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Vaast Colson

‘Though a lie be swift, the truth overtakes it. Ten fibs I told as a child’ (2006) by Vaast Colson

Ten lies Vaast Colson told as a child were printed on 500 white balloons. Each balloon is accompanied by a mini-disc on which Colson explains the project and a signed and numbered information card. During the opening the balloons were filled with helium and released. The people who found a balloon were invited to send a photograph of themselves with the balloon. The most distant balloon thus far was found at 770 km from Antwerp.

By mh | Posted in Abstraction | Also tagged action, anecdotes, balloons, cds, child, DIY, event, fibs, fuckem, fun, lies, narration, performance, public art, relational aesthetics, small, speech, ten, text, told, unknown, Vaast Colson, wind | Comments (0)

Ruth Ewan

Ruth Ewan, ‘A Jukebox of People Trying to Change the World’ (2003)

A Jukebox of People Trying to Change the World is a CD jukebox, sitting between digital and analogue technologies which contains a growing collection of songs addressing a spectrum of social issues, some directly political in motive, some vaguely utopian and some chronicling specific historic events. The archive currently contains over 2,000 tracks, with no more than two by the same artist, which are ordered into over seventy categories such as feminism, land ownership, poverty, civil rights and ecology.

Via Diana. So thanks!

By mh | Posted in Composition | Also tagged change, idealism, joke, jukebox, music, optimism, people, romance, ruth ewan, songs, text, trying, world | Comments (0)

Hans-Peter Feldmann

Hans-Peter Feldmann, ‘Pictures of car radios taken while good music was playing’ (2004)

By mh | Posted in Abstraction | Also tagged action, car, DIY, fuckem, fun, good, hans-peter feldmann, music, photo, photograph, pictures, playing, radios, text, unknown, wall | Comments (0)

Frederik Kunkel

‘White spots’ (2006) by Frederik Kunkel

33 cars of the same color parked in or driving around the city of München.

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Sophie Calle

‘Suite Vénitienne’ (1980) by Sophie Calle

‘For months I followed strangers in the street. For the pleasure of following them, not because they particularly interested me. I photographed them without their knowledge, took note of their movements, then finally lost sight of them and forgot them.

At the end of January 1980, on the streets of Paris, I followed a man whom I lost sight of a few minutes later in the crowd. That very evening, by chance, he was introduced to me at an opening. During the course of our conversation, he told me he was planning an imminent trip to Venice.’

Suddenly, the narrator decided to join him. The next morning, armed with a camera and a blonde wig, she took the train to Venice, where she discovered where he was staying, then shadowed him, taking photographs where she could.