Unbuilt Roads | Agency of Unrealized Projects

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

U9293

01.01.1978

The World is a Theater and we each have a role - Louise Bourgeois

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A circular construction in wood, painted sky blue and white. In 3 dimensions. An upside down dome. A small figure stands in the center. (eventually reasons why the work has not be realized) Complicated and too expensive but never discarded. ...

Metaphor, Sculpture, Space, Unbuilt Roads, Universe, Wood

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

U9487

01.01.1997

Placid Earth: A Project for the Meeting of Millennia - Cai Guo Quiang

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Observed from space, the Earth at night is ablaze with lights. During the last second of this century and the first second of the next century--the two seconds when the millennia meet-all inhabitants of the Earth should turn off their lights, letting t ...

Earth, Energy, Humans, Space, Technology, Unbuilt Roads

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

U9848

01.01.1997

Right-of-Privacy Release - Tony Oursler

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Miscellaneous Instruments FORM 5:I-3.02 RIGHT-OF-PRIVACY RELEASE Short Form [Name of Motion Picture Company] [Address] Dear Sirs: I am one of the persons of whom [name of author] wrote in his book [name of book]. You are p ...

Contracts, Forms, Privacy, Release, Unbuilt Roads

U9936

23.01.1997

Messages to the Public - Nancy Spero

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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- ...

Messages, New York, Pro-choice, Public, Unbuilt Roads

U9282

22.11.1992

Proposal for a permanent video installation for the NYC headquarters of Sony Corporation - Dara Birnbaum

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INSTALLATION DESCRIPTION: At one end of the proposed installation space (main dining area designated for Sony employees), a wall is used to support a video wall or projection screen, which displays a seam-less flow of large-scale images. These large-s ...

Documentation, History, Installation, Media, Technology, Unbuilt Roads, Video

U9918

01.01.1994

Eight Days a Week - Joe Scanlan

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In 1994, after several years of studying the history of calendars and their basis in the solar system, I designed a new calendar that was more "in tune" with my personal rhythms. Although it contained the same 365 days, the calendar was divided into 15 In ...

Calendar, Planets, Space, Time, 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

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

U9948

30.01.1997

My House - Uri Tzaig

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Like initiation, one has to build his own house, as shown to him in his own dreams. Useing the colors he likes, the shapes he fells, the distances his own body needs, giving names to things, functions, in his language. This house, that was built in my min ...

House, Interior design, Language, 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

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

U9785

01.01.1994

Grand Concours International D'Architecture - Mahe Gilles

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Concours de plage ouvert surinvitation a des equipe D' Architectes de renomíe internationale. Objet = construire en untemps limiteé entre lamarée descendante + montante un batiment a l'aide des seuls materials trouvés sur la plage Nature Des ...

Architecture, Beach, Competition, Sand, Unbuilt Roads

U9665

01.01.1967

Unrealized Turtles 1967 - Joseph Grigely

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Basically, a short history about why I never became an illustrator of turtles - of wild animals - or of anything else At Birchland Park School, Mrs. Donahue taught art and Mrs. Corliss taught music. The art classes were okay because I drew turtles all ...

Animals, Drawing, Education, Turtles, Unbuilt Roads

U9779

01.01.1988

Relatum (Iron Plate and Stone) - Lee Ufan

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Four natural stones are evenly places around an iron plate, facing each other. As the iron plate is buried one meter below the ground, only the four stones are visible to the viewer. The absence of the iron plate is indicated by a title sign which ind ...

Iron, Metal, Olympics, Sculpture, Seoul, Stone, 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

U9793

01.01.1997

Isometric Projection - Sol Lewitt

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Architecture, Measurement, Sculputure, Unbuilt Roads

U9678

01.01.1996

Unbetitelt, Gänse-Projekt + Noch unbetitelt , " Durch den Mund sehen " + Kartoffeln - Carsten Holler

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Unbetitelt, Gänse-Projekt 1996 Junge Graugänse werden auf einen ferhgesteurten Flugdrachen geprägt, indem sie im Moment des Schlüpfens mit diesem Objekt konfrontiert werden. Der Flugdrachen übernimmt die Rolle der Mutter. Später, wen ...

Birds, Body, Kartoffel, Mouth, Mund, Potatoes, Unbuilt Roads, Vögel

U9591

01.01.1987

The World Record - General Idea

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A commission for the SkyDome sports stadium in Toronto, Canada. "General Idea's World Record takes the form of an Illuminated sign suspended overhead and running for the complete circumference of the SkyDome's circular interior street. It will display ...

Canada, Geography, Images, Sign, Toronto, Unbuilt Roads, World

U9736

12.03.1997

Battery Park City - Per Kirkeby

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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 ...

City, Park, Public, Site Specific, Unbuilt Roads

U9503

01.01.1997

NON REALIZED PROJECTS - Christo and Jeanne-Claude

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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 ...

Italy, Landscape, Monument, Museums, New York, Unbuilt Roads, Wrappings

U9572

01.01.1992

Engel-Detektor - Jakob Gautel & Jason Karaïndros

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"Looking into the heart of light, the silence . . . " - T. S. Eliot «Un agne passe» - „Ein Engel schwebt durch den Raum" - ein Moment due Ruhe, der selten geworden ist in unserer Gesellschaft, die vom visuellen und sonoren horror vacui verflogt wir ...

Angel, Ars Technica, Engel, Espace Electra, Paris, Sound, Unbuilt Roads

U9833

01.01.1977

Square Depression - Bruce Nauman

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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 ...

Perspective, Private, Public, Square, Unbuilt Roads

U9752

01.01.1997

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

Unbuilt Roads

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

Boat, Dreams, Ocean, Unbuilt Roads