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Schleudersitz

Cornelia Konrads's Schleudersitz: a park bench pulled back from a forked pine like the pouch of a giant slingshot.
Artwork FileEining · Germany

Schleudersitz

Reported10 Feb 2017

Cornelia Konrads · Eining

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Cornelia Konrads made Schleudersitz in Eining, Germany, for the 2010 Flying Objects exhibition. A bent pine tree and a public bench become a giant slingshot, placing an everyday seat inside an apparently loaded mechanism. Source Source Reported

Present condition unverified. Source Dates refer to the linked evidence, not a new on-site inspection.

💡 4 things to know

  1. A bench as a projectileKonrads's artwork record describes putting a local public bench in front of a bent pine tree. The arrangement makes the seat look ready to launch. Source Reported
  2. Built for a former vineyardKonrads's artwork record describes the site as a former vineyard, then used as a leisure park overlooking the Danube valley. Source Reported
  3. A photograph from opening dayJürgen Schrader's panorama is dated 5 June 2010. Its description gives the Flying Objects exhibition dates as 5 June to 31 October 2010. Source Reported
  4. Later coverage is retrospectiveIGNANT included the bench slingshot in a February 2017 feature on Konrads. It does not provide a new photo-capture date, so it cannot establish that the installation still stood then. Source Reported

📍 Where it is

Former vineyard used as a leisure park above the Danube, Eining (Neustadt an der Donau), Germany; precise position unverified Source Source Reported

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🗓️ Sightings

  1. 20105 Jun

    Schrader's panorama records the installation during the Flying Objects exhibition.

  2. 201710 Feb

    IGNANT's retrospective includes the bench slingshot; photo-capture date unstated.

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📰 On the record

IGNANT10 Feb 2017

Incredible Land Art Installations By Cornelia Konrads

“an enormous slingshot made from a common park bench.”

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✅ The facts

Artist
Cornelia Konrads Source Checked
Year
2010 Source Checked
Municipality
Neustadt an der Donau, Germany Source Checked
Location
Eining, Germany Source Reported
Materials
Rubber, steel cable, wooden bench, paint; placed in front of a bent pine tree Source Checked
Dimensions
4 m high × 3 m wide × 14 m deep Source Checked
Exhibition
Flying Objects (Flugobjekte), 5 June–31 October 2010 Source Reported
Dated panorama
Jürgen Schrader; photographed 5 June 2010 Source Reported

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Photo: from the Street Art Utopia archive; photographer not recorded (the image bears an illegible signature watermark); camera date unspecified. Full framing retained. Share image retains the full photograph over a blurred background.

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