if these walls could draw | 2009
colored pencil on paper
sheet: 8.5"h x 11"w
re-frame or and your sleep number is... | 2009
bed frame, laser-printed text on paper & tape
78"h x 39"w
-found bed frame (Mainz, Germany) with the equaling quantity from dividing the bed frame-printed numbers 99 by 197
guide-rail grind rhein | 2009
transport barge & guard rail on the Rhein River in Mainz, Germany
duration: 14 sec.
marks the coming of spring | 2009
500 self-made flags
flag:10"h x 3"w; in a 10' diameter
achtungsvogelschornstein (attention/bird/smokestack) | 2009
white house paint on abandoned smokestack
bird: 24"h x 36"w
-an enlarged stencil of a bird window decal painted on an out-of-commission smokestack outside the art academy in Mainz, Germany
pulldowns | 2009
floral foam bricks
brick: 4"h x 6"w x 8"l
und/pun | 2009
found invitation cards
card: 6"h x 9"w
-left-over invitation cards collected from the hallways at die Akademie für Bildende Künste arranged to focus on one word represented in two different positions- und/pun. the German word for pun is woerterspiel- literally 'wordplay'- while an inverted 'pun' becomes the German und- 'and.'
waiting to scare 2000 people | 2009
2000 white paper lunch bags in 4 metal cabinets
bag: 6"h x 4.5"w
250 balloons blown up in a corner-- 2 different ways | 2009
500 balloons & string
dimensions variable
floor protectors | 2009
100 floor protectors in elevator
floor protector: 1.5"h x 1.25" dia
-inhabiting a transitional space, these floor protectors still assume their functional position, only now without their chair counterpart.
placed in an elevator, floor protection expands into a multi-spacial event.
dark matter | 2009
digital photographs altered in ms paint
digital: no dimensions
-digital images altered in microsoft paint of sperrmüll (bulky junk)- furniture, appliances, garbage and the like- discarded on the sidewalks of Mainz, Germany
digital photographs altered in ms paint
digital: no dimensions
-digital images altered in microsoft paint of sperrmüll (bulky junk)- furniture, appliances, garbage and the like- discarded on the sidewalks of Mainz, Germany
BRAD THIELE 2017