Collision House is a 1981 work by artist and architect Vito Acconci which explicitly combines two of his main interests and activities. The departing … [Read more...]
Two Rooms Filled with Dirt: The New York Earth Room by Walter De Maria and the House in the Mud by Santiago Sierra
The New York Earth Room is an interior land-art installation by artist Walter de Maria. Since 1977, 197 cubic meters of earth fill a room on the … [Read more...]
An Archaeology of Urban Transformations: Lara Almarcegui’s Works
Lara Almarcegui is a Spanish artist who currently lives and works in Rotterdam. Her work deals with the transformation of cities, urban renewal, … [Read more...]
Music on a Long Thin Wire by Alvin Lucier (1977)
Alvin Lucier (1931, -) is a major American composer. He pioneered areas of sound art such as using brain waves in live performances, tracking … [Read more...]
Corporate Uncanny: Paintings and Installations by Stephanie Wilson
Australian artist Stephanie Wilson produces paintings and coordinated installations about contemporary corporate spaces. Her images show alienating … [Read more...]
House As a Manifestation of the Self: Jean-Pierre Raynaud’s “Maison” (1969-1993)
White ceramic tiles with black joints were French sculptor Jean-Pierre Raynaud's signature for most of his artistic production. In 1969, the artist … [Read more...]
“Flatland” and “Counterweight Roommate”: Two Installations and Performances by Alex Schweder La and Ward Shelley
“Flatland" (2007) and "Counterweight Roommate" (2012) are two domestic installations by Alex Schweder La and Ward Shelley, inhabited by the artists … [Read more...]
Constructing a False Reality: Chris Engman’s Photographs
Chris Engman is a photographer who creates installations and then captures them through the camera from a single point. He's interested in the way the … [Read more...]
Endogen Depression, by Wolf Vostell (1975-1984)
Wolf Vostell (1932-1998) was a a German painter, installation artist, performer. He was the inventor, in 1954, of the word 'Dé-coll/age' (and of the … [Read more...]
Bernard Voïta’s Real Life Collages
Bernard Voïta's art practice is on the brink between sculpture and photography. The artist carefully produces his scenes arranging found objects and … [Read more...]
Inhabiting Memories: Dagmar Schmidt’s Grabungsstädte – a Tribute to the Plattenbauten (2003-2005)
"Plattenbauten" are buildings whose structure is assembled out of prefabricated concrete slabs. Widely used in East Germany since the 1960s for public … [Read more...]
120 Doors by Pezo Von Ellrichshausen (2003)
Following the previous post on the isometric environments created by Franka Hörnschemeyer, here we propose a relatively old installation by Chilean … [Read more...]
Space Replay, an Eerie Space Manipulating Device
Space replay is a project designed by Francesco Tacchini, Julinka Ebhardt and Will Yates-Johnson of the London's Royal College of Art. As the title … [Read more...]
Enter the Space Inside a Wall: Two Installations by The Chapuisat Brothers
The Chapuisat brothers are a Swiss duo of artists who produce constructions able to challenge the current habits in perceiving art … [Read more...]
Building the Uncanny: Gregor Schneider’s “Haus U R” and “21 Beach Cells”
Gregor Schneider is an artist with an obsession for the elaboration and the reconstruction of spaces, with the aim of questioning common … [Read more...]
Andrea Zittel’s Habitats for Interior Life
Since the early 1990s, the Californian artist Andrea Zittel works on her "Living Modules", minimal inhabitable structures which reduces all the … [Read more...]
Your Prison (The Routine of Daily Life) by Alexander Brodsky
Alexander Brodsky (1955) is a Russian architect and artist famous for his narrative works on the brink between different disciplines. His production … [Read more...]
