Projects
Hans Kalliwoda, WiaS (The World in a Shell)
WiaS (The World in a Shell) - WHILE THE GODS ARE ABSENT. A cross-cultural educational media project with the San (Bushmen) on location in the Kalahari Desert. The World in a Shell (polliniferous project) is used as a vehicle for intercultural exchange and intellectual cross-pollination underpinned by social and ethical concerns. WiaS explores ways in which technology might assist the adoption of an autarkic and nomadic life-style – something potentially desirable for the twenty first century world...
read moreAndy Weir, Extended Deep Time Contagion
Extended Deep Time Contagion, 2012-13 Yucca Mountain Repository, Nevada; HADES, Mol, Belgium; Gorleben, Germany; Forsmark, Sweden 1. This site documents and activates an ongoing series of audio field recordings made in deep geological repository sites (for the storage of nuclear waste) deeptimecontagion.tumblr.com Open it to transform your receiving device into a virulent surface for the transmission of sound from indefinitely sealed-off spaces, designed to outlast the human. In fact it is already open, inaudible to your ears perhaps, it has...
read moreHaseeb Ahmed & Daniel G. Baird, Has the World Already Been Made?
Under the cover of darkness or masquerading as architectural conservators, artists Daniel G. Baird and Haseeb Ahmed collect fragments of architectural, ornamental and natural formations from around the world. They make molds on-site directly from their chosen objects. These disparate fragments are then reconciled to construct a single ‘universalized space’. For Baird and Ahmed, these installations become ‘reverse site-specific’. The molds bear a 1:1 relationship with their place of origin. This indexical relationship is comparable to...
read moreMarta Jecu, How To Steal A Million
At its core, this project is based on William Wyler’s 1966 film “How to Steal a Million”, in which an art theft is staged inside a Paris museum. The plot reflected a new spirit and a performative, rebellious dynamic in treatment of the Masters – both institutionally and artistically. From a museum stuffed with fakes, a thief successfully steals his own forgery, and consequently reveals the hollow prestige of the museum’s revered masterpieces: a “Classical” Benvenuto Cellini is substituted for a bottle of brandy, and the...
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