Shedboatshed (Mobile Architecture No. 2)

E894648

Shedboatshed (Mobile Architecture No. 2) is a conceptual artwork by Simon Starling in which a wooden shed was transformed into a boat, sailed along the Rhine, and then reconstructed as a shed inside a museum, exploring themes of transformation, utility, and artistic process.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Shedboatshed (Mobile Architecture No. 2) canonical 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf conceptual artwork
installation art
artForm process-based art
sculptural installation
artist Simon Starling NERFINISHED
conceptualFocus conversion of architecture into vehicle
return of vehicle to architecture
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
creator Simon Starling NERFINISHED
depicts Rhine River journey
documentedIn photographic documentation
video documentation
exhibitedAt museum
fieldOfWork installation and conceptual practice
genre conceptual art
hasPart boat
shed
hasSubtitle Mobile Architecture No. 2 NERFINISHED
hasTitle Shedboatshed NERFINISHED
inception early 2000s
intendedAudience museum visitors
languageOfWork nonverbal work
locationOfPerformance Rhine River NERFINISHED
mainSubject artistic process
transformation
utility
materialUsed boat
wooden shed
medium mixed media
movement contemporary art
notableWorkOf Simon Starling NERFINISHED
performer Simon Starling NERFINISHED
process dismantling shed
reassembling boat back into shed
reconstructing shed as boat
sailing boat along the Rhine
relatedWork Mobile Architecture series NERFINISHED
theme labor and craft in art
mobility of architecture
narrative of making
recycling of materials
relationship between function and form
site-specificity
temporality in art
usesTechnique deconstruction and reconstruction
site-specific journey

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Simon Starling notableWork Shedboatshed (Mobile Architecture No. 2)