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That sinking feeling: Venice Biennale's floating house shipwrec

All art shown at the Venice Biennale of modern art must be transported to the site by waterways, including the bulkiest pieces. That's not without risk as American artist Mike Bouchet learned: Havi...  
 

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MarcinP2 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Houses sinking in Venice! Global warming!!!

;)
TheG4schberle (1 month ago) Show Hide
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My uncle was the engineer who planned the whole thing for Bouchet.
The house was sinkin coz of 2 problems:
1: for transporting they didnt put the house onto old tires, and so thei damage 1 of the pontons. That causes the house to swim skew.
the next problem was that the workers forget to close the pontons with the caps. So all the other pontons start to float, too.

So it was a huge fail. but a FUNNY one.^^

Btw: thei got it out with a crane (must hav been very exensive)
AwesomeTechno15 (4 months ago) Show Hide
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did they get it out? or let it sink?
hbotis (4 months ago) Show Hide
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It was still floating during the preview, but looked kinda sinking.
BeenInVenice (5 months ago) Show Hide
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ah, venice. its an amazing place.
seethevolcane (5 months ago) Show Hide
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Sinking house? Metaphor for the
Venice show..perfect!
gojomo (5 months ago) Show Hide
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Suburbriety?
gojomo (5 months ago) Show Hide
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My guess is that sinking the house was always part of the original 'performance' plan.
FlakeSE (5 months ago) Show Hide
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sound is completely broken, cant hear anything the guys are saying.
gojomo (5 months ago) Show Hide
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FYI: interview sound is all from right channel.

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