Julien Bismuth, ‘The saddest funniest sculpture in the world’ (2007)
The saddest funniest sculpture in the world’ – Performance.
‘The saddest funniest sculpture in the world’ – Installation view.
Simon Faithfull
Simon Faithfull, ‘Accident book’ (2009)
Accident Book is an intervention in eight Accident and Emergency wards across London and Cambridge. The book tells the story of 33 accidents that befell the writer over a period of 42 years.
From June 2009 onwards, people waiting for treatment, prognoses or friends, began to discover books lying amongst the copies of old magazines in these Accident and Emergency wards. The 500 copies of Accident Book distributed through these eight hospitals are each individually numbered and the finders of these books are encouraged to take them home but also to register them here.
Two examples:
Ingo Vetter
Ingo Vetter (for the Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop), ‘Adaptation Laboratory’ (2004)
Exhaust-air driven greenhouse growing a ‘Tree of Heaven’ (Ailanthus altissima), a rare deciduous tree of tropical origin.
Lawnchair Larry
In 1982 Larry Walters, nicknamed ‘Lawnchair Larry’, travelled to an altitude of over 15.000 feet (4600 m.) strapped to an ordinary lawn chair with 45 helium-filled weather balloons attached to it.
Also see this post: The space chair project (commercial)
Jon Rafman
‘DeLorean reflecting a Gerhard Richter painting’ (2010)
‘Hummer reflecting an Ellsworth Kelly’ (2010)
‘Honda Civic reflecting a Monet’ (2010) by Jon Rafman.
View a lot of other paintjobs by Jon Rafman at Brandnewpaintjob.com.
Robert Wechsler
‘Harness’ (2006)
The compulsive energy of a running mouse generates a music box (Brahm’s Lullaby).
‘Applied geometry’ (2004)
‘Vacancy’ (2006) (altered toaster) by Robert Wechsler.
Maria Anwander
‘My Most Favourite Art’ (2004 – 2009)
My Most Favourite Art’ is an installation made of exhibition plates, which Maria Anwander has stolen and collected from different galeries and museums since 2004. Only criterion for the theft of a plate is her fascination for the work which belongs to it.
‘Everyones’ Best Friends’ (2009) by Maria Anwander.
Cutouts of banknote-portraits from eight different currencies. (via)
Bas Schevers
‘Federer – Nadal, Heiliger – Bill’ (2007)
‘Woman, Voice, Car, Horn’ (2010) by Bas Schevers.
More recent work by Bas:
Pied la Biche
‘Refait’ (2009) by Pied la Biche.
‘Refait’ is a remake of the football WorldCup match between France and Germany (Seville, Spain, 1982). Shot by Pied La Biche in Villeurbanne (France), every aspect of the fifteen last minutes of the match was carefully reconstructed : players, positions, gestures, intensity, drama etc. It consists in shifting the traditional game area into the urban environment. Each sequence takes place in one or several locations and then the city temporarily becomes the lab for unsual experiments.
A way to overcome a lost football match…
Harun Farocki
‘Deep Play’ (2007) by Harun Farocki.
‘Deep Play’ brings together 12 different perspectives on one of the biggest broadcasting events ever – the 2006 FIFA World Cup held in Germany, seen by an estimated 1.5 billion viewers worldwide. The screens combine the artist’s own footage, FIFA footage, digital analyses and 2D and 3D animation sequences, so that we see the event from unexpected viewpoints.
Jon Sasaki
Jon Sasaki, ‘Flyguy triggering his own motion sensor’ (2010)
A flyguy (one of the familiar dancing inflatables that wave people into carwashes and fast food restaurants) has been moved into the gallery and hooked up to a motion sensor.
Click here to view a videoclip
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