Joe Scanlan, ‘DIY or How to Kill Yourself Anywhere in the World for Under $399’ (2002)
The book ‘DIY’ presents a plan for how to go into any IKEA store in the world and buy materials with which to build your own coffin. As is the case with all Do-It-Yourself projects, some basic skills and tools are required.
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Also tagged book, coffin, construct, death, dismantle, DIY, fuckem, fun, Ikea, installation, Joe Scanlan, joke, light, mortuary, romance, sculpture, skills, tools, trash
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‘Main d’œuvre’ (2008) by Adam Vackar
In the project Main d’œuvre,Vackar invited a worker to an academy of fine arts to make his own self-portrait in clay. In the fifties under the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, as part of the communist utopia, workers were invited to make and teach art at the art schools.
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Also tagged adam vackar, Art, clay, communism, czech, displacement, DIY, history, main d'œuvre, performance, portrait, romance, sculpture, unknown, utopia, video, worker
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‘Phantom 00’ by Sonja Feldmeier
Feldmeier looked for individuals who believe in or admire an idol. These persons had to describe the faces of their idols using only their imagination. A digital picture archive and software used by the criminal police to create identikit pictures was used as basic drawing material.
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Also tagged admiration, belief, charles manson, compositional, computer, description, drawing, fans, identikit, idols, imagination, marilyn monroe, police, posters, relational aesthetics, romance, sketches, software, sonja feldmeier
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Henrik Menné, ‘Stone and stone’ (2007)
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Also tagged Break, design, DIY, fuckem, henrik menné, installation, machine, mechanical sculpture, nature, pattern, rock, ruin, scrape, stone, the wild, traces, tracks, trash
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‘On the Museum’s Ruin (Morris – Hunt – Corbusier – Piano)’ (2010) by Liz Glynn
Created at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, designed by le Corbusier, during the renovation of the Fogg Museum of Art, initially designed by William Morris Hunt, with renovation by Renzo Piano. The chairs were cast based on Le Corbusier’s iconic LC2 design using rubble from the museum renovation.
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Posted in Abstraction
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Also tagged appropriate, cast, chairs, collection, design, DIY, fuckem, furniture, hunt, installation, Le Corbusier, liz glynn, morris, museum, piano, re-use, renovation, rubble, ruin, sculpture, the wild, trash, wall, waste
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Untitled, by Graham Hudson
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Also tagged bric-a-brac, collage, DIY, fuckem, fun, graham hudson, installation, lamps, lights, sculpture, the wild, trash, unknown, wood
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‘???’ (2011) by Ivan Moudov
Part of his installation/exhibition ‘%’ at W139, Amsterdam
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Also tagged %, amsterdam, close, door, fuckem, installation, ivan moudov, open, performance, relational aesthetics, stay, text, unknown, w139, wall
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Jimmy Robert, Untitled (2007) (detail)
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Also tagged boy, DIY, drop, fuckem, fun, gare saint-lazare, homage, humor, installation, jimmy robert, lady, old, pants, paper, paris, text, unknown, wall, young
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‘Monument to the Right Angle’ (2010) by Marthe Johnslien.
Florian Riviere
‘Games for boring openings’ by Florian Rivie?re
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