Ann Messner

• early projects

  • 1977-1980 performance and related actions

    • 1977 4 small fires
    • 1977 door
    • 1978 escape
    • 1978 a project for andy
    • 1978 performance with amplified typing
    • 1978 stealing
    • 1978 hitchhiking
    • 1978 subway stories
    • 1979 a monument
    • 1977-79 other

  • 1980-1986 street interventions

    • 1980 three stations
    • 1981 intervene
    • 1981 night street tunnel | Paris
    • 1984 six evesdroppers
    • 1987 carts | Storefront for A&A

  • 1983-1998 temporary public projects

    • 1983 incubator | Williamsbrg Bridge NY
    • 1985 island
    • 1986 abandoned factory Utica NY | NGBK Berlin
    • 1986 whirlpool | Grey Art Gallery NYU
    • 1987 meteor | Times Square NY
    • 1990 bearing witness and nomad | City Hall NY
    • 1996-98 amniotic sea

• sculpture | installation

  • 1985-1989

    • 1985-86 crown receivers and shield
    • 1987 whirlpool and throne
    • 1987-88 cocoon and monitor
    • 1988 capsule
    • 1988 double boiler
    • 1989 gallery installation | Fawbush NY
    • 1989 gallery installation | Shoshana Wayne LA

  • 1990-1996

    • 1990-92 coolers
    • 1994-96 cookers and island
    • 1994-97 and others
    • 1991 gallery installation | Fawbush NYC
    • 1993 gallery installation | Fawbush NYC
    • 1995 on the subject of fire and the internal

  • 1996-2000

    • 1996-97 flood
    • 1997-98 hearing field and cave
    • 1997-99 submerged, trap and others
    • 2000 ground zero and epicenter

  • 2001-2005

    • 2001 heart of the matter
    • 2001 duel (simulation)
    • 2002 . . . see no, hear no. . .
    • 2003-04 oracle and ghost
    • 2003-05 here and there, stacked and others
    • 2004 dervish

  • 2006-2009

    • 2005-07 disasters of war
    • 2006-07 outpost
    • 2007-08 anatomy of an assassination
    • 2008 the question
    • 2009 who gets to speak?

• books | tabloids

  • 1990 bearing witness book

  • 2003 oracle

  • 2005-07 disasters of war 2nd edition

  • 2006 penitentiary

• collective action

  • 1980 real estate show

  • 1985 caribbean buoy

  • 2005 disarming images

  • 2006 if you see something, say something. . .

  • 2007 petition to congress

  • 2008 26 hours in custody

  • 2010 redact this!

• proposals and other texts

  • 1978 notes on amplified typing

  • 1995 beating heart

  • 1996 three projects | Guggenheim proposal

  • 1996 flood

  • 1998 memory and its illusion

  • 2000 UnNatural Couples

  • 2001 intitial proposal | Princeton Museum

  • 2002 piecing the puzzle | Princeton Museum

  • 2002 waiting room | Grand Central Station

  • 2002 the concrete texts | Creative Capital

  • 2002 tales of fortune | Queens Plaza

  • 2004 crossing the Rubicon | Rome

  • 2005 the Rubicon is not an option | Rome

  • 2005 penitentiary

  • 2007 secret pictures

  • 2007 outpost—a civic monument

  • 2007 architecture of resistance

  • 2007 caravan—an inverted world

  • 2007 swords to plowshares | Dublin

  • 2009 acts of eXchange

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