Week two: Reality check/HWC (in collaboration with 48 nations and one goal)

Images from the Homeless World Cup in Cape Town 24 -30 September 2006, where I was a volunteer and guide for the Swedish team. The second of four interventions forming part of the ‘one work per week’ series.

Bolt bird

Canvas, hessian, wood, hinges
20 x 22 x 12 cm

Bolted onto one of the canvases distributed and used in the show ‘Untitled’ at What if the World Gallery in Cape Town 2006. One of few submissions that survived a paint-attack on the gallery’s storeroom immediately after the exhibition.

Squeak bird

Infra-red sensor, LED, motor, piezo, wood, BS2

Physical computing project

Peel

With Frank Latter
Stills from video with sound
2:13 min

Bonne santé

Laser cut mild steel, nuts, bolts, soil
ca 100 x 45 x 45 cm
Installation view

144 individual parts assembled like a mechano-set, with ’man-made nature’ and genetically modified crops in mind.










Detail of parts during assembly

Wheat tree

Routered and torched MDF, wood
420 x 120 x 7 cm
Installation view

A continuation on the subject of genetic engineering.

The Chancery

Documentation of site-specific work 2006-2007
(see 1 and 2)

The Chancery functioned as an embassy for Swedish artist Lars Vilk’s micro-nation Ladonia, and used role-play to explore notions of restriction and access.

Space monkeys

Cast bronze, glass, oil paint
Approximately 20 x 19 x 15 cm each

Domino

Stills from video with sound
1:03 min
Dimensions variable