ART THAT KILLS / A COLLECTION OF PUBLIC ART PROJECTS THAT HAVE KILLED OR MAIMED
Falling statue kills 5-year-old Otago boy in Bali
11.07.2005 9.00am / REPORTED IN THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD
A Clyde, Central Otago, family are in mourning after their 5-year-old son was killed when an ornamental statue fell on him at a Bali hotel on Friday.
Jack Hogg was on holiday with parents Karen and Don Hogg at Segara Village hotel in Sanur, 20 minutes from Kuta.
Moments before the tragedy, Jack had been playing hide and seek with his dad. Mrs Hogg said he had just begun to climb the 1.4m stone statue when it fell on him.
ARTIST IS NOT NAMED
_Sculpture at Resort Crushes Boy / SOUTH KOREA _
07/01/2004 10:11 KST / REPORTED IN YONHAPNEWS WORLD SERVICE, ENGLISH EDIT
YANGPYEONG, South Korea, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- A 10-year-old boy was killed when a bronze sculpture at a resort toppled over and crushed him, police said Wednesday.
The 1.7-meter, 300-kilogram sculpture tumbled onto the boy, identified only by his family name, Joo, at a resort in Yangpyeong, about 40 kilometers southeast of Seoul, Tuesday afternoon, police said.
ARTIST IS NOT NAMED
_Inflatable Art Kills Two, LONDON _
Sunday, 23 July 2006 / 20:09 GMT 21:09 UK / REPORTED IN ARTDAILY.COM
LONDON, ENGLAND.- A gust of wind blew an inflatable art exhibit from its moorings at a British park Sunday, killing two people and injuring 12, police said to the Associated Press. Maurice Agis has dedicated his artistic life to creating space and light experiences. His latest work, Dreamspace, turned into tragedy on Sunday.
Dreamspace is an inflatable, brightly colored walk-in sculpture created by English artist Maurice Agis. This huge installation made of 106 different plastic cells, all joined together to create an entire body of color, forms an interactive experience for all those who enter it. Blues, reds, grays and greens undulate and meld together under the play of light, creating waves of ever-changing color that infuse the area. The entire structure is supported by currents of air that flow through the sculpture, encouraging a living, breathing effect. Agis is a sculptor, but a sculptor of air and space, and has managed to capture these ephemeral elements with his work.
The entire sculpture covers 2000m² and is totally cut-off from the outside world. There are no corridors, just unfolding space with forest-like columns dividing the different cells, through which air and music flow. Contemporary composer Stephen Montague has collaborated with Agis creating Bright Interiors, a soundtrack of 16 loops that endlessly repeat and interact, as the light and color interacts within the space. Montague has taken sounds from natural sources and reworked them on computer, combining nature and technology to fill space as Agis has used light and colored plastic
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