366 rapporten
by Wim Konings ; red. Ernest van der Kwast ; vw Dees Linders
- Author(s)
- Wim Konings
- Editor(s)
- Ernest van der Kwast
- Publication, year
- Rotterdam : Sichting CBK, 2015
- Scope
- 446 Pages, illustrated, 22 cm.
- ISBN
- 9789082299212
The work of Scandinavian artist duo Michael Elmgreen (1961) and Ingar Dragset (1968) is characterized by subversive humor and an original vision of serious cultural issues. Commissioned by SIR, they developed the performance work It’s Never Too Late to Say Sorry, the unveiling of which coincided with the opening of the artist duo’s first major retrospective in the Netherlands: The One and the Many in the Onderzeebootloods in Rotterdam. It’s Never Too Late to Say Sorry consists of a carefully designed museum display case containing a polished, stainless steel megaphone on a granite pedestal.The sculpture is placed in front of the former main post office on Coolsingel, a large empty space where many people pass by every day. The megaphone is used by a person (Konings) who appears at the display case, opens the door, takes out the megaphone and blares across Coolsingel, ‘It’s never too late to say sorry’.. This performance was repeated for one year, every day at the stroke of noon. Today, the performance can be seen and heard every Wednesday. This book with detailed reports of 366 days (in Dutch), is an ode by Konings to the project.
- Person as subject
- Elmgreen & Dragset (Michael Elmgreen, Ingar Dragset), Wim Konings
- Keywords
- conceptual art - see also - art movement , performance art in public space
- Location
- Cabinet 31 - 1: Performance ; lichaam en ruimte
- Extra themes
- art in public space
