Unbuilt Roads | Agency of Unrealized Projects

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

U9793

01.01.1997

Isometric Projection - Sol Lewitt

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(see image attached) ...

Architecture, Measurement, Sculputure, Unbuilt Roads

U9968

25.03.1997

Passage - Richard Wentworth

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In August 1996 I was invited to propose a pedestrian bridge across the river Thames to connect St Pauls Cathedral to the new Tate Gallery of Modern Art. Realising that bridges are conventionally controlled by the economics of wheeled traffic, and invariab ...

Bridge, London, River Thames, 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

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

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

U9497

07.04.1997

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 ...

Drugs, Food, Guns, London, Public, Public Intervention, Science, Sculpture, 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

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

U9285

01.01.1969

Monumento all'agricoltura 1969-70 - Alighiero Boetti

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In Turin von Alighiero Boetti für Fiat entworfenes Projekt, das im Rahmen der Landwirtschaftsausstellung 1970 in Verona prasentiert werden sollte, auf der die Firma vertreten war. Es sah eine etwa zwanzig Meter hohe Saüle vor, die die verschiedenen Schi ...

agriculture, Earth, Fiat, Landscape, Sculpture, 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

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

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

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

U9945

01.01.1994

MAK - Wien - Rosemarie Trockel

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Idee: linke Autospur de [unleserlich] durch dis [?]halle (Saal) verlege[?]. ...

Auto, Auto Halle, Cars, Transportation, Travel, Unbuilt Roads

U9635

01.01.1997

Milan House (AC/DC & Joy Division) - Liam Gillick

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In response to an invitation to propose a public art project anywhere in Italy I designed a house to be built in Milan. The basic drawings were completed and submitted for consideration. At this point an architectural practice in Milan became involved and ...

Architecture, House, Milan, Music, Public art, 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

U9926

01.01.1997

The Rosetta Garden - Gary Simmons

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In collaboration with Brooklyn Technical High School and Andrea Claire The Rosetta Garden Proposal for a vacant lot, Fort Greene, Brooklyn Gary Simmons' proposal is both a reclamation of vacant land and the physical embodiment of philosophical pu ...

Community, Garden, History, Rosetta Stone, Unbuilt Roads

U9769

05.02.1997

Chen H.V.O + G.T. - Bertrand Lavier

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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 ...

Bridge, French, Transportation, 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

U9660

01.01.1995

Double Exposure 1995-6 - Dan Graham

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This pavilion is enterable through a sliding 2-way mirror door in one side, is sited in a landscape with some trees, a large visible vista. The 4m x 4m x 4m pavilion has two 2-way mirror sides. The third side is a cibachrome transparency which shows th ...

Landscape, Mirror, Pavilion, Sunset, Time, 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

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

U10002

01.01.1989

La Guerra De Los Simbolos - Victor Grippo

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Una larga mesa, no necesariamente recta adaptada a las condiciones del espacio de exhibición, de 30 cm de ancho y longitud variable sobre la que estarà una larga "maqueta" construida con yeso blanco, de "paisa jes" urbanos conteniedo, edificios y simbol ...

Exhibition, Installation, Unbuilt Roads, War

U10007

01.09.1995

Merci, Thank you, Danke: Les 2 sujets - Thomas Hirschorn

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Pour les affichés 4x3 devant l'immeuble Valois/Saint-Honoré je propose deux sujets issus de la serie "merci, Thank you, Danke". Ces sujets sont deux collages sur carton d'un format assez petit (eviron 20x40 pour l'un et 20x40 pour l'autre) Cette serie j ...

Collage, Photography, Thank you, 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