Extracts from an unpublished interview with Michael Archer for Phaidon press: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Extracts from an unpublished interview with Michael Archer for Phaidon press: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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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
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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
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In 1994, after several years of studying the history of calendars and their basis in the solar system, I designed a new calendar that was more "in tune" with my personal rhythms. Although it contained the same 365 days, the calendar was divided into 15 In
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In 1994, after several years of studying the history of calendars and their basis in the solar system, I designed a new calendar that was more "in tune" with my personal rhythms. Although it contained the same 365 days, the calendar was divided into 15 In
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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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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
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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
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Unrealized project for Tate Gallery + ICA, 1969 - Gilbert and George
Unbuilt Roads
Memo to: Director
From: Richard
Christmas Crib sculpture by Gilbert and George
Gilbert and George have asked if, despite our discouraging reply about their recent proposal to present a sculpture for one evening, I will present to you personally the
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Memo to: Director
From: Richard
Christmas Crib sculpture by Gilbert and George
Gilbert and George have asked if, despite our discouraging reply about their recent proposal to present a sculpture for one evening, I will present to you personally the
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Projet pour la Place Saint Léger à Chambery - Erik Dietman
Unbuilt Roads
Projet pour la Place Saint Léger à Chambery à l'occasion de l'exposition pour la préfiguration du Musée de sculptures de Buisson-Rond organisée par Françoise Guichon en 1982.
Comme toutes Jes places publiques, la Place Saint Léger est peuplée
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Projet pour la Place Saint Léger à Chambery à l'occasion de l'exposition pour la préfiguration du Musée de sculptures de Buisson-Rond organisée par Françoise Guichon en 1982.
Comme toutes Jes places publiques, la Place Saint Léger est peuplée
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Making for Art - 100 Unsucceeded Presentation - 1995, 1996, - Yutaka Sone
Unbuilt Roads
In this project, I visit one hundred curators individually who work at contemporary museum or make shows by their own style to present my works
But in this project, all my presentations must be rejected by all curators, which means each of them will en
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In this project, I visit one hundred curators individually who work at contemporary museum or make shows by their own style to present my works
But in this project, all my presentations must be rejected by all curators, which means each of them will en
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Cruzeiro Do Sul, (Southern Cross) (Crucero del Sur) 1969-70* - Cildo Meireles
Unbuilt Roads
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
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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
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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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City Hall Tower Night Ilumination - Krysztof Wodiczko
Unbuilt Roads
"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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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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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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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
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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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Geplanter Standort:
Naturwissenschaftliches Zentrum der Westfälischen Wilhelmsuniversität, Münster
Material:
Betonguß
Maße:
Tiefe 2,30 m, Breite 25,0 m, Länge 25,0 m
Note
The piece is a rhomboid square depression with the p
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Geplanter Standort:
Naturwissenschaftliches Zentrum der Westfälischen Wilhelmsuniversität, Münster
Material:
Betonguß
Maße:
Tiefe 2,30 m, Breite 25,0 m, Länge 25,0 m
Note
The piece is a rhomboid square depression with the p
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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
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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
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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
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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
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House with half sphere swimming pool in the center
(eventually reasons why the work has not been realised)
No Time
Previous Publications (?)
No
Existing Documents (photos, drawings, models):
Drawing
Other remarks
Designed after a v
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House with half sphere swimming pool in the center
(eventually reasons why the work has not been realised)
No Time
Previous Publications (?)
No
Existing Documents (photos, drawings, models):
Drawing
Other remarks
Designed after a v
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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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