‘Res Publica’ (2012) by Wolfgang Weileder.
This temporary installation combined three distinct elements. A stainless steel leaflet dispenser was positioned on the pavement outside the Supreme Court in Washington DC. Presented as a miniature Palladian temple based on the proportions the Court building, the dispenser contained an edition of printed plans for making a 1:50 scale architectural cardboard model of the Supreme Court. Meanwhile four cardboard versions of the model were installed at various locations around the city which had associations with privilege and homelessness. These models were deliberately left to the mercy of the weather and the urban environment.
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Tagged building, cardboard, DIY, edition, hand out, homeless, model, pavement, print, remple, res publica, supreme court, temple, temporary, Washington DC, Wolfgang Eileder
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‘Cosmopolitan Chicken Project’ (1999-ongoing) by Koen Vanmechelen.
Vanmechelen interbreeds domestic chickens from different countries aiming at the creation of a true cosmopolitan chicken.
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Tagged animal, bird, breed, ccp, chicken, cosmopolitan, country, cross, crossbreed, DIY, national, project, world
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‘Drosophila Titanus’ (2011-ongoing) by Hostprods (Andy Gracie).
An attempt to breed a new species of fruit fly which is theoretically suitable for life on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn and, so far, the most Earth-like place known to man.
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Tagged Andy Gracie, breed, DIY, Drosophila Titanus, earth, fruit fly, hostprods, insect, life, moon, saturn, space, Titan
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‘Trying to build a mask with a box of a smart phone’ (2013) by Judith Hopf.
After de fall of the iron wall in 1989, several monuments and statues from Hungary’s communist period were, in stead of being destroyed, collected and placed together in Memento Park, in Budapest.
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Tagged Budapest, collection, communist, Engels, Hungary, Lenin, Marx, Memento Park, monument, pedestal, sculpture, stalin, statue
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The Goddess of Democracy was a 10-meter-tall (33 ft) statue created during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 in Beijing, China. The statue was constructed in only four days out of foam and papier-mâché over a metal armature. The constructors decided to make the statue as large as possible so the government would be unable to dismantle it. The government would either have to destroy the statue—an action which would potentially fuel further criticism of its policies—or leave it standing. Despite these efforts, the statue was destroyed by soldiers clearing the square of protesters, but has been copied a number of times.
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Tagged 1989, Beijing, China, DIY, foam, goddess of democracy, papier-mache, protests, sculpture, statue, Tiananmen
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‘We The People’ (2011-2013) by Danh Vo.
A full scale replica of the Statue of Liberty in New York, built in a workshop in Shanghai. The statue has not been welded together, but has been split into approximately 400 fragments that have been scattered across the entire world.
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Tagged copper, copy, danh vo, fragment, liberty, metal, New York, piece, replica, sculpture, shanghai, statue, statue of liberty, world
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‘Untitled (Unfinished hand)’ (2006) by Peter Coffin.
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Tagged coffin, DIY, finger, hand, Peter Coffin, plinth, room, sculpture, unfinished, wall, what's in a name, wood
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