Below is a video accompanying the book art installation called The $100,000 Art Gallery by Michael Lee Hong Hwee of Studio Bibliotheque in Hong Kong. The project is based on the never-built Singapore Art Gallery designed by architect Dr. Ho Kok Hoe in 1958. (I'm pretty sure the David Copperfield in the title of the post is the magician, not the Dickens character; that had my stymied for a minute.)
There are four books: Texts, which is a kind of scrapbook; Plans, which is a laser cut 3D representation of the building's interior plans, in a page-by-page MRI slice view; Perspectives, a flip-book of the exterior architectural renderings with people and landscaping; and Assemblages, which has some really impressive engineering in it, though I'm not sure what connection they have to the other three, unless it represents the art that would have filled the building. It's worth seeing just for the last book, which takes up about half the video. It's a little like the ShitDisco vid I posted about earlier, but silent and much more sedate. The disembodied hands and silence make it just a little creepy. Since the books are in display cases though, I like the idea of having the vid there so you can see what they look like inside, especially since they're so nondescript outside.
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