Unbuilt Roads | Agency of Unrealized Projects

U9517

01.01.1990

<A Public Misery Message> - Critical Art Ensemble

Unbuilt Roads

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

U9887

01.01.1995

MODELL OF AN OFFICE FOR A COUPLE OF TWINS, BOTH 1,38 TALL" - Tobias Rehrenberg

Unbuilt Roads

WOOD, PLASTIC, 2 CHAIRS ca 180 x 150 x 170 cm PIECE OF THE SHOW "CANCELLED PROJECTS" IN MUSEUM FRIEDERICIANUM KASSEL SUMMER 95 Previous Publications (?) NO Existing Documents (photos, drawings, models): ENCLOSED ...

Installation, Museum, Office, Twins, Unbuilt Roads

U9936

23.01.1997

Messages to the Public - Nancy Spero

Unbuilt Roads

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

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

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

U9793

01.01.1997

Isometric Projection - Sol Lewitt

Unbuilt Roads

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Architecture, Measurement, Sculputure, Unbuilt Roads

U9268

24.02.1997

The lmprobable Flow - Larry Bell

Unbuilt Roads

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

U9557

23.04.1997

Eislandschaft - P. Fischli und D. Weiss

Unbuilt Roads

HEIZKRAFTWERK RÖMERBRUCKE STADTWERKE SAARBROCKEN - KUNSTPROJEKT - Bauherr: Stadtwerke Saarbrücken Projekt 3: "Eislandschaft" Künstler: P. Fischli und D. Weiss, Zürich Architekten: PAS, Jourdan und Müller Lage und Baubeschreibung ...

Energie, Energy, ice, Landscape, Landschaft, Science, Sculpture, Unbuilt Roads

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

U9882

23.01.1964

Time Magazine Cover - Robert Rauschenberg

Unbuilt Roads

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

U9945

01.01.1994

MAK - Wien - Rosemarie Trockel

Unbuilt Roads

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

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

U9843

01.01.1996

Aguapracasa - Gabriel Orozco

Unbuilt Roads

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 ...

Architecture, India, Time, Unbuilt Roads, Water

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

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

U9988

01.10.1987

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 ...

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

U9807

01.01.1997

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 ...

Cube, Mythology, Trees, Unbuilt Roads, Wood

U9293

01.01.1978

The World is a Theater and we each have a role - Louise Bourgeois

Unbuilt Roads

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

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

U9548

01.01.1997

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

Unbuilt Roads

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

U9646

16.01.1997

Dog Jaw Monument - A Futurist Tele-introject - Leon Golub

Unbuilt Roads

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

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

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

U9285

01.01.1969

Monumento all'agricoltura 1969-70 - Alighiero Boetti

Unbuilt Roads

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

U9562

01.01.1994

Catwalk - Sylive Fleury

Unbuilt Roads

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

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

U9510

01.01.1997

Der New-Babyloner - Constant

Unbuilt Roads

Die Automation verspricht uns eine Produktion, die die Bedürfnisse aller Menschen ohne menschliche Arbeitsleistung zufriedenstellt. Die Arbeit des Menschen ist nicht länger ein unumgängliches Produktionsmittel. Der Mensch steht erste. malig vor der Tat ...

Labour, Public, Society, Space, Time, Unbuilt Roads