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Photos: Chill Out With Giant Chunks Of Glacier At PS 1's New "Expo 1"

Olafur Eliasson, he of <a href="http://gothamist.com/2008/06/27/nyc_waterfalls_night_moves.php#photo-1">the Waterfalls fame</a>, calls this installation "Your waste of time." It consists of massive pieces of ice that broke off from Iceland's largest glacier, Vatnajokull. The oldest ice in the glacier is estimated to have originated 800 years ago.<br/>

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Pierre Huyghe's "Zoodram 5": Live marine ecosystem, sculptured shell, basalt rock, glass tank, filtration system. We're told the installation features a hermit crab and arrow crabs. <br/>

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Ian Cheng's eerie kinetic installation (see video in this post) consists of live mobile devices, mineral oil, silica, sand.<br/>

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Alisa Baremboym's "6-D"<br/>

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Olafur Eliasson, he of <a href="http://gothamist.com/2008/06/27/nyc_waterfalls_night_moves.php#photo-1">the Waterfalls fame</a>, calls this installation "Your waste of time." It consists of massive pieces of ice that broke off from Iceland's largest glacier, Vatnajokull. The oldest ice in the glacier is estimated to have originated 800 years ago.<br/>

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John Miller's "A Refusal to Set Limits"<br/>

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John Miller's "A Refusal to Set Limits"<br/>

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The VW Dome, which was used for the opening press conference, will be taken down this week to make way for the Young Architects Program "<a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/01/17/moma_ps1_gets_party_wall_for_this_s.php">Party Wall" installation</a> in the courtyard.<br/>

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Argentinian architecture firm a77 is creating a "colony" in the PS1 courtyard in which "artists, thinkers, architects, and other cultural agents are invited to live together." As you can see, the installation is just getting started, and will use salvaged materials to allude to the "powerful storms that have left behind large swaths of wreckage destined for landfills."<br/>

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Latifa Echakhch's "Erratum," created by smashing Moroccan tea glasses against the gallery wall.<br/>

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Peter Buggenhout's "The Blind Leading the Blind" consists of polystyrene, polyester, iron, wood, trash, and other material covered with household dust.<br/>

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Polish artist Pawel Althamer's "Brodno People"<br/>

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Polish artist Pawel Althamer's "Brodno People"<br/>

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Adrian Vilar Rojas's "The Innocence of the Animals" resembles "both an amphitheater of antiquity and a post-apocalyptic auditorium." Literary types were reading political stuff out loud during the press preview.<br/>

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Adrian Vilar Rojas's "The Innocence of the Animals" resembles "both an amphitheater of antiquity and a post-apocalyptic auditorium."<br/>

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Adrian Vilar Rojas's "The Innocence of the Animals" resembles "both an amphitheater of antiquity and a post-apocalyptic auditorium."<br/>

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Adrian Vilar Rojas's "The Innocence of the Animals" resembles "both an amphitheater of antiquity and a post-apocalyptic auditorium."<br/>

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Adrian Vilar Rojas's "The Innocence of the Animals" resembles "both an amphitheater of antiquity and a post-apocalyptic auditorium."<br/>

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Adrian Vilar Rojas's "The Innocence of the Animals" resembles "both an amphitheater of antiquity and a post-apocalyptic auditorium."<br/>

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Adrian Vilar Rojas's "The Innocence of the Animals" resembles "both an amphitheater of antiquity and a post-apocalyptic auditorium."<br/>

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Adrian Vilar Rojas's "The Innocence of the Animals" resembles "both an amphitheater of antiquity and a post-apocalyptic auditorium."<br/>

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Adrian Vilar Rojas's "The Innocence of the Animals" resembles "both an amphitheater of antiquity and a post-apocalyptic auditorium."<br/>

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A school that's part of Expo 1 features a library that will grow throughout the exhibition.<br/>

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James Turrell's "Meeting" is a permanent installation at PS1, and is only open at specific times in the afternoon, weather permitting.<br/>

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Meg Webster's "Pool" was originally commissioned for MoMA PS1 in 1998 and has been brought back for Expo 1. Look closely, and you can see live koi in the pool.<br/>

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Gordon Matta-Clark's classic <a href="http://tacticaldesign.mit.edu/archives/73">"Fresh Air Cart"</a> consists of "a wheelchair like cart with two oxygen tanks that doled out fresh air to passerbys in the streets of New York City" in 1972. <br/>

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Chris Burden's Another World 2, a 1993 piece consisting of Wood, glass, two models of the Titanic, Erector set.

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The ProBio group show is kept squeaky clean by robot vacuums.

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