'Die' created at The Power Station, Dallas by Oscar Tuazon is another works which 1ina100 artist Felix Melia is currently inspired by. Here Tuazon talks about his practise:

"I’ve always worked in a crawl space, that’s a recurrent thing in my life, working under houses. Some things nobody is going to do for you, that goes even if you got money to throw at it and I do. I only need a little light to work. I do what I need to do. I get down on my gut and get down to work in the dirt, I wear half a shirt on the bottom of my face. I make my own space, I don’t work hard I work smart, I get high, I brick myself in and get high, I get by. What do you think I think about? I just, I close my eyes and throw mortar between the stones with a trowel.

I started with nothing and look where I am now. What’re my rights? A man has to fight. The conditions were never right, the conditions for a revolutionary consciousness are never in place, the conditions actually are always there, a kind of figment of the air, a molecule more than a condition, a virus, I mean there are no material conditions, just something we’re breathing and we don’t even know it. I actually have to scratch in the dirt to make my living, there’s no way around it and never will be, feller. And I don’t know that replacing a thing actually changes it, say if I’m repointing a wall it’s still a wall right. A thing doesn’t know what itis. There’s something down there I need to get to, just space, something you can’t put your hand on. I’ll know when I see it, I’ll see it." (Oscar Tuazon)

Felix Melia - a 1ina100 artist is currently looking at Letha Wilson, a mixed media artist currently working in Brooklyn. Wilson talks of his work "using images and materials from the natural landscape as a starting point for interpretation and confrontation. The works create relationships between architecture and nature, and the gallery space and the American wilderness. In the photo-based sculptures the ability for a photograph to transport the viewer is both called upon, and questioned; sculptural intervention attempts to compensate for the photograph’s failure to encompass the physical site it represents."

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Felix Melia (a 1ina100 artist) explains some of his current inspirations:

"This is a piece entitled "Big Wheel" by the installation and performance artist Chris Burden. It connects objects in a mobile state and a stationary position, and highlights the thin line that connects violence and serenity. The video shows an active yet immobile motorcycle causing a large three tonne wheel to spin, that eventually achieves such a speed it appears not to be moving at all. This piece draws upon a violent burst of energy, whilst simultaneously creating a hypnotic spectacle. Whilst we understand the implications of the wheels gigantic potential energy and therefore it's potential for destruction, in it's this fixed rotation it begins to have meditative qualities."





"This duality puts me in mind of the romantic image of the motorcycle within culture generally and americana culture more specifically, the idea that the speed of a powerful machine is the key to a kind of freedom channelled through reckless abandon is an archaic but interesting one. This work, and some of Burden's performance works reminded me of Jason Jessee, a legendary motorbike riding, gun toting ex pro skateboarder. The almost split second nature of this clip where Jessee narrowly avoids an injury gives over a similar idea of the strange containment of a mass of energy."

Cyprien Gaillard repeatedly explores the absurd aspects of dystopic architectures and their remaining ruins through such strategies as dilapidation, destruction, demolition, preservation, conservation and reconstruction of architecture. In doing so he always departs from the process itself.

For his exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin Gaillard has created a new, large-scale piece. Similarly to the relocation of the Pergamon Altar, 72,000 bottles of beer of the brand “Efes” have been transported from Turkey to Germany. The cardboard boxes filled with bottles form the even steps of the pyramid. By using the monument – by climbing the sculpture and drinking the beer – its destruction is already initiated.