Heaven Is A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens
Nathan Coley Originally commissioned for the 2008 Folkstone Triennial, Nathan Coley’s large scaffolding and fun fair sign ‘Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens’ is situated in the ACCA forecourt, Sturt Street Melbourne, until December 2010. Presented by Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival A project by ACCA in […]
Posted on 18 October 2010 by Satellite | No Comments.Tags: installation, Nathan Coley, public sculpture
SCAPE 2010
SCAPE, New Zealand’s premier biennial of art in public space, to be held in Christchurch from 24 September to 7 November 2010, has in the last 10 years established a platform for local, national and international artists to develop dynamic, critical and progressive new permanent and temporary public artworks. Seven new large-scale temporary public artworks will join […]
Posted on 13 July 2010 by Satellite | No Comments.Tags: cultural program, discursive, installation
Fiona Banner, Tornado
Tornado by Fiona Banner is a new co-commission by Locus+ and Great North Run Culture. Fiona Banner’s proposal involves the physical and conceptual transformation of a recently decommissioned RAF Tornado jet fighter cast as a large, single bell, utilizing the metal from the fuselage. Initially, the bell, will be situated in a busy public space to coincide with the […]
Posted on 13 July 2010 by Satellite | No Comments.Tags: installation
Emanuel Danesch and David Rych
In collaboration with AIDS 2010, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary presents Minority Logbox: multiple degrees of representation / Fever in the Trailer by Emanuel Danesch and David Rych, a self-service mobile screening room for a film and video archive installed on Josef-Meinrad-Platz between the Burgtheater and the Volksgarten. > > DURATION: July 17 — July 20, 2010 LOCATION: Josef-Meinrad-Platz / between […]
Posted on 13 July 2010 by Satellite | 1 Comment.Tags: installation
The Morning Line — Istanbul 2010
Matthew Ritchie, Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary has been invited to contribute to Istanbul’s contemporary art program as European Capital of Culture 2010 with The Morning Line. A platform for contemporary music and composition, The Morning Line is a public art structure – 8 meter high and 20 meter long, built of 17 tons of coated aluminum […]
Posted on 13 July 2010 by Satellite | No Comments.Tags: installation
Artangel: The Concise Dictionary of Dress online
The Concise Dictionary of Dress online Judith Clark & Adam Phillips’ extraordinary project at Blythe House has now closed, but The Concise Dictionary of Dress lives on through new, specially commissioned multimedia content on the Artangel website, and a beautiful book published by Robert Violette. Our online area for The Concise Dictionary of Dress includes: Conformist: […]
Posted on 13 July 2010 by Satellite | No Comments.Tags: discursive, installation
Gertrude Street Projection Festival 2010
The third annual Gertrude St Projection Festival opens 7:00pm Friday, 9 July for 10 nights of free outdoor projected art on Gertrude Street Fitzroy (Melbourne, Australia). Nightly from 6:00pm — 12:00am until Sunday, 18 July. via The Gertrude Association.
Posted on 9 July 2010 by Satellite | No Comments.Tags: cultural program, installation
SUPERFLEX — Power Toilets
SUPERFLEX have created public toilets at the Park van Luna (Heerhugowaard, Netherlands) based on phởtos taken secretly by an ex-UN staffer, identical in every detail to that of the sanitary facilities at one of the most secure buildings in the world, the United Nations in New York. Bathers and canoeists at the park are free […]
Posted on 9 July 2010 by Satellite | No Comments.Tags: installation
Yinka Shonibare — Fourth Plinth commission
New commission for the Fourth Plinth, Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle, by leading Anglo-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare unveiled on the morning of Monday 24 May 2010, Trafalgar Square, London. Commissioned by the Mayor of London and supported by Arts Council England with sponsorship from Guaranty Trust Bank of Nigeria, Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle is a scale replica […]
Posted on 9 July 2010 by Satellite | No Comments.Tags: installation
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer — Solar Equation
“Solar Equation” is a large-scale public art installation that consists of a faithful simulation of the Sun, 100 million times smaller than the real thing. Commissioned by the Light in Winter Festival in Melbourne, the piece features the world’s largest spherical balloon, custom-manufactured for the project, which is tethered over Federation Square and animated using five projectors. […]
Posted on 24 June 2010 by Satellite | No Comments.Tags: installation
