Leopold Kessler, ‘Bistabilised door’ (2010)
Kessler changed the mechanics on the entrance to Lombard-Freid Projects in New York so that the door opened in a different direction each time it was used.
Tag Archives: public art
Helmut Dick
Helmut Dick‘s ‘Salad-field as big as a skyscraper’ (2001)
The field was situated in Gropiusstadt, Berlin-Neukölln, one of the biggest skyscraper settlements in Germany. The crops were gathered by neighborhood residents.
Hoefner & Sachs
‘Honey Neustadt’ by Franz Hoefner & Harry Sachs (2006)
A model of a city filled with one million bees placed in Berlin-Mitte. The honey that was gathered from these bees was given away to residents.
Marc Horowitz
‘The national dinner tour’ by Marc Horowitz
Horowitz was working as a photo assistant for Crate & Barrel. While on set one day, he wrote “dinner w/ marc 510-872-7326,” his name and cell phone, on a dry erase board featured in a desk product shot (above picture). A few months later, the catalog, containing his dinner invitation, was printed and sent to millions of people. Horowitz eventually received over 30,000 calls from people wanting to dine with him. As a result, he traveled the USA in a tiny RV for a year dining with strangers.
Weihnachtsmarktskulpturen
It’s Christmasmarket time in Germany and in Leipzig I saw this stall. It had some nice sculptures on its roof!
Maria Eichhorn
Maria Eichhorn‘s exhibition ‘Das Geld der Kunsthalle Bern / Money at the Kunsthalle Bern’ (2000) resulted from her research into funding of the exhibition and her decision to devote the entire budget for her show to the renovation of the building. The entire museum was on show during this renovation and visitors could watch the process from up close, even in rooms that were normally hidden from view.
The bottle tree
Being originally a Hoodoo custom (Hoodoo = a form of predominantly African-American traditional folk magic, mostly found in the Southern United States), bottle trees were made as a means of protecting the home by trapping evil spirits within the colorful bottles. Though scarce today, bottle trees are still created for their artistic appeal.
Christian N. Halsted and Jakob Ohrt / Doublethink Studio
‘Picadilly Circus’, an intervention by Christian Halsted and Jakob Ohrt (Doublethink Studio)
Halsted and Ohrt set up a free information service in one of the busiest areas of London and tried to give people whatever they wanted.
“The Doublethink Project is a research-project on various aspects of contemporary public service undertaken by Doublethink. In an attempt to comprehend this popular term, find out who it’s for and who it’s from we came up with 8 alternative abstractions on how to understand and study it.”
More examples of services on their website.