Hydraulic jacks help rescue art installation prior to demolition.
Now here’s something you don’t see every day. In January 2010, Roger Hiorns’ Seizure, an art installation comprising an abandoned council flat with an interior entirely coated in blue crystals, closed its doors to the public. The building, near Elephant and Castle in South London, was scheduled for demolition.
In January 2011, weeks before the demolition began, a decision was made to preserve Seizure – by somehow pushing it out of the flat in which it was created.
From 15 June 2013, the piece is at a new and very different location in Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Seizure: Deconstruction from Artangel on Vimeo.
