La butte aux coquelicots, 1993 |
made with Richard Müller
7ha, 2 million poppy seeds
Intervention in the public space in Ivry-sur-Seine
Project realized with the help of ENSBA Paris, the cultural service and the green spaces service of the city of Ivry-sur-Seine
In Ivry-sur-Seine, in eastern Paris, a mound of garbage was prepared to be covered with millions of poppy seeds. A year later, the experience was repeated at the Potsdamer Platz on the land left fallow after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Report: La butte aux coquelicots, France 3 Paris, June 28, 1993 (INA website)
Bibliography: Le paysage en mouvement. Les nouvelles marches urbaines (article), by Gaëtane Lamarche-Vadel, Les annales de la recherche urbaine n°85, 1999
Intervention in the public space in Ivry-sur-Seine
Project realized with the help of ENSBA Paris, the cultural service and the green spaces service of the city of Ivry-sur-Seine
In Ivry-sur-Seine, in eastern Paris, a mound of garbage was prepared to be covered with millions of poppy seeds. A year later, the experience was repeated at the Potsdamer Platz on the land left fallow after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Report: La butte aux coquelicots, France 3 Paris, June 28, 1993 (INA website)
Bibliography: Le paysage en mouvement. Les nouvelles marches urbaines (article), by Gaëtane Lamarche-Vadel, Les annales de la recherche urbaine n°85, 1999
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Photos: © Jan Kopp and Richard Müller