For their first collaboration, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov built an immense, spiraling multi-story canvas and wood structure lit from within like a Chinese lantern. Inside, the Kabakovs installed 65 projects that ranged from the sublime to the common-place, and included proposals for gaining self-awareness by becoming a beggar or an angel; for punishing household objects for our mistfortunes; for redistributing the world's energy supply with space-based transmitters; for "cloud management" through a system of pumps and pipes; and even for taking a vacation without ever leaving your bed. Through photographs and essays by the artists, this publication documents the development and realization of "The Palace of Projects."
Pages
440
Format
Paperback
Release
March 15, 2002
ISBN 13
9783933807434
Ilya/Emilia Kabakov: The Palace of Projects: 1995-1998
For their first collaboration, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov built an immense, spiraling multi-story canvas and wood structure lit from within like a Chinese lantern. Inside, the Kabakovs installed 65 projects that ranged from the sublime to the common-place, and included proposals for gaining self-awareness by becoming a beggar or an angel; for punishing household objects for our mistfortunes; for redistributing the world's energy supply with space-based transmitters; for "cloud management" through a system of pumps and pipes; and even for taking a vacation without ever leaving your bed. Through photographs and essays by the artists, this publication documents the development and realization of "The Palace of Projects."