Simon Faithfull, ‘Accident book’ (2009)
Accident Book is an intervention in eight Accident and Emergency wards across London and Cambridge. The book tells the story of 33 accidents that befell the writer over a period of 42 years.
From June 2009 onwards, people waiting for treatment, prognoses or friends, began to discover books lying amongst the copies of old magazines in these Accident and Emergency wards. The 500 copies of Accident Book distributed through these eight hospitals are each individually numbered and the finders of these books are encouraged to take them home but also to register them here.
Two examples:
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Also tagged accident book, action, adolescense, book, DIY, emergency, fuckem, gut, hospital, installation, ouch, public art, region, relational aesthetics, sculpture, simon faithfull, stories, strangers, toes
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Jon Sasaki, ‘Flyguy triggering his own motion sensor’ (2010)
A flyguy (one of the familiar dancing inflatables that wave people into carwashes and fast food restaurants) has been moved into the gallery and hooked up to a motion sensor.
Click here to view a videoclip
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Also tagged action, best friends, black light, blog, canadian, cn-tower, danger, decomment, DIY, fireworks, flyguy, fuckem, inflatable, installation, joke, jon sasaki, light, mascot, mechanical sculpture, motion sensor, performance, romance, sasaki, sculpture, second-hand, the wild, thrift store, unknown, violence, y2k
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Ingo Vetter (for the Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop), ‘Adaptation Laboratory’ (2004)
Exhaust-air driven greenhouse growing a ‘Tree of Heaven’ (Ailanthus altissima), a rare deciduous tree of tropical origin.
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Also tagged action, detroit tree of heaven woodshop, DIY, fuckem, greenhouse, growing, ingo vetter, installation, klimakapseln, light, muur, nature, public art, romance, sculpture, street view, the wild, tree, tree of heaven, unknown, wall
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Also tagged action, car, cars, DIY, fuckem, joke, lol, performance, photo, photograph, portraits, sculpture, unknown, video, Vladimir Nikolic
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Sjaak Langenberg, ‘Mental expansion of Schiphol Airport’ (1999)
The school canteen of Cals College in the Dutch town of IJsselstein was connected live, at varying times each day, with the announcement headquarters of Amsterdam Airport, Schiphol. This audio art-work was provoked by the link between noise pollution around Schiphol airport and the Lopik broadcasting mast, which causes IJsselstein particular nuisance.
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Also tagged action, airport, broadcast, canteen, fuckem, high school, installation, langenberg, live, nature, public art, relational aesthetics, schiphol, school, sjaak langenberg, text, unknown, wall
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Also tagged action, avi, avi krispin, fast, fuckem, joke, performance, pitch, romance, steven, steven de jong, steven's pitch, titanic, video, youtube
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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.
More fine work by Dawicki downstairs….
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Also tagged action, advertising, apologies, audience, best before, commerce, dawicki, decomment, DIY, expiration, festival, fuckem, humour, i'm sorry, installation, joke, let us compare mythologies, light, live, muur, oskar dawicki, performance, poland, polish, products, project, romance, rotterdam, trash, unknown, vanitas, wall, wdw, Witte de With
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The following pictures were taken at the Dia:Beacon, one of the Dia Art Foundation‘s residencies in the state of New York. They have an impressive collection of iconic pieces of art, and each artist has their own room inside their wonderful building, the former Nabisco box printing facility built in 1929.
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Also tagged 60s, 70s, action, America, Andy Warhol, anna, beacon, blog, dan flavin, dia art foundation, dia:beacon, fuckem, icons, imi knoebel, installation, john chamberlain, light, louise bourgeois, michael heizer, minimalism, museum, muur, nature, New York, richard serra, romance, sculpture, sky, Sol LeWitt, steel, travels, unknown, visit, wall, walter de maria
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Jon Sasaki
Jon Sasaki, ‘Flyguy triggering his own motion sensor’ (2010)
A flyguy (one of the familiar dancing inflatables that wave people into carwashes and fast food restaurants) has been moved into the gallery and hooked up to a motion sensor.
Click here to view a videoclip
Read More »