Cildo Meireles, Insertions into Ideological Circuits (Coca Cola Project), 1970 The Coca-Cola Project… explore[s] the notion of circulation and exchange of goods, wealth and information as manifestations of the dominant ideology. For the Coca-Cola Project Meireles removed Coca-Cola bottles from normal circulation and modified them by adding critical political statements, or instructions for turning the bottle into a Molotov cocktail, before returning them to the circuit of exchange. On the bottles, such messages as ‘Yankees Go Home’ are followed by the work’s title and the artist’s statement of purpose: ‘To register informations and critical opinions on bottles and return them to circulation’.

Cildo Meireles, Insertions into Ideological Circuits (Coca Cola Project), 1970

The Coca-Cola Project… explore[s] the notion of circulation and exchange of goods, wealth and information as manifestations of the dominant ideology. For the Coca-Cola Project Meireles removed Coca-Cola bottles from normal circulation and modified them by adding critical political statements, or instructions for turning the bottle into a Molotov cocktail, before returning them to the circuit of exchange. On the bottles, such messages as ‘Yankees Go Home’ are followed by the work’s title and the artist’s statement of purpose: ‘To register informations and critical opinions on bottles and return them to circulation’.

Lilly McElroy, The Square – After Roberto Lopardo  McElroy drew a square on Michigan Ave. in Chicago and protected it from intruders.

Lilly McElroy, The Square – After Roberto Lopardo 

McElroy drew a square on Michigan Ave. in Chicago and protected it from intruders.

two stage transfer drawing, 1971, dennis oppenheim

two stage transfer drawing, 1971, dennis oppenheim

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L’Origine du monde I like the way the mind works. Whoever took this picture saw a set of winding stairs and thought “From a certain angle, this is reminiscent of that painting by Courbet.”   - More

L’Origine du monde

I like the way the mind works. Whoever took this picture saw a set of winding stairs and thought “From a certain angle, this is reminiscent of that painting by Courbet.”  

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Sasha Kurmaz, Nude Girl Drinking Milk Sasha Kurmaz

Sasha Kurmaz, Nude Girl Drinking Milk Sasha Kurmaz

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Cerith Wyn Evans, Untitled (Gold-plated barrier), 1998 Plated steel 122 x 259 cm (48.03 x 101.97 in). Yvon lambert Gallery. Ha. As though the barrier itself is what makes what is going on behind it special. Point of reference: Versailles Buckingham - Related, Kristof Kintera, Paradise Now (and more Kintera at justement)

Cerith Wyn Evans, Untitled (Gold-plated barrier), 1998 Plated steel 122 x 259 cm (48.03 x 101.97 in). Yvon lambert Gallery.

Ha. As though the barrier itself is what makes what is going on behind it special.

Point of reference:

Versailles

Buckingham

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Related, Kristof Kintera, Paradise Now

(and more Kintera at justement)

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Jurgen Olbrich, Autopoems

Jurgen Olbrich, Autopoems

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Micah Lexier Translation: Self portrait in the form of a wall proportionally laid out between the black of the letters, representing life lived thus far and the remaining white space, which represents life left to live, based upon statistical data for life expectancy.

Micah Lexier

Translation: Self portrait in the form of a wall proportionally laid out between the black of the letters, representing life lived thus far and the remaining white space, which represents life left to live, based upon statistical data for life expectancy.

Micah Lexier

Micah Lexier

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Max Zerrahn

Max Zerrahn

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Grupa TOK performance, Serbia ‘73 

Public performance art, using protest signs with minimal patterns.

More photos here

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Helmut Smits, Real Life Photoshopping #1 Spray paint on leaves #2 Pavement swept with broom #3 Materials: plank, spade bit, plug cutter, wood plugs cut from the original plank - More Helmut Smits at justement

Helmut Smits, Real Life Photoshopping

#1 Spray paint on leaves

#2 Pavement swept with broom

#3 Materials: plank, spade bit, plug cutter, wood plugs cut from the original plank

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Sofia Goscinski

Sofia Goscinski

Shizuka Yokomizo, Dear Stranger

For this 1998-2000 series of portraits, photographer Shizuka Yokomizo left several anonymous letters on the doorsteps of random ground floor apartments that read:

“Dear Stranger,

I am an artist working on a photographic project which involves people I do not know…. I would like to take a photograph of you standing in your front room from the street in the evening.”

The letter specified a certain ten-minute period during which the artist would approach, take the picture, and slip back into the darkness. She would only reveal her identity once her subjects received a print and contact information (so that they could let her know if they objected to their portrait being exhibited).

Yokomizo made sure that when the photos were taken, the light would be too dark outside to see her — it would only allow her subjects to see their own reflections on their side of the window.

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