Tag Archives: commerce


Ryan Siegan-Smith

Ryan Siegan-Smith, ‘I don’t want to make a book’ (2007)

Not a book.

Read More »


Oskar Dawicki

oskar-dawicki_sorry

Oskar Dawicki, ‘I’m sorry’ (2010)

Live in front of the audience Dawicki reads a text explaining he’s sorry for the failed performance he’s giving. Finally, to make up for wasting the audience’s time and the curator’s chance of putting on a good show, he hands out sweets while a taperecorder plays the sound of him crying and once more apologizing.

A performance seen in Rotterdam during Witte de With’s performance cycle ‘Let us compare mythologies’. Pictures by Peter Rakossy.

oskar-dawicki_sorry2

oskar-dawicki_sorry1

More fine work by Dawicki downstairs….

Read More »


Water on Mars

WaterOnMars2_gcc

Unfortunately, I have no idea where I found this…


Tris Vonna-Michell

Tris Vonna-Michell, The Trades of Others 2008. Performance still

Tris Vonna-Michell, ‘The trades of others’. Performance still (2008)

Vonna-Michell’s performances and installations function as chapters within a non-linear story, combining personal myth with historical traces.

Interview here

Read More »


Katinka Pilscheur

pilscheur, Dortmunder Kunstverein _ solo _ 2009

Katinka Pilscheur, exhibition overview at Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2009

Read More »


No love in an elevator

Watch the top right surveillance screen.

This is sped-up footage of mr. Nicholas White trapped in an elevator in the McGraw-Hill Building for 41 hours, after having a cigarette for lunch outside.

The story and some more facts about elevators, as featured in the New Yorker, here.


Hotel Vue des Alpes

hotel_vue_alpes

‘Hotel Vue des Alpes’ is a fictional, hotel, accessable only through the internet. Visitors can log in to the website, book a room and walk around to enjoy the scenery. You can stay there for a few days (short stay only)… The view from the rooms is breathtaking!

It is a project by Monica Studer and Christoph van den Berg

Read More »


The Space Chair Project (Commercial)

Commercial for Toshiba, by Grey London Agency

I like it.


GWEI.com

GWEI_SYSTEM

“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.


Helmut Smits

boomvoorbillboard1

boomvoorbillboard2

Helmut Smits, ‘Boom voor billboard (tree in front of billboard)’ (2006)


Aids-3D

ohmygod

‘Oh my God’, by Aids-3D (200?)

Click on ‘Read more’ for a random selection of their fine gallery of randomly found internet images. (Don’t worry, it’s office-friendly. Your boss won’t mind…)

Read More »


Dick Dale on DIY

Interview with the king of surf, Dick Dale, about DIY.

Thanks to Jan!


Sony Bravia

Couldn’t resist… The commercial for Sony’s line of Bravia TV’s.

Read More »


Robert Morris

robertmorrisboxwiththesoundofitsownmaking_1

Robert Morris, ‘Box with the sound of its own making’ (1961)


Stefaan Dheedene – ‘Billy’

dheedene 2

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…


 1 2 Previous