Jake and Dinos Chapman's five proposals for an empty plinth situated on central londons trafalgar square - Jake and Dinos Chapman
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commissioned by liberal daily broadsheet newspaper ironically suggesting the most unsuitable artists possible to produce the most unsuitable public sculpture never to be realized: ha ha ha, very funny we suggest one of the following:
project 'Hawki
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commissioned by liberal daily broadsheet newspaper ironically suggesting the most unsuitable artists possible to produce the most unsuitable public sculpture never to be realized: ha ha ha, very funny we suggest one of the following:
project 'Hawki
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Project 1
Title: untitled. Seeding the Indian Ocean (between Europe and S. E. Asia) with text-coconuts.
Year: 1995
Description: Coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) inhabit the entire tropical belt. They were the only palms common to both the Old and t
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Project 1
Title: untitled. Seeding the Indian Ocean (between Europe and S. E. Asia) with text-coconuts.
Year: 1995
Description: Coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) inhabit the entire tropical belt. They were the only palms common to both the Old and t
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PROPOSAL FOR SEATTLE ARTS COMMISSION, IN PUBLIC - Chris Burden
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I propose that a typical working fisherman's boat 30 to 50 feet in length be attached to the side of the new Seattle Art Museum building. The boat's bow would point skyward, it's keel resting along one side of the building . A cable from the roof to the b
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I propose that a typical working fisherman's boat 30 to 50 feet in length be attached to the side of the new Seattle Art Museum building. The boat's bow would point skyward, it's keel resting along one side of the building . A cable from the roof to the b
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Grand Concours International D'Architecture - Sol Lewitt
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TITRE DU PROJET:
Grand Concours D'International D'architecture
ANNEE:
1993/1994
DESCRIPTIF:
Concours de plage ouvert surinvitation a des equipe D' Architectes de renomíe internationale.
Objet = construire en untemps limiteé entre lama
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TITRE DU PROJET:
Grand Concours D'International D'architecture
ANNEE:
1993/1994
DESCRIPTIF:
Concours de plage ouvert surinvitation a des equipe D' Architectes de renomíe internationale.
Objet = construire en untemps limiteé entre lama
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To Two Too; Hypothetical Monument for a Natural Disaster - Jeffrey Wisniewski
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(222) steel, wire mesh containers, 'gitter boxes', half filled with architectural and cultural debris with other miscellaneous rubble
(22) solar panels with battery bank, etc. (solar system)
(6) LCD video projectors; video and live television
broad
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(222) steel, wire mesh containers, 'gitter boxes', half filled with architectural and cultural debris with other miscellaneous rubble
(22) solar panels with battery bank, etc. (solar system)
(6) LCD video projectors; video and live television
broad
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Solvent transfer, watercolor, pencil, crayon and tape on illustration board. 13 3/4" x 9 7/3"
Robert Rauschenberg was asked to do a cover for Time Magazine to celebrate the opening of the World's Fair at Flushing Meadows in New York City, in 1964. The
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Solvent transfer, watercolor, pencil, crayon and tape on illustration board. 13 3/4" x 9 7/3"
Robert Rauschenberg was asked to do a cover for Time Magazine to celebrate the opening of the World's Fair at Flushing Meadows in New York City, in 1964. The
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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
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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
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Dear Hans:
The most passionate times in the studio is the birth of a new idea. It gets all the juices that make being an artist flow. Sadly many wonderful ideas are not realized because one is in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I chose to live a
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Dear Hans:
The most passionate times in the studio is the birth of a new idea. It gets all the juices that make being an artist flow. Sadly many wonderful ideas are not realized because one is in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I chose to live a
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I have not kept track of most of my umcompleted projects (and many of the completed ones - ) I believe this is quite alright -
Most of what has never been done was either to boring, inconvenient, incorrect, or whatever - no regrets. Some projects made h
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I have not kept track of most of my umcompleted projects (and many of the completed ones - ) I believe this is quite alright -
Most of what has never been done was either to boring, inconvenient, incorrect, or whatever - no regrets. Some projects made h
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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
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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
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City Hall Tower Night Ilumination - Krysztof Wodiczko
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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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"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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119. PROJET DE DESTRUCTION DU MUSEE 1970 - 1971 - Jef Geys
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Plan pour devoir Musée o'anu[?]s avec autorisation et aide de ministères contactes
(Eventuellement raisons pour lesquelles le travail n'a pu etre realise)
Refus ministères de la defense etc.
Publications:
Kempens informatieblad
Contact
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Plan pour devoir Musée o'anu[?]s avec autorisation et aide de ministères contactes
(Eventuellement raisons pour lesquelles le travail n'a pu etre realise)
Refus ministères de la defense etc.
Publications:
Kempens informatieblad
Contact
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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
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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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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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J'ai [illegible] de [illegible] un faux [?]drome vous l' echangeur automatic à l'etui de la ville du Hare.
[Illegible] monde itait d'accord, c'ert la virou [illegible] [?]quelle cela ne it[?] pas fuit.
[illegible]
5.2.97
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J'ai [illegible] de [illegible] un faux [?]drome vous l' echangeur automatic à l'etui de la ville du Hare.
[Illegible] monde itait d'accord, c'ert la virou [illegible] [?]quelle cela ne it[?] pas fuit.
[illegible]
5.2.97
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Social Resource Project For the Munich Olympics - Stephen Willats
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The social resource project for the Munich Olympics is specifically directed at members of athletic clubs and the audience of athletic fixtures. The project aims to get participants to articulate the rules and perceptual structure of the athletic social e
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The social resource project for the Munich Olympics is specifically directed at members of athletic clubs and the audience of athletic fixtures. The project aims to get participants to articulate the rules and perceptual structure of the athletic social e
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Dear Hans Ulrich:
Tonight I am thinking about my unrealized projects. I have many of them. One is: To publish a book of IDEAS. I consider that ideas are the cheapest thing in the world. I have about 10,000 of them. But I have no time to put them all in
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Dear Hans Ulrich:
Tonight I am thinking about my unrealized projects. I have many of them. One is: To publish a book of IDEAS. I consider that ideas are the cheapest thing in the world. I have about 10,000 of them. But I have no time to put them all in
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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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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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