aimed at freeing another piece -- 'In the shadow of her gaze n.02' -- from the constraints of its reliance with the wall. Each proposal is capable of bei
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Pots.
A site specific proposal, for a non permanent installation.
A neutral, interior space considered as a “Pot”.
Inside this space I build a large scale model, an abstract structure. It consists of carton boxes - rectangular and cubic ones, of
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Pots.
A site specific proposal, for a non permanent installation.
A neutral, interior space considered as a “Pot”.
Inside this space I build a large scale model, an abstract structure. It consists of carton boxes - rectangular and cubic ones, of
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In the summer of 1975 a fresh wind blew over the world. At a distance of 225 km, in orbit around the Earth, the USA and the USSR made contact as two spacecraft docked together in a sign of peace. In an instant it lightened the spirit of all of those caugh
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In the summer of 1975 a fresh wind blew over the world. At a distance of 225 km, in orbit around the Earth, the USA and the USSR made contact as two spacecraft docked together in a sign of peace. In an instant it lightened the spirit of all of those caugh
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The Deer Problem Proposal: Schuylkill Center
The Schuylkill Center had a recent problem with an over population of white tailed deer, to the point where the ecosystem of the land could have been threatened. There are only suppose to be eight to ten dee
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The Deer Problem Proposal: Schuylkill Center
The Schuylkill Center had a recent problem with an over population of white tailed deer, to the point where the ecosystem of the land could have been threatened. There are only suppose to be eight to ten dee
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JARDIN COTONCO
‘Jardin Cotonco’ is a local recreational park in the Waterwijk district in Ghent-
Belgium. It aspires to be a pedagogical garden/green area in the historical centre of the city of Ghent, a laboratory and extension to MIAT (Museum
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JARDIN COTONCO
‘Jardin Cotonco’ is a local recreational park in the Waterwijk district in Ghent-
Belgium. It aspires to be a pedagogical garden/green area in the historical centre of the city of Ghent, a laboratory and extension to MIAT (Museum
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Originally submitted to the 12 x 12 Project Space at the MCA in Chicago in 2003/04. The submitted images are showing the model book made for the demonstrative needs of the project. The size of the model book is H 6 x W 4,5 x 1, 5 cm and it pops-up /unfol
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Originally submitted to the 12 x 12 Project Space at the MCA in Chicago in 2003/04. The submitted images are showing the model book made for the demonstrative needs of the project. The size of the model book is H 6 x W 4,5 x 1, 5 cm and it pops-up /unfol
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A Starry Minute proposes to collaborate with building owners in Times Square to turn off all of the commercial signage in the area (41 St. - 50 St. between Broadway and 7th Ave) simultaneously for one minute. A Starry Minute’s specific duration of 60 se
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A Starry Minute proposes to collaborate with building owners in Times Square to turn off all of the commercial signage in the area (41 St. - 50 St. between Broadway and 7th Ave) simultaneously for one minute. A Starry Minute’s specific duration of 60 se
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THE STREET IS ALSO A HOUSE ... - António Rosa da Silva
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explores the urban environment interactions in a series of sets of furniture perfectly stereotyped in any existing interior space, public or private.
The object is materialized in a plane to be held in red Valchromat (MDF), this plane is placed at a ve
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explores the urban environment interactions in a series of sets of furniture perfectly stereotyped in any existing interior space, public or private.
The object is materialized in a plane to be held in red Valchromat (MDF), this plane is placed at a ve
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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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Artist Statement:
It is interesting to see what one value or thinks should be contained, stored and kept. This idea of something being secure and safely tucked away or collected is fundamental in my work. I think it is an essential quality of humans to
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Artist Statement:
It is interesting to see what one value or thinks should be contained, stored and kept. This idea of something being secure and safely tucked away or collected is fundamental in my work. I think it is an essential quality of humans to
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Mario Asef
EXCAVATION
Unrealized project for the exhibition “Architecture” in Küntlerhaus Bregenz – Austria / 2008
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Mario Asef
EXCAVATION
Unrealized project for the exhibition “Architecture” in Küntlerhaus Bregenz – Austria / 2008
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CORONA (Socket Set) is a temporary installation for an existing pair of lanterns. The first lantern functions normally, but has a swarm of empty light sockets covering its glass. The second lantern looks burnt out because the inside of its glass panels
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CORONA (Socket Set) is a temporary installation for an existing pair of lanterns. The first lantern functions normally, but has a swarm of empty light sockets covering its glass. The second lantern looks burnt out because the inside of its glass panels
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Before The Gates Of Our Vacant Future - Joseph Shaeffer
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Project initially proposed for the Garage Center For Contemporary Culture in Moscow, Russia which is housed in the historic Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage designed by Konstantin Melnikov in 1926.
“Before the gates of our vacant future.” Thus reads the ope
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Project initially proposed for the Garage Center For Contemporary Culture in Moscow, Russia which is housed in the historic Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage designed by Konstantin Melnikov in 1926.
“Before the gates of our vacant future.” Thus reads the ope
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“Fireflies” is a site-specific installation, I got the idea while traveling for Bogota to Medellin by land, through the mountain. For the first time after sever years I saw groups of fireflies in the woods. Why there are not so many fireflies around t
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“Fireflies” is a site-specific installation, I got the idea while traveling for Bogota to Medellin by land, through the mountain. For the first time after sever years I saw groups of fireflies in the woods. Why there are not so many fireflies around t
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Dear Mr. Kirkeby
Today I received the ektachromes for the book on unrealised projects form Michael Werner in New York-many thanks.
We would be most thankful if you could fax us some more text related to these projects.
With my best regards
Hans Ulrich
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Dear Mr. Kirkeby
Today I received the ektachromes for the book on unrealised projects form Michael Werner in New York-many thanks.
We would be most thankful if you could fax us some more text related to these projects.
With my best regards
Hans Ulrich
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The ‘E-Motion Pictures’ project by the Dutch multi-disciplinary artist Ron Weijers, one could review as a series of mixed media video works that are only present in a specific set space and time – as opposed to his regular mixed-media paintings whic
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The ‘E-Motion Pictures’ project by the Dutch multi-disciplinary artist Ron Weijers, one could review as a series of mixed media video works that are only present in a specific set space and time – as opposed to his regular mixed-media paintings whic
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