Mary Miss, ‘Awning’ (1966)
Tag Archives: public space
Helmut Smits
Helmut Smits, ‘1847 meter, the distance from my house to my studio’ (2010)
extension lead 10 m
extension cord red 25 m
extension cord yellow 20 m
extension cord green 12 m
extension cord white 3 m
extension cord IKEA KOPPLA 5 m
installation wire black 100 m
rope brown 100 m
rope white 20 m
rope off white 20 m
rope IKEA blue10 m
rope black/blue/white 20 m
sisal rope 45 m
polypropylene rope yellow 45 m
polypropylene rope blue 45 m
polypropylene rope brown 45 m
flexible tube 5 m
nail band 10 m
tape measure 3 m
tape measure 30 m
iron wire 1,5mm green 25 m
iron wire 50 m
iron wire green Gamma 50 m
iron wire green Skandia 50 m
clothesline 20 m
tensioning strap orange 5 m
tensioning strap blue 4 m
stretching foil 150 m
coaxial cable 5 m
yarn 65 m
sandpaper roll kwb 5 m
sandpaper roll 5 m
electrical wire black 5 m
electrical wire white 5 m
electrical wire brown 5 m
electrical wire with switch 2 m
elastic band 10 m
thread 100 m
masons line 40 m
phone cord 2 m
iron cord 3 m
melamine edge 2,5 m
nylon thread 25 m
bandage 4 m
plaster tape 5 m
duct tape 50 m
insulating tape black 4,5 m
insulating tape brown 4,5 m
insulating tape yellow/green 4,5 m
insulating tape blue 4,5 m
insulating tape green 25 m
masking tape Elma 25 m
masking tape Tesa 50 m
12mm masking tape 50 m
masking tape purple 25 m
double sided foam tape 1,5 m
double sided carpet tape 5 m
sealing tape 5 m
aluminum tape 5 m
packing tape Scotch 66 m
packing tape Tesa 66 m
packing tape fragile 66 m
packing tape transparant Scotch 66 m
packing tape transparant Zeeman 25 m
adhesive tape 33 m
adhesive tape crystal 33 m
teflon tape 12 m
Mary Miss
Mary Miss, several impressions of the exhibition ‘Perimeters / Pavillions / Decoys’ (1978)
Short PDF on the work here.
Kamikaze Loggia
Photograph by Levan Asabashvili.
Photograph by Krzysztof Weglel.
Some examples of informal structures called “kamikaze loggias”, the vernacular extensions of modernist buildings characteristic of Tbilisi. These extensions have been created since the 1990s as an organic response to the new, “lawless” times after the fall of the Soviet Union. They increase the living space and are usually used as terraces, extra rooms, open refrigerators, etc.
It is said that a Russian journalist named them “kamikaze”, drawing a parallel between the romantic and suicidal character of such an endeavour and the typical ending of most Georgian family names “-adze”. This architecture also refers back to the local palimpsestic building technique, which since the Middle Ages has allowed new houses to be built on top of existing ones on the steep slopes of the Caucasus Mountains thus not monumentalising the past but expanding on it for the future.
Read more about the Georgian Pavillion at the 2013 Venice Architecture Biennale here.
Maider López
Maider López, ‘Football Field 1’, Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates (2007)
As part of the Sharjah Biennial, artist Maider López painted the lines of a soccer field red in a public square of Sharjah, adding goals on either end. Because pre-existing features such as benches and streetlamps were not altered, the square became a strange new site for football matches where spectators relaxed on benches inside the pitch at all hours.
