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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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Sale ends soon
Fit typical shopfronts, complete with signage and stand-offs, to every wall of a large gallery room. Every one will have it’s shutters closed. In the middle of this will be a huge pile of stinking black
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Hydro
Cut a 300mm hole in the ceiling and floor of a gallery room, directly in line with each other, about 1m out from a corner. Have a solid column of raging water pouring through the holes. Amplify the sound
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Gift
Wrap Buckingham Palace in gold foil paper, tie it up with red, white and blue ribbons. Give it to the homeless.
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Make a house a home
Place a large cardboard box in the corner of a gallery room. On the floor next to it will be an envelope addressed to ‘The Occupier’.
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Monument with no name
Build two parallel walls, about 1.8m apart, 3m high, 20km long. Cover the floor of this ‘corridor’ with rubble and debris collected from urban war zones. On one of the walls, at 10km, will be a sign telling
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Conversation
Place 2 digital cameras on tripods, facing each other, repeatedly shooting in an alternate sequence. Have each camera post directly to Twitter in real time.
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Commodity
Place 100 low plinths, each around 1m square, 10 x 10 in a gallery room. On each plinth place a man, a woman or a child.
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Black mountain
Pile up a billion toy cars, somewhere remote. It’ll become a tourist attraction, people will drive to see it.
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Jolly
Stand a few dozen Christmas trees in a gallery. Zhoosh it up a bit with some fake snow and mince pies, festive songs on the pa… Have a group of children posting £20 notes into a shredder. Have the kids
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Fortune seller
Put ten of the worlds ‘leading’ economists in a gallery room, each one sat at a table signing copies of their latest book.
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Exhausted
Make a friend stay awake for at least three days. Offer them a bed in the middle of a gallery room. Surround the bed with dozens of empty energy drink cans. The piece ends when they wake up.
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Northern light
Run a 25mm bundle of fibreoptics from the North Pole to somewhere hot.
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Resource
‘Video wall’ an entire gallery room, and show a 360° live feed from a drought stricken farm. Cover the floor to a depth of around 200mm in soil from the same farm. Using hidden speakers, play the sound
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This is not a zoo
Open a museum where every exhibit is extinct.
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Terms of endearment
Supermarket slogans signwritten across gallery walls, using the correct colours and fonts. ‘Because we care’ ‘Every little helps’ ‘Make a house a home’ ‘Live well for less’ ‘Saving you money every day’
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Gated
A performance piece. Hire the ExCel exhibition centre in London, advertise a free one day event called ‘THE HOME SECURITY SHOW’ or some such crap. Have door personnel turn everyone away.
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Leap
Burn a bridge.
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Give me one good reason
Build a bridge.
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North south
Find a gallery room, anywhere you like. Cover half the floor with steaming bowls of rice.
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Not my problem
Use a 3D printer to create blocks of tightly woven text, in black plastic. Print dozens of 300mm3 cubes using the words ‘not my problem’. Fill every WC in a gallery with them, floor to ceiling, front to
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