Unbuilt Roads | Agency of Unrealized Projects

U9804

25.03.1997

Unrealized Projects - Jonas Meckas

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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 ...

Books, Diaries, Ideas, river, 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

U9562

01.01.1994

Catwalk - Sylive Fleury

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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 ...

Fashion, Installation, Public, Public art, Public Intervention, Unbuilt Roads

U9853

01.01.1972

Progetto per Gerry Schum - Guiseppe Penone

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Ogni anno un giro di 60" attorno ad un albero seguendo un cerchio fisso. Le riprese montate in successione anno per anno testimoniano la crescita concentrica del tronco. Progetto per Gerry Schum. Novembre 1972. Giuseppe Penone ...

Growth, Nature, Time, Trees, 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

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

U9941

01.01.1993

No title, as the project only reached proposal stage - Rikrit Tiravanija

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Proposal No. 1 (a) In the exhibition space, in proximation (as precisely as possible) to actual space. Replicate (Reconstruct) in architectural scale, space and in specific: detail, the office of the director of the museum. (b) All contents (in deta ...

Architecture, Director, Museum, 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

U9258

01.01.1966

Uncompleted 1966 - and on - John Armleder

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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 ...

Drawings, Earth, Ecart, Military, Sculpture, Unbuilt Roads, Water

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

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

U9983

01.01.1994

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 ...

Culture, debris, Monument, Natural Disater, Unbuilt Roads

U9711

01.01.1989

2 Architecture Towers - Robert Irwin

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A competition won in 1989 Tower One: was proposed to sit in a roundabout next to the Chicago river .. 65' (feet) in height, the base an octagonal cast iron construction stands on a slightly mounded cast rubber base ... eight triangular beams thrust upw ...

Architecture, Competition, Tower, Unbuilt Roads

U9298

01.01.1991

Visual Poem: Cap I Cua - Joan Brossa

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When the project to built the AVE train (Madrid-Scville-Madrid) was getting started, a design team was put together to design the mobile units of this high-speed train. Visual Poet, Joan Brossa, was asked to collaborate in the final touches of this de ...

Poem, Poetry, Train, Unbuilt Roads, Visual

U9877

01.01.1989

Projekt für die Landschaft des Mont-de-Sene (Burgund) im Rahmen eines öffentlichen Auftrags des französischen Kultusministeriums - Markus Raetz

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Das Projekt bestand aus der Aushöhlung einer Felswand und einer in den Fels gehauenen Treppe, die zu ihr hin führte. ...

Architecture, Rock, Stairs, Unbuilt Roads

U9796

28.02.1995

Broadway Musicals - Christian Marclay

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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 ...

Broadway, History, Musical, Public, Unbuilt Roads

U9684

01.01.1992

Entwurf für einen erneuerten Malkasten 1992 - 1994 - Ulrike Holthöfer

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„Entwurf für einen erneuerten Malkasten" 1992 - 1994 Gemeinschaftsprojekt Jacobischer Garten/ Malkasten Düsseldorf: 22000 m2 großer historischer Garten und Gebäudesubstanz (Jacobihaus, Hentrichbau, Randgebäude) im Zentrum der Stadt Düsse ...

City Planning, Community, History, Paint, Society, 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

U9253

01.01.1969

A FAIRLY TALL TOWER, 48,000 Miles High - - Siah Armajani

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Location: Outer Space Status: Theoretical study Proposal to build a self-supporting tower suspended in space but anchored at one point to the earth (U. S. ). All synchronous satellites of the earth are located at the synchronous altitude. This al ...

Architecture, Earth, Physics, Science, Space, Unbuilt Roads

U9268

24.02.1997

The lmprobable Flow - Larry Bell

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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 ...

Installation, Light, Mexico, Public art, Sculpture, Studio, Unbuilt Roads, Video, Water, Wind

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

U9742

26.03.1997

Theater der Leere - Werner Ruhnau and Yves Klein

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Sehr geehrte Frau Sabolewski, auf Veranlassung von Herrn Obrist übersende ich Ihnen anbei die Kataloge " Yves Klein/Werner Ruhnau" und "Baukunst" . Dort finden Sie Zeichnungen, Modellfotos etc. , die Sie gern verwenden können. Das "Feuer-Wasser-Lu ...

Architecture, Berlin, German, Unbuilt Roads, Yves Klein

U9578

01.01.1997

Financial Times Millennium Bridge Competition - Richard Serra and Frank Gehry

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Design Intent: The main purpose of a footbridge across the Thames should be more than to transport people most efficiently from point A to point B. We propose, instead, a bridge where sociality becomes the dominant practical purpose, a structure which ...

Bridge, London, Public space, River Thames, St.Pauls Cathedral, Tate, Unbuilt Roads

U9988

01.10.1987

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 ...

City Hall, City Life, Community, History, Public, Unbuilt Roads

U9869

01.01.1997

"Free Space" - Michelangelo Pistoletto

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Large cage of iron rods without any entrance. A tag is fastened, outside, in the middle of each of the four sides, saying "The Free Space". "Free Space" From the book "100 exhibitions in the month of October" 1976; Recipe n. 90 Pistoletto ...

Freedom, Installation, Iron, Sculpture, Space, 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