A nail house is a Chinese neologism for homes belonging to people (sometimes called “stubborn nails”) who refuse to make room for real estate development. The term, a pun coined by developers, refers to nails that are stuck in wood, and cannot be pounded down with a hammer.
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Nail houses
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Posted in Composition
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Also tagged action, architecture, capitalism, China, chinese, developers, development, DIY, fuckem, hammer, installation, life, misplaced, nail house, nails, place, protest, public art, public space, real estate, remnant, sculpture, single, space, the wild, violence, wall, wood
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Mungo Thomson
Mungo Thomson, ‘Mail’ (2013)
The gallery’s mail is not collected for the duration of the exhibition.
By mh
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Posted in Composition
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Also tagged action, collection, DIY, expanding, found, fuckem, fun, grow, information, intervention, mail, mungo thomson, pile, text, the wild, time, trash, unknown, visible
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Unknown
By mh
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Posted in Composition
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Also tagged action, bank, fuckem, fun, letter, party, plan, retirement, text, unknown
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