Achille Devéria, ‘The Puppets’ (1824)
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Gabrielle De Vietri
Gabrielle De Vietri, ‘Dumpster Feast’ (2004)
Feast prepared from food recovered from supermarket and shop bins over one day.
Pawel Szostak
Pawel Szostak, ‘I’ve got art in my tummy’ (2011-2012)
Szostak went to pizza-restaurants in Vienna to trade prints of famous paintings with a pizza photoshopped into them for the pizza depicted in the print.
Amalia Pica
Amalia Pica, ‘I am Tower of Hamlets, as I am in Tower of Hamlets, just like a lot of other people are’ (2011-2012)
Sculpture based on the Echevaria plant, a species native to South America but popular in domestic environments world-wide due to its ability to thrive under any condition.
Residents of Tower Hamlets are invited to look after the sculpture (hand carved by Pica in pink granite) for one week, then passing it on to the next participant. This exchange happens every Saturday throughout the year. The sculpture’s travels will be recorded on a ‘lending card’, serving as a document of the meetings and exchanges between neighbours that made its journey possible. In June 2012, the sculpture will return to the gallery.
Merlin Carpenter
‘Make your own life’ (2006) by Merlin Carpenter
Carpenter asked ICA Philadelphia to provide him with $4,000 cash. The artist then went on a shopping spree, consuming all kinds of luxury goods and services. In the end, only the receipts and empty shopping bags were exhibited.
Christin Lahr
‘Macht Geschenke: Das Kapital’ (2009 – ca. 2052) by Christin Lahr
Every day, for about 43 years, Lahr will be transferring a donation of 1 cent to the German Ministry of Finance, accompanied with 108 letters from Marx’s ‘Das Kapital’.