The woodwallet is a comment to what we do with waste material and how we can make something pleasant with a material that was to be thrown away. Made from scrapwood, this wallet is made of european pine, with a leather strap and white pigmented oil. On the back it reads: This product is made from scrapwood. Handle with care. Manufactured and assembled in Sweden. Designed by Anders Ekström. Available at Flux Shop, Stockholm.

The Free Universal Construction Kit is a collection of nearly 80 adapter bricks that enable complete interoperability between ten popular children’s construction toys. By allowing any piece to mate with any other, the Kit encourages totally new forms of intercourse between otherwise closed systems – enabling radically hybrid Constructivist play and the creation of heretofore impossible designs. As with other grassroots interoperability remedies, the Free Universal Construction Kit implements proprietary protocols in order to provide a public service unmet, or unmeetable, by corporate interests.

Realia Series: American Tourister, 2012. Responsive installation. American Tourister suitcases, motion sensors, batteries, plastic, wood, electric motors, gears and other electromechanical components. Controlled by motion sensors, these suitcases begin to breath when approached by visitors.

Juan Ortiz-Apuy

Olafur Eliasson
Your rainbow panorama
2006-2011

ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson

Jimmie Durham, Smashing, 2005

Interview at Heyoka magazine

The RedBall Project : Artist Statement

Through the RedBall ProjectI (Kurt Perchke) utilize my opportunity as an artist to be a catalyst for new encounters within the everyday. Through the magnetic, playful, and charismatic nature of the RedBall the work is able to access the imagination embedded in all of us. On the surface, the experience seems to be about the ball itself as an object, but the true power of the project is what it can create for those who experience it. It opens a doorway to imagine what if? As RedBall travels around the world people approach me on the street with excited suggestions about where to put it in their city. In that moment the person is not a spectator but a participant in the act of imagination. I have witnessed it across continents, diverse age spans, cultures, and languages, always issuing an invitation. That invitation to engage, to collectively imagine, is the true essence of the RedBall Project. The larger arc of the project is how each city responds to that invitation and, over time, what the developing story reveals about our individual and cultural imagination.

Kurt Perschke

John Lock is an architect that live in New York. He works at RMA. The phonebooth library shown here is part of his ‘department of urban betterment‘ interventionist project. It’s the same concept as James Econs’s ‘phoneboox’ in the UK.

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Jim Kazanjian received his MFA from the Art Center College of Design in ’92. His BFA was completed at the Kansas City Art Institute in ’90. He has worked professionally as a commercial CGI artist for the past 18 years in television and game production.

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Bubi Canal is a Spanish visual artist living in New York City. Bubi teleports us to impossible worlds full of emotions and mysterious and intriguing characters. His work combines different types of media and artistic methods including photography, video and sculpture and deals with the recurring themes of human wishes, dreams, magic and love.

Jody Barton are writing these street posters with Luke Pommersheim. Explainer: Jens is a common Danish name and KL.14 means 2.00pm.

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