Nikolai Sutyagin

Artist - Nikolai Sutyagin
Title - Untitled
Location - Archangelsk, Russia

Nikolai Sutyagin started this amazing wooden skyscraper as a simple two-story structure, then just kept building. The building now stands 13 stories (144 feet) tall and is under threat of demolition out of safety concerns by authorities.

Peter Callesen - Small Scale Papercut Castle

Impenetrable Castle, 2005
Acid free A4 80 gsm paper and glue

Peter Callesen - Large Scale Papercut Castle

Castle, 2007
6 x 6 x 3 m
Cut and folded from one piece of 350 gsm paper
Fairy Tale, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, Uk
Photo: Jonathan Shaw

Peter Callesen - Tower

Tower, 50 min. performance at the opening of Masculinities,
NIKOLAJ Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, November 2001.

A performance inside an exhibition space, is it different from a performance outside? does the environment in which a performance is performed alter or restrict the effect of the overall piece? Inside, an object that is relatively large can appear huge, an object that is small can appear of average size. whereas if they were place outside in an open environment, they would both become a lot less daunting in size, and perhaps be dwarfed by their surroundings. think about this when assembling my work

Peter Callesen - Castle

Castle
Performance, Goldsmiths College, 19th - 28th of January 1999

A performance the artist new would fail, due to the resources used and the state of the environment he was assembling the piece in. cardboard is non-durable and therefore an nonpermanent resource, just like a dream, or a fleeting sight of fantasy, it is permeable installation. To build a piece knowing it is going to fail, what does this mean? if this is not important, does the work become all about the process, and the struggle of the efforts of the creator in creating the work?

Peter Callesen - Palace of Dreams

Performance festival Amorph in Helsinki, August 29 – 31 2003.
2 x 3 x 3 meter floating Castle made of white polystyrene.

A castle made entirely from polystyrene, that floats on the water. not a performance piece, but the viewer is rowed out to spend half an hour inside the palace of dreams by the artist himself, before being picked up in the same two man row boat Callesen drops them off in. so although it is not a performance, the artist still plays a role, above the architect and creator. could i incorporate these ideas in to my contemporary practice?

Peter Callesen - Floating Castle

Floating Castle, 2002
2 week performance and installation
4 x 6 x 5 m. Recycled wood, metal pontoon, nails and screws, kings costume & paper crown,
Artgenda, Oberhafen, Hamburg, Germany

A functional castle on water. both an installation and a performance. would my work be more successful as a performance? should i include the construction as part of the work, or leave it as a process?