INSTALLATION ART

Marcel Duchamp

Edward Kienholz

Bruce Nauman

Mowry Baden

Judy Chicago

Judy Pfaff

Ilya Kabakov

To accompany The Man Who Flew Into Space From His Apartment (from the series "Ten Characters") Kabakov wrote:

The lonely inhabitant of the room as becomes clear from the story his neighbor tells, was obsessed by a dream of a lonel flight into space, and in all probability he realized this dream of his, his "grand project. " The entire cosmos, according to the thoughts of the inhabitant of this room, was permeated by streams of energy leading upward somewhere. His project was conceived in an effort to hook up with these streams and fly away with them. A catapult, hungfrom the corners of the room, would give this new "astronaut," who was sealed in a plastic sack, his initial velocity and further up, at a height of 40-50 meters, he would land in a stream of energy through which the Earth was passing at that moment as it moved along its orbit. The astronaut had to pass through the ceiling and attic of the house with his vault. With this in mind, he installed powder charges and at the moment of his take off from the catapult, the ceiling and roof would be wiped out by an explosion, and he would be carried away into the wide-open space. Everything was in place late at night, when all the other inhabitants of the communal apartment are sound asleep. One can imagine their horror, fright, and bewilderment. The local police are summoned, an investigation begins, and the tenants search everywhereÑin the yard, on the streetÑbut he is nowhere to be found. ln all probability, the project, the general nature of which was known by the neighbor who told the investigator about it, was successfillly realized.

Jonathan Borofsky

Chris Burden

Vito Acconci

Kara Walker

Anish Kapoor

Ann Hamilton

GICK

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