Unbuilt Roads | Agency of Unrealized Projects

U9263

01.01.1974

CIVITAS Stadtpostkarten - Lothar Baumgarten

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Einige Überlegungen zur Emblematik von Ansichtskarten. Abgebildete Sehenswürdigkeiten gelangen auf Ansichtskarten durch die häufig gewählte Zentralperspektive in die Nähe ausgestellter Backwaren. Die siegelhaft stilisierte Heraldik, eines immer wiede ...

Architecture, Bridges, City, Postcard, Tourism, Unbuilt Roads, Urban

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

U9958

01.01.1993

Project for the Initiative Mahnmal Homosexuellenverfolgung, Frankfurt - Jeff Wall

Unbuilt Roads

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

U9804

25.03.1997

Unrealized Projects - Jonas Meckas

Unbuilt Roads

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

U9864

01.01.1992

Post Photographic apparatus - Steven Pippin

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Description: The impetus came from , or was initially inspired by the endless stream of monotonous images created by the exponential growth in the amount of photographic apparatus. In an effort to counteract this mediocre use of such a powerfull medium ...

Image, Mechanical, Photography, Technology, Unbuilt Roads

U9774

01.01.1994

Arrangement Stroom HCBK Den Haag - Ange Leccia

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l'ecran video Geant construit dans le prolongement de l'architecture de l'opera de la ville (Philipszaal) difuse en continue une image de la mer inversée. (Eventuellement raisons pour lesquelles le travail n'a pu etre realise) Cout élevé. (Trop!) ...

Amsterdam, Ocean, Unbuilt Roads, Video

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

U9784

01.01.1993

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 ...

Architecture, Beach, Competition, Sand, Unbuilt Roads

U9641

01.01.1995

Project 1 + Project 2 - Simryn Gill

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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 ...

Asia, Coconut, Geography, History, Indian Ocean, Text, Unbuilt Roads, Venice, World Trade

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

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

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

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

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