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"I perceive that I will be delivered" 2001 Installation/event, The Old Courthouse, Thirsk, Yorkshi

By  Max Vollmer 2006

R M Vollmer

Courtesy of
Yorkshire Arts

Within the historical space of the 19th Century Court room (still in use in the 1970s) of the Old Thirsk Courthouse the artist constructed, from books, buildings that resembled primitive huts (cells? shelters? watchtowers?), some with reading lights and sound installation. Visitors could enter them by crawling through passages and squeezing through openings.

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"Forgive me, papa, I won't do it again" 1999 altered edition of Dostoyevsky's novels that includes

The information web (Homage to Foucault) 1998 maquette

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