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Random Institute regularly releases failed or unrealized projects online. Some weren’t ripe yet, some were flat out rejected, and some just didn’t make any sense at all. But each of them brought us new ideas.

Lonely us

ArchivedHappened in January 2017
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Fribourg
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Belluard Festival

A play is announced at a theatre, to which twelve tickets are sold. The night of the play, twelve taxis await the spectators in front of the venue, bringing each guest to a host suffering from loneliness who has volunteered to share their company, and their personal story of solitude, for an hour and a half.

Remains to Be Seen

ArchivedHappened in May 2013
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Iceland
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65.3375011000
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Kunsthalle Tropical

Ten artists each contributed an artwork consisting of nothing more than a few sentences. All of their words will be read aloud from a small airplane as it circles above the Kunsthalle Tropical, an exhibition site that none of the artists have visited. Instead, the artists drew inspiration from the idea that some places are best visited only in one’s imagination.

The work will never actually be seen—its form is oral, its locale inhospitable.

Free Repair

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San José
ExhibitionUnrealizedFailed
9.9336674000
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Despacio

Roland Roos finds broken things and fixes them, whether you've asked him to or not. With his flair for craftsmanship, he makes the chaotic streets of San José his exhibition space and actively engages with the places that art is a part of, repairing everyday landscapes in an open, collaborative project for urban and artistic development.

Creative Crossfire: Art & Law

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Zurich
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University of Zurich

Art and law: two terms that couldn’t seem further apart. On the one hand, we have rational jurisprudence, with its set rules and norms; on the other, we have art, which somehow always seems to evade any form of schematic evaluation. But are things really that simple?

High-Risk Investment Residency

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Zurich
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Credit Suisse HQ

We tried to get a bank to host a selection of conceptual artists on the trading floor. Something about all that money being thrown around just screamed “arts residency,” and we were convinced it would make a great investment for everyone involved. But the bank didn’t buy it, so we cut our losses and decided to lay off our banking aspirations for a while.

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