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Spoon

Pratchaya Phinthong, 2019

Open edition created from melted UXOs (Unexploded ordnance, unexploded bombs, and explosive remnants of war) originally thrown by the US forces during the Secret War in Laos between 1964 and 1973. Laos is one of the most heavily bombed areas in the world.

Metal, paper box, color postcard
Object: 9 x 13,3 cm aprox
Box: 3 x 11,4 x 15,9 cm
Postcard: 10,5 x 14,9 cm

Hearing that locals were collecting and melting down these bombs to make spoons to sell to tourists, Pratchaya Phinthong visited Napia.


€ 250  

“The Spoon project is an organic system in which products are made within the context of place, content, and ressources… There are two components to the project. On the one hand, I began to work with the villagers to create multiple productions that will transform bomb scraps into saleable items to support the local community. This income supplements limits to agricultural production , due to UXOs (Unexploded ordnance, unexploded bombs, and explosive remnants of war), which continue to threaten people’s lives and limit their access to cultivatable land. On the other hand, the project challenges my practice as an artist and cultural producer by asking to what extent an art production can communicate to an audience just how a collision unfolds between different worlds. What lay in this reflection and its reality.”

Pratchaya Phinthong

Les voix blanches (map)
Dominique Petitgand
€ 1200
Mes écoutes
Dominique Petitgand
€ 12
Omer Fast: Garage Sale
Omer Fast
€ 8
Fail to Fall
Roman Ondak
€ 20
It might never happen (Poster encounter)
Ryan Gander
€ 290
AMA. Ľubomír Ďurček, Květoslava Fulierová, Július Koller and Amateur Artists
Július Koller
€ 25
Collective Exhibition for a Single Body – The Private Score – The Licence
Pierre Bal-Blanc
€ 14
Deux mille quinze
Mark Geffriaud
€ 29
HOWOHWHWOOWHWHOWOH
Yann Sérandour
€ 21
On False Tears
Cally Spooner
€ 45
Collective Exhibition for a Single Body - The Private Score
Pierre Bal-Blanc
€ 6
Robert Breer: A à Z
Robert Breer
€ 25
Robert Breer: A to Z
Robert Breer
€ 25
And You Were Wonderful, On Stage
Cally Spooner
€ 13
Project Phalanstère at CAC Brétigny – or “Of museum orgy or mixed omnigamy in composite and harmonic order” Treatise
Pierre Bal-Blanc
€ 25
Toast
Mark Geffriaud
€ 25
écoute 3
Dominique Petitgand
€ 40
History Repeats Itself
Roman Ondak, Brigitte Huck
€ 30
One Man Anti Show, Dokumentation, Documentation, Dokumentàcia
Daniel Grúň, Kathrin Rhomberg, Georg Schöllhammer (eds.)
€ 25
Picasso and I
Ryan Gander
€ 10
Règle du jeu
Elina Brotherus
€ 35
One Man Anti Show
Július Koller
€ 25
Soleil Politique
Pierre Bal-Blanc
€ 25
The light from the north
Elina Brotherus
€ 30
Da Capo Fifteen Films
Deimantas Narkevičius
€ 30
Disasters
Pratchaya Phinthong
€ 70
Le présent continue
Omer Fast
€ 35
Les femmes de la Maison Carré
Elina Brotherus
€ 20
Sans son chien (Cadbury purple)
Yann Sérandour
€ 100
Tango-Housut / Tango Trousers
Elina Brotherus
€ 20
Culturefield
Ryan Gander
€ 55
D E I M A N T A S : Cupboard and a song
Deimantas Narkevičius
€ 5
Július Koller: Galéria Ganku
Július Koller
€ 30
Roman Ondak: Time Capsule
Roman Ondak
€ 35
5,000 Feet Is the Best
Omer Fast
€ 25
Le Dit du dé
Ryan Gander
€ 20
Loop
Roman Ondak
€ 40
Observations
Roman Ondak
€ 30
No. 2
Ryan Gander
€ 12
Roman Ondak - Notebook
Roman Ondak
€ 50
Rosa's Letters
Pia Rönicke
€ 24
Robert Breer
Robert Breer
€ 45
Július Koller: Science-Fiction Retrospective
Július Koller
€ 65
Bez Názvu - Jiří Kovanda, 1970‑2001
Jiří Kovanda
€ 35
Inside the White Cube – Overprinted edition
Yann Sérandour
€ 25
Notes on It’s a Right Heath Robinson Affair
Ryan Gander
€ 5
Measuring the Universe
Roman Ondak
€ 25
Etudes d'après modèle, danseurs
Elina Brotherus
€ 50
Roman Ondak
Roman Ondak
€ 30
Robert Breer: Films, Floats & Panoramas
Robert Breer
€ 30
Roman Ondak
Roman Ondak
€ 35
The New Painting
Elina Brotherus
€ 50
I wanna tell you something
Omer Fast
€ 15
(textes/sons)
Dominique Petitgand
€ 10
Float
Robert Breer
€ 300
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