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U9673

01.05.1981

WATERWORKS - Mona Hatoum

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Extracts from an unpublished interview with Michael Archer for Phaidon press: ...Around the same period I made a proposal for the New Contemporaries exhibition which was going to be held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 ...

Body, Censorship, human, ICA, London, Public, Taboo, Unbuilt Roads, Video

U9747

01.01.1968

A House of Dust - Alison Knowles

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The House of Dust was first a computer poem using fortran language. The quatrains are all different, each line randomly connected. The form shifting categories for the house are: the material of manufature, the locations the light source and the inhabitan ...

Computer, Language, Poetry, Technology, Unbuilt Roads

U9963

01.01.1994

Ruderaltisch, 1994/95 Kunst am Bau - Projekt - Lois Weinberger

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Die Arbeit besteht aus einem Betontisch im Freien / auf dem erdgefüllte / allgegenwärtige Behälter / wie entleerte Öldosen / leere Farbkübel / „unverwüstliche Plastiksäcke" stehen. Eine Bepflanzung wird nicht vorgenommen / da die im Freiland ...

East Berlin, East Germany, Table, Unbuilt Roads

U9567

01.01.1995

Museum - Katharina Fritsch

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Beschreibung des Modells bitte dem Katalog "Katharina Fritsch, Museum, Biennale Venedig 1995" entnehmen. (Erster Abschnitt: Modell 1:10) Der Katalog ist bei Cantz in Stuttgart gedruckt. Previous Publications (?) Katalog der Biennale Venedig 1995 (s ...

Architecture, Ausstellung, Exhibition, Model, Museum, Skulpturen, Unbuilt Roads

U9701

01.01.1994

Festival du film de famille - Pierre Huyghe

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Le Festival du film de famille est un événement qui séted sur 3 jours, c'est le pant de dipart d'une dénie partagée qui peut se répéter sur plusieurs [arnisé?]. Une communanté affactive [illisible] son [basan?] d'histories par sa propre producti ...

Family, Festival, Film, Unbuilt Roads

U9696

01.01.1993

Ceinture - Huang Ping Yong

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Ce Projet était fait pour la vitrine (galerie) qui se situe autour de la salle principal et d'un autre côte vers las rues, la piece est un tuyau transparent de 75M longeur, 40 cm diamétre, delans mettre les plus sortes d'insecte = sorpion, lézards, ar ...

Belt, Insects, Installation, Pompidou, Unbuilt Roads

U9610

01.01.1988

Tulips for Amsterdam - Isa Genzken

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Auf dem Wege nach Amsterdam sollten wir 30 meter hohe stahltulpen im würde leicht Schwingend die Autofahrer. Links und rechts oder Autobahn begrußen. (Jede Blüte in ihre eigenen farbe) (eventually reasons why the work has not been realised) Die A ...

Amsterdam, Blumen, Flowers, Highway, Metal, Sculpture, Unbuilt Roads

U9706

01.01.1989

The insurer - Fabrice Hybert

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Monsieur l'Abbe Pierre, il y a sans doute d'autres points que je n'ai pas imagines mais une conversation permettrait sans doute d'apporter des rectifications. Je sollicite votre bienveillance et votre engagement pour pouvoir m'autoriser a vous rencontr ...

City, Fruit, Photography, Plants, Pollution, Unbuilt Roads

U9816

05.02.1990

The pyramids...to be seen to be believed - Jonathan Monk

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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 ...

Glasgow, Public, Pyramid, Sculpture, Unbuilt Roads

U9752

01.01.1997

The bridge according to Jeong-a's dream - Koo Jeong

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round bridge in the middle of the sea to be approached by boat ...

Boat, Dreams, Ocean, Unbuilt Roads

U9248

14.02.1997

Electronic Theater - Laurie Anderson

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Dear Hans-Ulrich Obrist, I'm sending some images to you on disk. There are four stills of a theater set. (et 1 and et 2 on the first disk and et 3 and et5 on the second disk.) These are printable using Photoshop 3.0. Here is the text you asked for ...

Set Design, Technology, Theater, Unbuilt Roads

U9668

21.02.1997

Niemandsland - Hans Haacke

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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 ...

Education, land, Landscape, Ministery, Public, Soil, Unbuilt Roads

U9798

01.01.1972

Prima del 73 - Fabio Mauri

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see my letter (eventually reasons why the work has not been realised) Anxiety Previous Publications (?) This thing is mentioned in "Fabio Mauri Opere e Azioni 1954-1994" Giorgio Mondadori Ed. Exisiting Documents (photos, drawings, models): ...

Future, History, Photography, Politics, Unbuilt Roads

U9731

01.01.1988

Tower Cranes, Paris - Tadashi Kawamata

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Please see the enclosed leaflet· "Tower Crane, Paris" (eventually reasons why the work has not been realised) Financial, technical and organisation problems Previous Publications (?) Enclosed ...

Cranes, Paris, Tower, Unbuilt Roads

U9290

01.01.1997

d'un projet dédié aux victimes de la Shoah. - Christian Boltanski

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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 ...

Berlin, Holocaust, Monument, Reflection, Unbuilt Roads

U9858

01.01.1995

"400" - Manfred Pernice

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1995-96 Weile bestand ein Zusammenhang. eng. [unleserlich] ihn nicht gesucht. Möglichkeiten nahm er nicht wahr. Das Sockel (1) ergibt 11-fach vervielfältigt, Modell einer grosser Wohn- und Geschäftsanlag; [M?]aßtab 1:100, welches im Ausstellung ...

Architecture, Germany, Tower, Unbuilt Roads

U9517

01.01.1990

<A Public Misery Message> - Critical Art Ensemble

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A Public Misery Message, was designed as temporary public art for a US city. The Reagan/Bush era was coming to a close, and the financial restructuring of the classes was complete: The top wealth holders in America controlled more wealth than at any previ ...

America, banner, Class, Political, Unbuilt Roads, Wealth

U9651

19.02.1997

Douglas Gordon - 5 year drive-by; proposal for a public artwork.

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Originally presented at the Biennale de Lyon, 1995. The work is something of a companion piece to 24 Hour Psycho but it may, appear to be a little more extreme in some ways. I want to work with John Ford's film The Searchers which is, I think, the ar ...

Film, Hollywood, Hope, John Ford, Narrative, Time, Unbuilt Roads, Westerns

U9887

01.01.1995

MODELL OF AN OFFICE FOR A COUPLE OF TWINS, BOTH 1,38 TALL" - Tobias Rehrenberg

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WOOD, PLASTIC, 2 CHAIRS ca 180 x 150 x 170 cm PIECE OF THE SHOW "CANCELLED PROJECTS" IN MUSEUM FRIEDERICIANUM KASSEL SUMMER 95 Previous Publications (?) NO Existing Documents (photos, drawings, models): ENCLOSED ...

Installation, Museum, Office, Twins, Unbuilt Roads

U9548

01.01.1997

Why New Worlds Conceived by Artists Do Not Get Built - Peter Fend

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Art, being a permutation or adaptation of that which is known, bodies forth the new. It bodies forth, at the least, mutations. These mutations, curiously, coincide with other fields of innovation, such as science and technology. And the mutations, t ...

Architecture, Invention, Mutations, Nam June Paik, Science, Society, Technology, Unbuilt Roads, World

U9617

01.07.1991

Project pour le parc de sculpture de Vassiviére - Paul-Armand Gette

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Un bloc de granite choisi dans la partie boisée de l'île sera considéré comme étant le centre d'une circonférence de 25m. de rayon, qui, sans que cela soit indiqué sur place d'aucune façon, restera vierge de toutes interventions (aménagements, co ...

Forest, Granite, Island, Scupture, Unbuilt Roads

U9646

16.01.1997

Dog Jaw Monument - A Futurist Tele-introject - Leon Golub

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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 ...

Events, Future, Monument, Pathos, Time, Unbuilt Roads

U9874

01.01.1983

Attitudine Diplomatica - Hermann Pitz

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§79 Proceeding from this in 1983 Pitz negotiated with representatives of the foreign ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. The attitudine diplomatica project was intended to find out to what point the government was interested in admitting Pi ...

Education, Germany, Government, Unbuilt Roads

U9958

01.01.1993

Project for the Initiative Mahnmal Homosexuellenverfolgung, Frankfurt - Jeff Wall

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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 ...

Imagination, Monument, Museum, Public, Unbuilt Roads

U9807

01.01.1997

Cruzeiro Do Sul, (Southern Cross) (Crucero del Sur) 1969-70* - Cildo Meireles

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A cube with a side measurement of 9 mm, consisting of two transverse sections: one of pine and the other of oak, trees that represented mythical beings in the cosmology of the Tupi Indians, beings whose correlation (mistakenly interpreted by the Jesuits a ...

Cube, Mythology, Trees, Unbuilt Roads, Wood

U9931

01.01.1994

Making for Art - 100 Unsucceeded Presentation - 1995, 1996, - Yutaka Sone

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In this project, I visit one hundred curators individually who work at contemporary museum or make shows by their own style to present my works But in this project, all my presentations must be rejected by all curators, which means each of them will en ...

Curators, Museum, Unbuilt Roads, Video