Chicago Spire : Foundations - Lewis Kostiner

“Perhaps no construction project over the last five years in the United States symbolizes our great economic collapse than that of the 2000 foot tall Chicago Spire designed by Santiago Calatrava. A short time from now the 1500 or so condominiums in the building were to have been sold and occupied over the course of the next year or two until the the financial world changed, credit dried up and the real estate markets all but collapsed. I was fortunate enough to know the developer Garrett Kelleher, and asked him if I could make a photographic record from the start to finish of his massive work and he agreed. What you see on this page of thumbnails does not in any way do justice to the scope and breadth of what was to be the tallest and potentially most spectacular modern architecture built in years in the United States. Image (#2) is the model in Garrett’s office photographed on May 24, 2007, then in (#9) in September of 2007 we see the simple piece of steel with the vertical line on it which represents the very center of the great circular core of the structure. Image (#17) in early 2008 takes us down into the 100 foot deep center core hole, where the workers appear as tiny specs and finally in the last image (#32), after hundreds of millions of dollars spent, the abandoned site with its simple core hole as seen on August 25, 2008, with the just completed 94 story Trump Tower in the background. The saddest image for me is (#30), the green rectangle painted on the side of the very last deep caisson with the thoughts of all the workers and people involved in bringing this work so far along. They had such high hopes.”

natalie gonzalez

Photographer & Artist:

Rick Garrett

“Symbiosis”

Mutated beauties

tannerbuhnaner:

“Untitled” (Double Negative Portrait of Ross in L.A.)

Tanner Bowman

Performance Started November 18th,2012

Completed December 3rd, 2012

Performance Score:

“Exchange one piece of candy from Felix Gonzalez Torres’s “Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) with another piece of candy from “Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)”

“Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) Gold piece of candy from the Art Institute of Chicago (Permanent Collection)

-exchanged for-

“Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) Silver piece of candy from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Regarding Warhol)

Thanks to Jessica Stocker, Tewosret Vaughn, Jeff Gagnon, and Reilly Drew for the support and documentation.

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