The Agency of Unrealized Projects

Shurtleff Cat Hair Project Proposal Submitted to The Agency of Unrealized Projects

A description of the AUP project:

"Architects often exhibit their ideas, in the absence of any construction, in the form of design plans and models. Why shouldn’t artists enjoy a similar freedom to display art that is unrealized, and perhaps unrealizable? The AUP seeks to honor and document the artistic agency inherent in the incomplete idea, the partial expression, even the mere intention. The AUP believes that 'whether censored, forgotten, postponed, impossible, or rejected, unrealized projects form a unique testament to the speculative power of non-action.'

The collection of Unrealized Projects will be on display at a temporary AUP office in Basel this June. 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."