SomethingRegal

The Equator Memorial Project

The project presented here is entitled the Equatorial Memorial Project, an international itinerant collaboration of artists who exhibit and sell handcrafted furniture and artifacts from recycled wood and historical monuments. The project has its origins in furniture designed and built by Johann Sigmarsson in 2011, using wood from the Reykjavík harbor, which was otherwise destined to be destroyed when the harbor underwent refurbishment. The project is to create artifacts and functional objects by recycling historical materials from all over the world. So far, we have managed to acquire such materials from the Reykjavík Harbor, the Port of Hamburg, the Berlin Wall and Hiroshima. Plans have been drawn up to obtain memento materials from 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and from the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane, which has been preserved untouched since almost all its inhabitants were massacred on June 10, 1944. To manage the implementation of the project, the private company 40.074KM was established in August 2013. The company name is derived from the length of Earth 's equator in kilometers. The mission is to design, create and present a new functional objects and art pieces from recycled world memento materials. The intention is to form a small group of artists who travel between countries, building functional objects and creating artworks from historical monuments. It will be established in cooperation with other artists and businesses, in the countries were the materials derive. When the project is completed it will be exhibited on a specific heritage site or at galleries or museums suitable for the project. The first exhibition opened in June 28th 2013 at Reykjavik City Hall in cooperation with UNESCO.