Jan Dibbets, ‘Museum Sokkel met vier hoeken van 90°’ (‘Museum plinth with four corners at an angle of 90°’ (1969)
Dibbets dug out the four corners of the Stedelijk Museum to expose the building’s ‘plinth’.
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Cyprien Gaillard
‘Dunepark’ (2009) by Cyprien Gaillard
Gaillard uncovered a World War II bunker buried in a hill in The Hague.
Derek Brunen
‘Plot’ (2007) by Derek Brunen
Brunen bought a plot of land in a cemetary and dug his own grave there as a performance. The video’s original running time is 6 hrs. 15 mins.
‘Plot (From Above)’ 2007
‘Plot (Tombstone)’ (2008)
Hans Schabus
Hans Schabus, ‘The Shaft Of Babel’ (2003).
Over days, Schabus dug a 15 feet deep hole in his studio and shifted the earth to a pile.
Nickolaj Recke
Nickolaj Recke, ‘Tomorrow is today’ (2006)
The video shows two parallel projections, one from each side of the date line, thus conceptually creating a visual space where you can simultaneously perceive two days; a space that does not exists in physical reality and a space where there are principally no todays, just yesterdays and tomorrows.
Tomorrow
Yesterday
A man standing on the dateline/180° Meridian, one leg in today, the other in either yesterday or tomorrow.
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