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HedgeCone

The core artifact of the HedgeCones corpus, first realized in 2013: new traffic cones, fixture fasteners, and an exercise ball released from their prescribed service through polyhedral assembly.

I would like the acquisition and provenance dossier for HedgeCone, including the identity and condition of its physical incarnation, its relationship to HedgeCone Rad, and authorized realization terms.

HedgeCone is the core artifact of the HedgeCones corpus within Deutilization. First realized in 2013, it places new manufactured objects into a polyhedral construction that interrupts their prescribed service while retaining their forms and physical capacities.

The documented material inventory comprises thirty new 18-inch traffic cones, sixty toilet-seat bolt-and-nut fasteners, and an exercise ball. The square cone bases occupy the square-face positions of a small rhombicosidodecahedral arrangement. Fasteners join the construction at its sixty vertex positions; the ball appears as a central sphere.

Its realization required assembly and reinforcement trials. July 2013 process records document bending, heat-related softening, and successful assembly. HedgeCone appeared at FIGMENT Boston on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in July 2013, received an award at the COOL exhibition at South Shore Art Center in November 2013, and appeared at TEDx Somerville in April 2014.

HedgeCone remains an operative artifact identity within HedgeCone Rad. The expanded 2014 work incorporates a complete authentic HedgeCone incarnation as its structural core and adds longer yellow cones. The same physical construction can embody both identities. Removal of the Rad additions can restore HedgeCone to independent presentation.

Deutilization concerns the interruption of assigned service. The cones no longer direct traffic, the fasteners no longer mount a toilet seat, and the ball no longer serves exercise. Their capacities for support and joining remain active.

The artifact identity, its authorized physical incarnation, and its situated installation are distinct. Additional incarnations or material alterations require artist authorization. Acquisition of a physical incarnation does not transfer the concept or a general reproduction right. Current condition, location, acquisition status, and overall dimensions require separate verification.

Documentation: HedgeCone project record; project archive; assembly record.

• Branch:

• Corpus / Series:

• Production Date:

• Production Date:

2013; successful assembly documented July 22, 2013

• Classification:

Conceptual artifact; polyhedral construction

• Realization Class:

• Process Class:

Deutilization through geometric assembly

• Protocol:

Preserve the artist-authorized configuration and registered identity-bearing components; reconstruction and material changes require authorization

• Recording Support Class:

• Substrate Class:

• Substrate:

• Recording Instrument Class:

• Medium Class:

Manufactured components

• Medium:

30 new 18-inch traffic cones; 60 toilet-seat bolt-and-nut fasteners; exercise ball

• Tool Class:

• Tool:

• Dimensions:

Overall dimensions unverified; original traffic-cone components are 18 in tall

• Procedure:

Join cone bases in the square-face positions of a small rhombicosidodecahedral arrangement around a central sphere

• Process Constraint:

Components selected new and functional; their prescribed service interrupted through assembly

• Process Event:

July 2013 assembly trials: bending; reinforcement experiments; heat-related softening; successful assembly reported July 22; subsequent displacement from pedestal

• Production Mode:

Geometric assembly of manufactured components

• Presentation State:

Independent HedgeCone configuration or complete structural core incorporated into an authentic HedgeCone Rad

• Orientation Status:

• Relationship:

Authentic HedgeCone incarnation forms the complete structural core of every authentic HedgeCone Rad; both artifact identities remain operative in the conjoined construction

Open Commentary PDF:

The release from assigned service

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HedgeCone Rad