Installation This looks like Art

April 2011
Dormitory kitchen, Tartu, Estonia
Piret Karro

Stationary objects in the communal kitchen of a dormitory were labeled as if in a gallery. The label provided true or fictional titles of the objects, true measurements and true materials. The exhibition title installed on the kitchen door also stated the format: bad humor or mediocre art.

Label examples:

SINK
60x60x13
ready-made, metal

TAP
25x10x3
ready-made, metal

SQUARE
15x15
ceramics

WINDOW

54,5x124
glass, dust

RADIATOR

80x57x13
metal, system

PERFECT HOLE
84x84x84
emptiness

  

LAMP
light, other

TOWN VIEW
actual and imaginary

Action Hairdresser

16.10.2009

Spontaneous action Hairdresser

art attic, Hugo Treffner Gymnasium

Piret Karro, Triinu Eesmaa, Anastasia Lvova, Kristi Karro

During a 30-minute break between two examinations, a retreat into the art classroom in the attic of a high school takes place. A distribution of actions follow: one places a large piece of brown paper under a chair, sits on the chair; another begins to cut her hair; third begins to draw a human torso on a canvas; fourth takes the position of an observer. After 30 minutes, the group ceases to proceed their actions. One stands up, leaving the cuts of her hair around the chair; places the drawing of a torso on the chair on her place, takes a piece of paper, writes: "INSTALLATION Hairdresser. Open until Wednesday. Authors unknown." The group leaves the room, leaving the spontaneously created installation behind.