TIL BLACK SQUARE XVII is an artwork made from vitrified nuclear waste created by Taryn Simon. The piece will be put on display when deemed safe for human exposure in 3015.
TIL BLACK SQUARE XVII is an artwork made from vitrified nuclear waste created by Taryn Simon. The piece will be put on display when deemed safe for human exposure in 3015.
👉 Garage Gallery
👉 Taryn Simon wiki
Taryn Simon collaborated with Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation (ROSATOM) to prepare a work of art made from nuclear material. In the year 3015, approximately one thousand years after its creation, a black square made from vitrified nuclear waste will be permanently displayed at Garage in a custom designed void that has been integrated into the new museum building.
Bold and optimistic of the artist to assume humanity would thrive for that long.
Though I imagine that very thought is more likely the purpose of the art.
Like the 1160 year German art project.
The only way this will ever get finished is if they form a religion whose goal is to build and worship the pyramid. Otherwise they forget why they even started putting blocks down and then some developer will eventually buy up the plot to build an Aldi3000 on it
And they even designed a place for it in a museum building. Wildly optimistic.
Dumb as fuck.
Anyway, humans will all be dead by then so whatever
Zero chance this is still around in a thousand years. Just too damn long. He’ll I’d be surprised if any of our current societies or cultures still exist then.
I believe that is the entire point of the piece.
It will be used to fuel the interdimensional portal gate by 2123
cool i cant wait to see it
I mean i doubt that will be there in a 1000 years but cool. For those of you saying humans will be long gone. Why do you think that? Quite a simple minded way of thinking if you ask me. Humanity needs to spread out from earth and explore for new planets so we can thrive across the universe. Being stuck on this planet for eternity might actually make us go extinct though. (not caused by humans but other space things like asteroids for example) the end goal for humanity is to last till the end of time itself. If it means billions if not trillions of life's have to die to get to that point then so be it. If it means having to wipe out an entire alien species to save ourselves then so be it. If it means we have to hibernate for millions of years on ships then so be it.
I personally hope humanity lasts until that last atom in the universe has been destroyed.
You make us sound like a disease.
Both are groups of organisms subject to the laws of evolution and ecology and trying to survive and propagate their species, yes. The comparison, while technically correct, is unhelpful and usually made in bad faith. In the grand scheme of things, life works similarly at all scales.
You could also say diseases work a lot like humans. We both do our best to spread and survive and adapt to our environments. That’s how nature works. That’s how a basic survival mechanism works.
From trees creating seeds that fly well on the wind and dropping them from great heights, to humans exploring and colonizing, to diseases spreading and growing in an attempt to survive as best as they can, we’re all the same in that basic way.
Nah just plain ol survival.
The hole in the wall would already classify as art