To commemorate the former Yugoslav
Internet domain, .yu, which was set to
expire last September but has since been extended
until March 2010, I made a sculpture
using an inkjet printer and 10,000
sheets of paper. The sculpture, resembling
the one printed here, featured colored
plumes of smoke fuming from the flares of
football fans and hooligans.

Judging from the spate of violence that
shortly followed, the choice of imagery
proved sadly prophetic: French fan Brice
Taton was severely beaten by a group of
Grobari (undertakers) on 17 September
2009 and died twelve days later; Vedran
Pulijć, a fan of the football club Sarajevo,
was shot dead in hooligan riots before the
match on 4 October 2009 in Široki Brijeg,
Bosnia and Herzegovina; and another five
Sarajevo fans were injured by gunfire.

In this version of the sculpture—which
is black and white, the colors of Grobari—
the flares used by the extremist football fans
are suggestive of the recent tragic events.
The images, found on the Web and isolated
using Photoshop, were chosen as emblems
of the continuing violence of a former country,
which has lost the last official form of its
identity, the virtual one.
—Aleksandra Domanović
Instructions:
1. Download Grobari [PDF, 180mb],
A4 and US letter versions available
2. Set inkjet printer to borderless setting
3. Print, stack, and send a photograph of
finished work

Private Circulation › Grobari, by Aleksandra Domanovic.

Christian Gonzenbach.

Jen Stark

* nice and colorful paper cut sculputures

Christophe Lemaitre — Sans titre

via R-Echos referers

pan-dan: Jordi Ferreiro

The House and the Backdoor

The House and the Backdoor
Since Nina’s mother moved in with Nina’s father in 1972,
she has kept a box in the attic, of those of her books that
overlapped with his collection. The artists have built a
wooden container for the books, which is for sale on the
premise that the buyer will return its contents to Nina’s mother,
should she ever again have to make a home of her own.

Nina Beier – Marie Lund

exhibition in London (from sept 08): Two Women & All the best

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Brian Jungen Works: “

Brian Jungen Works“

(Via DatDatDat.)

Architecture_102: “Entry: Active Social Plastic
Focus: Conceptual Device


Active Social Plastic takes on cultural ephemera, turning its lens to architecture, urbanism, design, interaction, landscape, music and literature, among other leanings.
LINK
http://www.conceptualdevice.com/“

(Via PLX.box.)

Attila Csörgo: ”

Attila Csörgo

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(Via manystuff.org.)