Michael DeLucia, ‘Corner’ (2008)
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Hugh Pocock
Stills from ‘Living with a log’ (1998) by Hugh Pocock (video on his website)
Pocock found a huge tree trunk and brought it home, where it ran through the center of his house like a spine, and he and his family lived with it.
Dario Robleto
Dario Robleto, ‘Sometimes Billie Is All That Holds Me Together’ (1998)
Buttons crafted from melted Billie Holiday vinyl records.
Eric Von Robertson
‘Desert Lodge’ by Eric Von Robertson
The Desert lodge is a prototype for a makeshift shelter used for getting from here to there – a synthetic tumbleweed drifting in the wind. It plays on an intuitive sense of geometry and lightweight structures. The Lodge traverses diverse zones in an attempt to be realized, from an instore prototyping demonstration in IKEA to the High Plains mesas in Arizona, the Lodge is in a constant state of motion.
Joe Scanlan
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.
Adam Vackar
‘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.
Sven Fritz
‘Gastroliths’ (2011) by Sven Fritz
‘Gastroliths’ is a collection of 1088 pictures of pebbles from the stomach of one capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), a large bird living in old pineforests situated in rocky territory. Most herbivorous birds eat stones to help grind their food.
Florian Riviere
‘Games for boring openings’ by Florian Rivie?re
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