Willem Claassen, ‘Zwarte piste’ (2009)
Zwarte Piet
Davide Balula
Davide Balula, ‘Heartbeat Exciter (Stimulateur cardiaque)’ (2006)
Recordings of human heartbeats at different speeds sending magnetic charges into the plants.
Aids-3D
‘Oh my God’, by Aids-3D (200?)
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The Crow
On March 31, 1993, while making The Crow, the crew filmed a scene in which Brandon Lee’s character walked into his apartment and discovered his girlfriend being raped by thugs. Actor Michael Massee, who played one of the film’s villains (Fun-boy), was supposed to fire a gun at Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) as he walked into his apartment.
When the blank was fired, the bullet shot out and hit Lee in the abdomen and lodged in his spine. He fell down instantly and the director shouted “Cut!”. When Lee did not respond, the cast and crew rushed to him and found that he was wounded. He was immediately rushed to the hospital. Lee’s heart stopped once on the set and once in the ambulance. Following a six hour operation to remove the bullet, and despite being given 60 pints (or 28 liters) of blood, Lee was pronounced dead at 1:03 pm on March 31, 1993. He was 28 years old.
Claire Fontaine
Claire Fontaine, ‘Change’ (2005)
Twelve twenty-five cent coins, steel box-cutter blades, solder and rivets.
Stefaan Dheedene – ‘Billy’
Stefaan D’heedene, ‘Billy’ (2006)
Stefaan Dheedene bought a piece of furniture from the Billy series at Ikea. But the day before the exhibition opened, Dheedene took Billy back to Ikea. He received back the money he invested.
In the time before the opening the artist had hired a carpenter who reconstructed the mass-produced Billy as a unique work of art, in a slightly more expensive and nicer type of wood.
Billy’s next buyer must’ve been a happy consumer…
Piero Manzoni
‘Artist’s Shit’ (1961) by Piero Manzoni.
Each 30-gram can was priced by weight based on the current value of gold (around $1.12 a gram in 1961).
GWEI.com
“GWEI (Google will eat itself) generates money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money they automatically buy Google shares. They buy Google via their own advertisement!” Google will eat itself.