PLAY – an installation by Swiss artist Urs Fisher at Gagosian Gallery in New York: nine autonomous office chairs pre-programmed with choreography devised by artist Madeline Hollander swirl, swivel and interact with one another, sensing and avoiding visitors, who are free to walk among the herd.
When the chairs run low on power, they dock automatically with a machine inside the gallery which replaces the battery and processor housed inside each seat.
Tom writes:
Picture taken in Waterford hospital recently, never mind the new lab Mr Halligan. Check out how long these poor chairs have been waiting for repair.
Previously: ‘They’ve Been Dishonourable With Me’
What looks like a clone-tool heavy CG rendering but is, in fact, an actual sculpture by Baptiste Debombourg entitled Stellar at Place du Bouffay in Nantes.
A static ‘rollercoaster’ made from 1200 brightly coloured café chairs created for this month’s La Voyage Á Nantes.
Garden Tower in Toronto – The nighttime version of an installation by Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata at Toronto’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche (which ended yesterday), consisting of hundreds of chairs and benches stacked up into a hollow tower, lit from within.
(Pix: Alex Tsang)
Stacks of things were high on the agenda this year.
Órla Ó Ruairc writes:
I came across this sign at the back entrance to a hotel in Crete [Greece] during a stroll last week. Decided to check out the pool.
Are you sitting comfortably?
Alex F writes:
Outside the new Bord Gais offices at 1 Warrington Place. Workers unbox hundreds of new Herman Miller Aeron chairs (list price: $970 – $1250) and wheel them into the lobby.
Just weeks after the announcement by Bord Gais that it plans to raise energy prices by 20 per cent.
The pile of boxes in the first pic are *all* empty Aeron boxes. The second pic is of the lobby, with about €100,000 of chairs waiting to be taken upstairs. Taken literally 70 mins ago.
