Name: Alison Knowles (b. 1933)
Brand: The House of Dust
Price: 100.00 EUR
Availability: SoldOut

Alison Knowles (b. 1933)
The House of Dust
clay and wood
3 x 5 x 4m.

Christie’s is delighted to present a unique opportunity: the chance to spend one night in a sculpture.

STAYING OVERNIGHT DURING THE WORLD PREMIERE - ALISON KNOWLES
Knowles – a Pratt Institute honorary doctorate-winning multimedia artist and pioneer of the Fluxus movement – focuses on the relationship between man and machine. She translates language and wordplay into installations and performances, creating a visual poetry that delights with power and humour.

Inhabit and marvel at a phenomenal work of art, and become part of a premiere: the architectural sculpture is realised in 3D printing and is the first of its kind in the world.

This lot is limited to 2 people
Located at the Kranzplatz am Kochbrunnen in Wiesbaden
Valid on 10 July 2021 from 7.00PM – 11 July 2021 10.00AM
Travel to the site and meals are not included

Please note that the actual sculpture is not part of the purchase and that the artist will retain full ownership of the sculpture.

This lot is offered without reserve.
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Christie’s is delighted to present a unique opportunity: the chance to spend a night experience in a sculpture. Eight international artists have created habitable works for tinyBE – a global platform devoted to artistic ideas about sustainable living – and proceeds from the sale will benefit the organisation’s activities. The works will be displayed as part of tinyBE’s first project: A three month event – part exhibition, part sculpture park – which will take place between June and September 2021 in Frankfurt, Darmstadt and Wiesbaden in Germany. Successful bidders will be able to occupy their chosen sculpture for the first night of the event: Thereafter, the experience will be open to the public. Conceived as a collective Gesamtkunstwerk, the project aims to spark debate about the relationship between art, architecture, society and the environment. At once utopian and disruptive, the sculptures ask their inhabitants to reconsider the ways in which we interact with the world at large.

Sustainable, partly portable and no more than 30 square metres in size, the works span a diverse range of practices. Contemporary German artists are strongly represented: from Thomas Schütte to Christian Jankowski to Berlin-based collective MY-CO-X, who have developed raw artistic materials from fungal biotechnology. French artist Laure Prouvost, winner of the 2013 Turner Prize, has created Boob Hills Burrows: two habitable breast-shaped mounds built into the landscape. American multidisciplinary duo Caleb Duarte and Mia Eve Rollow address themes of migration and displacement in THE EMBASSY OF THE REFUGEE, while Beijing-born Canadian artist Terence Koh invites viewers to sleep beneath the stars in his habitable biotope spiral home. Turkish artist Onur Gökmen explores the intersection of past and present in FIRST, while American Fluxus pioneer Alison Knowles looks to the future in her 3D-printed work made of clay The House of Dust: the first of its kind in the world.

Proceeds will benefit the organisation’s activities.
tinybe.org