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Tentamen was a group exhibition in a Georgian House at 13 North Great George's Street. Below are some images of my work and a video walkthrough of the show.
The exhibition also featured the work of Lucy Andrews, Alan Butler, Joseph Coveney, Aoibheann Greenan, David Eager Maher and John O’Connell.
Untitled #151, Douglas Fir, 800cm x 800cm x 800cm, 2010
Andreas Wilder makes large sculptures by stacking lengths of timber. Many of these are temporary and as the projects end they are knocked down like dominoes.
More about Aeneas Wilder's work
The chromatophores in a squid stimulated by Cypress Hill's Insane in the Membrane.
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"He (David Nash) first carved a rough sphere... and intended to take this back to his studio. However, access was up a long steep track and at 400 kg and a metre wide, this 'boulder' was dangerous to move downhill. So instead Nash used a nearby stream, where rocky banks would contain the momentum of its descent.
However, a little way down the bank, the boulder became wedged in a waterfall. Nash had no option but to leave it there. It looked good in the streaming water, and so Nash began photographing it... the journey of Wooden Boulder had begun.
The following March heavy rainfall shifted Wooden Boulder into the pool below. Still with the intention of moving it to his studio, Nash hauled it out of the stream and rolled it down the next waterfall to the pool below, where it remained for eight years. It became obvious that the Wooden Boulder belonged to the stream; over the next 24 years it moved nine times during storms, eventually floating into the River Dwyryd estuary. Nash says of Wooden Boulder, 'It is important to the narrative of this "free-range"; sculpture that its material formed and grew on the hill over two centuries. I did not take the wood up the hill. The narrative, like the material, grew organically.'
Text quoted from the Kew Gardens website
Here is a video of Nash talking about Wooden Boulder and another work
Loitering Theatre is a project by Nina McGowan and Caroline Campbell which "uses customised helicopters (the AR.Drone) to fly beyond the normal street view to access and film previously inaccessible and unseen views of the city". It was shown at the Science Gallery, Dublin as a part of Hack the City. Above is a clip from a longer video.
Nina and Caroline collaborate together also using the name Loitering Theatre.
Artist Jeremy LeClair, of Various Artists Records, had these beautiful glass resonating phonograph horns made for him by glass artist Joe Forestall and now he can acoustically play to two different parts of a record at the same time!
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As featured on boingboing
I have, here, undertaken a series of vignettes built around nine elements which, taken together, are my portrayal of a big city...any city.
Seen from afar, major cities are an accumulation of big buildings, big population and big acreage. For me it is not 'real.' The big city as it is seen by its inhabitants is the real thing. The true picture is in the crevices on its floors and around the smaller pieces of its architecture where daily life swirls.
Will Eisner, from the introduction to New York: The Big City
Eisner's Comic New York: Life in the Big City (of which New York: The Big City is sub-section) contains many short episodic comics, often with little if any dialogue, depicting people engaged in small interactions with architectural elements of the city; fire hydrants, lamp posts, bins etc. It reminded me of Francis Alys' work using similar elements in urban public space. Below is a page from Eisner's comic and a video by Alys.
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A retrospective of Boetti's work will be held at Tate Modern in early 2012.
I posted a video of this sculpture at a n earlier stage in its production here . Today boingboing have featured this slicker video of the (almost) finished thing.
They ask her "Are you a crazy animal killer ?"
