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simianAmber
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An art form called Descriptive Art, made to exist only in the mind of the reader, the piece is completed in the readers imagination. All work © simianAmber
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2017-08-31 10:10
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Joy
Record a kids playground when it’s busiest. Play the recording in a gallery room, with loads of lifesize bronzes, of girls and boys, pulling wheelies on BMX bikes.
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Greener grass
Carve a crowd of people in Carrara marble. Some will be couples, some single. Stand the statues on the ground floor of a gallery, randomly spaced throughout the rooms. Have every statue watching live streaming
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School run 2
Buy 30 Porsche Cayennes’, park them outside a gallery. In each car will be a cast bronze driver, staring ahead, hands on the wheel. Sat behind the driver, in the back seat, will be a cast bronze child
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School run 1
Buy about 25 high end SUV’s, a mix of Porsche Cayenne, Audi Q7, BMW X5, Range Rover, Lexus…… Park them in a gallery, as if they were passing each other on the road, so 11 heading one way, 14 the other,
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Half empty
Dig a really big hole in the floor of the Serpentine Gallery. Use the spoil to block every doorway and window into it.
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Explanted
Borrow a stone sarcophagus from the British Museum, fill it with ashes and used pacemakers. Above it, suspend a large electro-magnet, switching on/off around 60 bpm. When the magnet switches on, the pacemakers
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It’s cold outside
I’m riffing on the Cerne Abbas Giant here… Find a grassy hillside. Instead of cutting away the grass to create a line drawing, bury heated cable under the grass, so that whatever you’ve drawn only shows
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I don’t want to know what I don’t want to know
Install the Eileen Gray armchair 'Fauteuil aux dragons' in a gallery room. Opposite, build the worlds finest home entertainment system.
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Behave
A sound installation - the word ‘no’ repeated in a space, in every language there is, randomly, forever.
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Victim
Hang 6 neon signs in a gallery room, any combination of colours – they should flash sequentially. I want to be a You are not a Stop being a I need a I am a You are a
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Bestseller
Publish a book with the phrase ‘give peace a chance’ printed one to a page in every language ever known.
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Give peace a chance
To be performed simultaneously - Gather together in front of the UN building one person from every language in the world. Have them repeat the phrase ‘give peace a chance’ over and over in their own language
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Readymade
Empty Tate Britain of all art currently on display. Visitors have to bring something of their own to exhibit instead.
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Union Carbide
Reconstruct a death camp gas chamber in a gallery room, surround it with bottled water, mark the bottles with the skull and crossbones.
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IRL
Make clay copies of iPads, give them away outside Apple stores.
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Overdose
Pin 1,000,000 dead bees to the walls of a gallery room.
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Let’s talk
Place two chairs on a traffic island, facing each other.
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Just 17
Build a classroom inside a gallery, sit a bunch of wise old people in it. Have them say out loud, one after the other, “stop pissing about and get on with it, this isn’t a fucking dress rehearsal.” They
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Clean burn
We aren’t allowed to build clean burn coal fired power stations, even though it’s the one energy resource we have in abundance in the UK. We’ve closed all the mines anyway, as it’s cheaper from somewhere
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King Coal
Dump 1000 tonnes of unrefined raw coal in a gallery.
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