Kasper Kovitz

icehouse

icehouse movie

icehouse interior

icehouse interior walk-through

Kasper Kovitz – icehouse [Nova Scotia, Canada] 2010

1) install cameras on the island.

2) tear off the landings and piers and close the island to the public – forever.

3) put the cameras online. Now everybody can verify the island is really vacated.

4) go back to calling the island “Nutten”.

Nutten (formerly Governors Island)

160-acre vacated island, cameras connected to free-access TV and web.

Kasper Kovitz 2009

For more information on, and to support this project become a fan on Facebook for: What to do with Governors Island: NUTTEN

...nor did I want to leave

bottom line

upside

…nor did I want to leave; lead in bamboo ; 2009;  57 1/2″ to 66 3/4″

I was just notified that the Pollock-Krasner Foundation awarded me a grant. Needless to say I am very happy. Thank you Pollock-Krasner Foundation!

www.pkf.org

studio Brooklyn

Rate Your Progress

Rate Your Progress

photos: Kasuhiro Saiki

Kasper Kovitz – Rate Your Progress [Schoharie County, NY] 2009

25′ x 10′ x 12′      8 x 3 x 4 m  – six walls total

at International Studio & Curatorial Program, NYC, 1040 Metropolitan Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11211

One more note:

rate your progress…

When I started to work on Rate Your Progress, I thought of a clearing in the woods and what we associate with a clearing, usually something positive. I came across this image: A massive bomb is the reason for the clearing in the otherwise completely dense forest/jungle. It is a strange realization that in this instance the bomb is the cause for light to enter…

bomb site clearing, Vietnam