‘Vom Hören sagen’ (2000) by Suchan Kinoshita & Hasje Boeyen. (via kunstwegen.org)
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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Pawel Althamer
‘Path’ (2007) by Pawel Althamer.
For sculpture projects münster 07, Pawel Althamer constructed a path.
Dussen
More action:
Old news from 2007;
In Dussen (Brabant, NL) a man drove around in a cornfield for hours on end under the influence of cocaine. The result was the piece above.
Signer’s Suitcase
A scene from ‘Signer’s Suitcase’ (1996), a documentary about Roman Signer.
Signers Koffer (Signer’s Suitcase) is a kind of road movie that takes us right across Europe. From the Swiss Alps to eastern Poland, from Stromboli to Iceland. Always following the magically charged “groove” of the landscape…
Directed by Peter Liechti. Some more scenes:
Zimoun
‘25 woodworms, wood, microphone, sound system’, a very nice work by Swiss sound-artist Zimoun.
Video:
Robotic chair
‘Robotic chair‘ (2006) by Max Dean, Raffaello D’Andrea & Matt Donovan.
The Robotic Chair (1984 – 2006) is a generic-looking wooden chair with the capacity to fall apart and put itself back together.
Momoyo Torimitsu
Momoyo Torimitsu, ‘Miyata Jiro’ (1997)
The Japanese (but New York resident) artist Momoyo Torimitsu built a robot that resembles a businessman. It can crawl the streets of whichever city he places it. Video:
Now, the Japanese have put quite some more time and effort into building weird animatronics/robotics. Click on Read More to see a few more examples.
Gianni Motti
Gianni Motti, ‘Finishing’ (2000)
The day of the opening coincided with the marathon of Bienne. Gianni Motti moved the finishing line, adding an extra three meters to the distance of the race.
Christopher Richmond
Christopher Richmond, ‘Chasing the horizon’ (2008)
A performance where Richmond runs after the horizon for as long as it is in his sight.
Found on the website of the wonderful Szpilman Awards.
Cory Arcangel
Arnold Schönberg’s, Drei Klavierstücke, op. 11-I (1909) played by cats on pianos,
by Cory Arcangel (2009).
Schönberg’s Op. 11 is often considered the first piece of “atonal” music, or music to completely break from traditional western harmony which means it’s not written in a “key”.
Peter Coffin
Peter Coffin, ‘Untitled (Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes mystic truths)’ (2006)
Jasper Elings
‘Sharing a beautiful sunset’ (2009) by Jasper Elings. Watch the video.
A video composed of images of sunsets, found by Google image search.
Wolfgang Plöger
‘Me in front of‘, concept by Wolfgang Plöger (2004).
Wolfgang Plöger initiated a google image search with the words ‘me in front of‘. The results are hundreds of pictures of people standing in front of something that is important to them.
“Sorry about my finger”
I love this series on Google:
“sorry about my finger – google image search”, Via sympathyfortheartgallery.com
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
‘Roman de Münster (Münster Roman)’ (2007) by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster.
Skulptur Projekte Münster 2007.
The artist presents a theme park composed of 1:4-scale replicas of selected sculptures from past Skulptur Projekte exhibitions – concrete and metal quotations of the original works. Every object is a precise reproduction of the original and is set in relation to the others.
Window of the world – Shenzhen
The Window of the World is a theme park located in Shenzhen in the People’s Republic of China. It has about 130 reproductions of some of the most famous tourist attractions in the world squeezed into 48 hectares.
Pierre Huyghe
Pierre Huyghe, ‘Timekeeper’ (1999)
By scraping away layers of paint on the wall of the Viennese Secession, Huyghe ‘revealed’ successive exhibition views.
Sam Durant
Sam Durant, ‘Bordeaux statue of liberty’, from the series ‘Defaced monuments’, an ongoing collection of statues, sculptures, memorials, markers and monuments that have been intentionally or unintentionally altered, damaged or destroyed as a political statement or during a political protest.
There are four replicas of the Statue of Liberty (given to the U.S. by the French in 1886) in France. This one, an 8 ft., bronze statue, was erected in 2000 in Bordeaux. The original replica had been erected in 1887 but was dismantled and melted for scrap metal by Nazis in WWII. A plaque honoring the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks was added to the second statue later. On the night of March 25, 2003, in what is believed to be an anti-war or perhaps anti-American statement, red paint was poured on the statue. It was lit with gasoline and the face was blackened by fire. The plaque commemorating the victims of September 11th was also cracked.
Interview with Durant below.
Hedwig Houben @ Galerie Gallery
Just to remind you all:
Tomorrow, Friday the 6th, is the opening of Hedwig Houben’s show @ Galerie Gallery. We would like to invite you all to come to the opening and see new work by Hedwig. Also, she will be doing a live performance, so don’t be late!
Opening @ Galerie Gallery, from 18.30hrs on. Dordtselaan 27e, Rotterdam. (close to metro Maashaven). More info here…
George Dubinsky
‘Broken Arm Chair’ by George Dubinsky
Hihi.