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U9742

26.03.1997

Theater der Leere - Werner Ruhnau and Yves Klein

Unbuilt Roads

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

U9517

01.01.1990

<A Public Misery Message> - Critical Art Ensemble

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A Public Misery Message, was designed as temporary public art for a US city. The Reagan/Bush era was coming to a close, and the financial restructuring of the classes was complete: The top wealth holders in America controlled more wealth than at any previ ...

America, banner, Class, Political, Unbuilt Roads, Wealth

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

Unbuilt Roads

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

U9892

16.02.1997

Fax Transmission - Raymond Pettibone and Jason Rhoades

Unbuilt Roads

Fax to: HANS-ULRICH OBRIST From Jason Rhoades Greeting HAN-ULRICH Well the project sounded great but I didn't have any unfulfilled projects that I sad appropriate for the project, but just last sunday I was at the race track with raymon pettibone ...

Animals, Collaboration, Fire, Horse, 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

U9838

01.01.1985

Notebook Page: Home in the Form of a Banana with Garage, - Claes Oldenburg

Unbuilt Roads

Pencil and watercolor on paper, 5 3/4 x 4 in. (14.6 x 10.2 cm) ...

Banana, Drawing, Fruit, Notebook, 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

U9701

01.01.1994

Festival du film de famille - Pierre Huyghe

Unbuilt Roads

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

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

U9548

01.01.1997

Why New Worlds Conceived by Artists Do Not Get Built - Peter Fend

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Art, being a permutation or adaptation of that which is known, bodies forth the new. It bodies forth, at the least, mutations. These mutations, curiously, coincide with other fields of innovation, such as science and technology. And the mutations, t ...

Architecture, Invention, Mutations, Nam June Paik, Science, Society, Technology, Unbuilt Roads, World

U9764

01.01.1974

Just Before Dawn - David Lamelas

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Color/16m.m - 50 minutes/£800 JUST BEFORE DAWN by Davd Lamelas The project is basically an analysis of the elements by which narative primarily works on Film Narrative conventions. There is already something that we understand as "comme ...

Film, Hollywood, London, Mystery, Time, 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

U9696

01.01.1993

Ceinture - Huang Ping Yong

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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 ...

Belt, Insects, Installation, Pompidou, Unbuilt Roads

U9528

01.01.1988

Billboard - Jimmie Durham

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a "U.S, Highway" - size billboard structure built along some street or auto-route. It would be complete with lights, but built on a structure to look at, that is to say, without a 'message' Without text or images superimposed. (eventually reasons why ...

America, Billboard, Commerical, Ireland

U9747

01.01.1968

A House of Dust - Alison Knowles

Unbuilt Roads

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 ...

Computer, Language, Poetry, Technology, Unbuilt Roads

U9248

14.02.1997

Electronic Theater - Laurie Anderson

Unbuilt Roads

Dear Hans-Ulrich Obrist, I'm sending some images to you on disk. There are four stills of a theater set. (et 1 and et 2 on the first disk and et 3 and et5 on the second disk.) These are printable using Photoshop 3.0. Here is the text you asked for ...

Set Design, Technology, Theater, Unbuilt Roads

U9277

01.01.1997

PROPOSALl + VOORSTEL - Guillame Bijl

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An abstract sculpture is standing on an ellipse pavement platform, surrounded by city lights, a city seal and a small flower arrangement. Een buitenaards stalen abstract object (±7m) is midden in de stadskem geland. Er zijn balustraden rond gebouwd. ...

Abstract, Public art, Sculpture, Unbuilt Roads

U9538

01.01.1996

The Clock - Ayse Erkmen

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The location is Domplatz, Münster. The Place is the reconstructed wall at the west wing of the Dome. This was the previous entrance of the Dome before it was destroyed in the way. It does not have an entrance any more but has twelve large windows forming ...

Clock, Dome, Münster, Perspective, Roses, Time, Windows

U9882

23.01.1964

Time Magazine Cover - Robert Rauschenberg

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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 ...

Design, magazine, New York City, Time Magazine, Unbuilt Roads

U9253

01.01.1969

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

Unbuilt Roads

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

U9823

13.02.1997

Project tor the Veterans Administration Hospital--Bay Pines, Florida. - Robert Morris

Unbuilt Roads

13 Feb 97 Att: Hans Ulrich Obrist From: R. Morris (fax:914-255-2781) Re: Unbuilt Roads Dear Hans Ulrich Obrist, Thanks for you recent fax inviting me to participate in your project. I send along some information about a project that might be ...

America, Atomic Bomb, Navy, Unbuilt Roads, Veterans, War

U9779

01.01.1988

Relatum (Iron Plate and Stone) - Lee Ufan

Unbuilt Roads

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

U9983

01.01.1994

To Two Too; Hypothetical Monument for a Natural Disaster - Jeffrey Wisniewski

Unbuilt Roads

(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

U9913

01.01.1974

654 THINGS from The United States - Edward Ruscha

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This was a proposal for the Defense Urban Development area in the city of Paris. The work, which takes on the appearance of a monument, would consist of stone or marble plates, bolted together to create a weather proof box-shaped container, housing shelve ...

America, Mounment, Paris, Time, Time Capsule, Unbuilt Roads