Artwork Of The Day – 09 -
The Conveyor Belt Sidewalk
Location:
Must be placed so that it covers the whole sidewalk so that people can go into one direction really fast and to another very slow.
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Artwork Of The Day – 08
“Somebody is Playing Dangerous Games With Me“
Description:
- Metal basket full of large, rusty gas bottles.
- Timer is set to let fire bursts randomly out of each gas bottle so that there may be long periods of time between the bursts
Location:
- In the side of crowded walkway
- Shopping centre
- Other place with large amounts of people passing by
Artwork of the day – 07
“The Monument”
1. Working conveyor belt
2. Forest
(This AOTD was supposed to be published yesterday but I accidentally saved the post as a draft)
Artwork of the day _ 06
From the Unpractical party costumes – series
Part 2: Meat Suit
- A suit made from meat
- Reasons for unpracticality:
- Starts to smell
- Attracts animals, insects and freaks
- Looks nasty
- Feels nasty
Note: the costume must be without any other clothing
Artwork of the day _ 05
Smoking Granny
- Get yourself an cigarette smoking old lady
- Make her smoke cigarettes in several public places
Following places for example:
- Bus-stops
- Youth hostel fronts
- Swimming hall fronts
- Bar fronts
- Middle of the pathway
- Shopping centre smoking areas
- Record store fronts
- Library fronts
These will not do:
- Regular restaurants
- Sex shop fronts
Notes:
- The elderly lady must not look like an alcoholic
- The smoking must be intensive
- The smoke cloud around her must be thick
ARTWORK OF THE DAY _ 04
Exploding House
- Aquire an regular-sized house
- Load it up with TNT-dynamite (other explosives will do as well, f. ex. SCUD-missiles)
- Blow that house up
- Rebuild the house using the blown up debris
- Go to part 2
ARTWORK OF THE DAY _ 03
Unpractical party costumes – series
Part 1 : ” Tree-trunk though the chest” – costume
- Partygoer will wear tree trunk with suspenders so that it seems as it’s going thourgh his chest
- Reasons of unpracticality:
- Requires unnecessary amount of space
- You can’t really have face-to face conversations
- Suspenders will start to hurt your head and shoulders really soon
- Elevator-rides, public transport and restaurants / bars are out oy question while wearing this costume
ARTWORK OF THE DAY _ 02
(Not sure if this the second AOTD, but letäs start with this number)
Russian Roulette Escalator
- An escalator with one stair replaced with a gaping hole. You never know if that hole will be there when you step on the escalator!
- Very dangerous and possibly lethal
About downtime and some HORSEY HORSEY..
Published August 8, 2007 ARTWORK OF THE DAY , Information / Announcement Leave a CommentIn case someone is furious for the 1 and 1/2 weeks and no update whatsoever: sorry folks, I’ve just been terribly busy. I had some problems making new frames and that has eaten much of my time lately.
But hey, tonight I’ll update SHITLOAD of stuff, OK?
Heck it’s funny: I got a press release for this exhibition and it’s got to be the worst fucking exhibition overview I’ve read in a long time. I mean the release contained the following sentences (sorry for you folks who don’t know finnish) : “Ylva Holländerin näyttely on viiden maalauksen muodostama tilallinen teoskokonaisuus. Maalaukset esittävät hevosia. Kaksisuuntaisiksi rakennetut maalaukset esittävät hevosia [...] Ylva Holländerin taiteessa tärkeää on tilan ja teosten vuoropuhelu: tilataide ja taiteen tila. [...] Tärkeää on myös taidehistoriallisuus, uuden ja perinteisen rajanveto. “
It’s damn hilarious. Ylva must be really fucking proud of that press relese that makes him look like complete retard. I mean his (or is it her, don’t really know about the name “Ylva”) paintings are decently made spite the stupid mixing of paintings and “soundtrack” which tries to take us back to 18th century art salongs I guess. Of course my earnest opininon of the subject is that these paintings are just bland illustrations whose target audience is 50+ women with too much money and taste from hell. I really can’t find a big difference between these and those unicorn-painting motherfuckers you find from the web everywhere. I mean at least those guys are pretty honest with their shit and not trying to mix it with some mumbojumbo about ”contemporary meets traditional”, ”spatial dialogue” and ”art historic commentary”. And this guy/girl is calling his combinations of horse pictures and sound “installations”. For Ylva’s sake, I really hope someone just completely made up that whole text.
In a college I made a similar picture about a horse when trying a impress a Pretty Girl. Not so well paint perhaps, but the idea was same. I remember it was frustrating as hell to paint that horse and I’m pretty sure you got to be either 1) “a slow person” or 2) horse fanatic (or more likely “lunatic”) to get motivated to paint huge side portraits of horses. But hell, old ladies are going to go apeshit over those fucking things so why not bother? In a fact, I’m going to get into a horse business too! If you wanna get paid, you have flow in the right market, they say. But I’m not going to copy Ylva Höllander and his/her side portraits with a soundtrack. This is far better and the title is: ”Butterfly kisses from my horse, Whimsy, who is my only true friend in this cold and cruel world.” Look at that blooming relationship between man and the nature! 
And by the way, the picture is for sale for 500€ (black marker on acid-free copy paper)
Sincerely yours, AVR
I went to my studio and managed to arrange some of my stuff. There was plenty. I was supposed to sketch some ideas but I ran out of time. Well, tomorrow there’s a new day.
I had this idea that to this blog I’d create one artwork a day (from really simle stuff to complicated) and while coming home in a train I made first artwork-of-the-day. I’ll upload it here soon.
Anyway, it was sort of dark day, I felt detached and grumpy and like killing some screaming kids in a metro. But on the other hand I had seriously decent ideas. Concerning paintings and conrete blocks and surveillance systems.
