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Monument as Ruin is a project completing the trinity of sites that maps the decentralization of warfare across the 20th century via early warning outposts: from WWI sound experiments, through WWII visual command bunkers, to Cold War electromagnetic radar stations.

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List of works

Charles Stankievech

Monument as Ruin (Earth)

2011


Archival pigment ink on baryta paper 100 x 150cm
Edition: 5 + 2 AP

           

Charles Stankievech

Monument as Ruin (Wreck)

2011


Archival pigment ink on baryta paper 100 x 150cm
Edition: 5 + 2 AP

           

 

Charles Stankievech

The Second Coming

2015


Installation with:

19min looping video projection, 610cm wide

cement paraboloid, 365 x 365 x 198cm

Soundtrack composed by Colin Stetson

           

Charles Stankievech

L’Aigle (Fragment 606)

2015


Cast pigmented concrete 150 x 50 x 99cm

           

Charles Stankievech

L’Aigle (Fragment 649)

2015

Cast pigmented concrete 69 x 130 x 155cm

           

Charles Stankievech

L’Aigle (Fragment 636)

2015


Cast pigmented concrete 53 x 119 x 147cm

           

Campo Del Cielo Meteorite (fragment 636)

Argentina, impact 2000 BCE, discovered by Spanish Military 1576 2.5 x 2.5 x 3cm

Sikhote-Alin Meteorite (fragment 649)

USSR, impact 1947, observed 2.5 x 2.5 x 3cm

Mounionalusta Meteorite (fragment 606)

Sweden, impact 1 billion BCE, discovery 1906 0.2x7x4

Collection Stankievech

           

GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI

Hadrian’s Villa:
Apse of the so-called Hall of the Philosophers


1774

etching on paper
44.3 x 58.0cm

Collection of Agnes Etherington Art Centre

           

A. E. VAN VOGT

Black Destroyer

July 1939
Novella in Astounding Science Fiction Stories


Book: 22.8 x 16.5 x 2cm

Archival pigment print: 22.8 x 391cm

Collection Stankievech

           

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES (IBM)

c.1960

5081 punch card from United States Air Force base, Thule, Greenland

Paper
19 x 8cm

Collection Stankievech

           

HARALD SZEEMANN

Science Fiction (Kunsthalle Bern)

1967


Broadsheet newspaper
48 x 30cm (folded)

Collection Stankievech