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Elmgreen & Dragset

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‘It’s never too late to say sorry’ (2012) by Elmgreen and Dragset.

Public sculpture consisting of a carefully designed museological display case containing a polished, stainless steel megaphone on a granite pedestal. Every day at 12 o’ clock sharp, a man will appear at the display case, open the door, take out the megaphone, and shout out over the Coolsingel, Rotterdam (NL): “It’s never too late to say sorry”.


Jolene

Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene‘ played at 33 rpm.


Erik Thys

Choral piece by Erik Thys, “Das Wunder des Lebens” (Canon for 6 voices), performed by Chor im Hemd, Andreas Salzbrunn.

Opening performance for the exhibition “Das Wunder des Lebens. Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys“, Kunsthalle Vienna, Feb. 6 2014.


Chris Brans

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‘Wolk (Cloud)’ (2009) by Chris Brans.


Louise Lawler

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‘Birdcalls’ (1972) by Louise Lawler.

Louise Lawler transformed each name of a male contemporary artist into a specific birdcall and recorded the sound. Listen to them here.


Nathan Gray

‘Species of Spaces’ (2014) by Nathan Gray.

An acoustic tour of Cockatoo Island, using found objects as percussive tools to strike against the industrial built-environment there.


Maurice Bogaert

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‘No Overview’ (fragment) (2014) by Maurice Bogaert.

No Overview shows a series of works made over the last three years. The different works merge into one large scale installation.


Utopian Tours

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Conceptual drawings of what tourism in North Korea might look like in the future, created by North Korean architects. (Project commissioned by Nick Bonner in 2014.)


Mircea Cantor

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‘Wind Orchestra’ (2012) by Mircea Cantor. Watch video here.


Wolfgang Weileder

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‘Slapende meermin’ (2008) by Wolfgang Weileder.

A full-scale copy of the façade of a historical building (named ‘In de meermin – a la sirene’) in Leuven, turned by 90 degrees.