May 31, 2011
a year later: not all finales are grand about a month ago i received an email: Unlike unrealized architectural projects, which are frequently exhibited and circulated, unrealized artworks tend to remain unnoticed or little known. But perhaps there is another form of artistic agency in the partial expression, the incomplete idea, the projection of a mere intention? Agency of Unrealized Projects (AUP) seeks to document and display these works, in this way charting the terrain of a contingent future. Though the state of being unrealized implies the potential for realization, not all projects are intended to be carried out. In other instances, artists deliberately leave works incomplete, to record very interesting “failures” or experiments. Other planned projects involve consciously utopian, non-utilitarian, and conceptual spaces that were not made available for realization. Whether censored, forgotten, postponed, impossible, or rejected, unrealized projects form a unique testament to the speculative power of non-action. You are invited to contribute your own unrealized projects to AUP’s growing archive. Contributions can include text (DOC) and image files (two JPEGs or PDFs up to 2MB each), and can be submitted online at www.e-flux.com/aup. Please include one paragraph describing your project. Submission deadline: May 25, 2011 The Agency of Unrealized Projects (AUP) will be opening a temporary office in Basel this June, comprising of an archive of unrealized art projects. This will present projects collected through this open call and those collated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Guy Tortosa following several years of international research conducted in the late 90s. AUP follows the exhibition of the book project Unbuilt Roads: 107 Unrealized Projects, presented as a public archive at e-flux in 2009.AUP is a project of e-flux in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery devised by Julieta Aranda, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia Peyton-Jones and Anton Vidokle. Agency of Unrealized Projects (AUP) identity is designed by Liam Gillick. and thought…well,at least this: image 1: wide installation view, 2nd image down image2: composite text: a flower every day a flower every day was a multi-media response to Marina Abramovic’s Museum of Modern Art retrospective and performance piece: The Artist Is Present (March 14-May 31 2010).  It remains an unfinished project i often respond to the work of others,
 not with analysis 
but with work of my own
I call this process ArtDialogue eight years ago, in response to another Abramovic performance i made a watercolor project: Inspired by The House With the Ocean View a flower every day was my response to The Artist Is Present.
and it was an outgrowth of the piece of my daily watercolor practice entitled life(s) lesson(s) the original premise was that each day, in honor marina’s “being present” i would add a drawing of a flower to one of two 40 x 60” watercolors 
and on the days that i visited the performance, i would draw, write and photograph. this documentation, along with other analysis
was compiled on the blog: a flower every day as the project progressed, I felt it needed a context outside of the abramovic performance and I saw its culmination as being a mixed media exhibition consisting of:
the 2 watercolors, 8-12 20 x 24” color photographs of the flowers drawn during the project, an installation of the flowers used during the project, access to the blog: a flower every day. this installation has yet to be realized

a year later: not all finales are grand

about a month ago i received an email:

Unlike unrealized architectural projects, which are frequently exhibited and circulated, unrealized artworks tend to remain unnoticed or little known. But perhaps there is another form of artistic agency in the partial expression, the incomplete idea, the projection of a mere intention? Agency of Unrealized Projects (AUP) seeks to document and display these works, in this way charting the terrain of a contingent future.

Though the state of being unrealized implies the potential for realization, not all projects are intended to be carried out. In other instances, artists deliberately leave works incomplete, to record very interesting “failures” or experiments. Other planned projects involve consciously utopian, non-utilitarian, and conceptual spaces that were not made available for realization. Whether censored, forgotten, postponed, impossible, or rejected, unrealized projects form a unique testament to the speculative power of non-action.

You are invited to contribute your own unrealized projects to AUP’s growing archive. Contributions can include text (DOC) and image files (two JPEGs or PDFs up to 2MB each), and can be submitted online at www.e-flux.com/aup. Please include one paragraph describing your project.

Submission deadline: May 25, 2011

The Agency of Unrealized Projects (AUP) will be opening a temporary office in Basel this June, comprising of an archive of unrealized art projects. This will present projects collected through this open call and those collated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Guy Tortosa following several years of international research conducted in the late 90s. AUP follows the exhibition of the book project Unbuilt Roads: 107 Unrealized Projects, presented as a public archive at e-flux in 2009.

AUP is a project of e-flux in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery devised by Julieta Aranda, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia Peyton-Jones and Anton Vidokle.

Agency of Unrealized Projects (AUP) identity is designed by Liam Gillick.

and thought…
well,
at least this:

image 1: wide installation view, 2nd image down

image2: composite

text:

a flower every day

a flower every day was a multi-media response to Marina Abramovic’s Museum of Modern Art retrospective and performance piece: The Artist Is Present (March 14-May 31 2010).  It remains an unfinished project

i often respond to the work of others,

not with analysis 

but with work of my own

I call this process ArtDialogue

eight years ago,
in response to another Abramovic performance
i made a watercolor project:
Inspired by The House With the Ocean View

a flower every day was my response to The Artist Is Present.

and
it was an outgrowth of the piece of my daily watercolor practice entitled life(s) lesson(s)

the original premise was
that each day, in honor marina’s “being present”
i would add a drawing of a flower to one of two 40 x 60” watercolors 

and
on the days that i visited the performance,
i would draw, write and photograph.
this documentation, along with other analysis

was compiled on the blog: a flower every day

as the project progressed,
I felt it needed a context outside of the abramovic performance
and I saw its culmination as being a mixed media exhibition consisting of:

the 2 watercolors,
8-12 20 x 24” color photographs of the flowers drawn during the project,
an installation of the flowers used during the project,
access to the blog: a flower every day.

this installation has yet to be realized