Katrin Sigurdardottir - Unbuilt Residences is Reykjavik 1925-1930 - 2005 - custom-made gypsum board, gypsum, tape, wood

An ongoing project where drafts of 8 unbuilt homes in Reykjavik for the period 1925-1930 are used to create sculptures that then are by various means destoyed on the streets of Brooklyn The first of these sculptures (in the pictures), was thrown off the roof of the artists studio building and crashed on the pavement below, then cleaned up and remains are kept in a garbage bag, awaitng
further procedures. Simultaneously, this project is presented in a weblog at http://rhizome.org/art/exhibition/ city.

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