PLAN - Blue and white enamel, metal, 152 sqm/1636sq ft, (1997 - on-going)
Dunsmore, whilst on residency in Weimar, Germany, discovered the material for the socio-historical artwork PLAN. The installation consists of 900 enamelled Weimar street signs, covering of 152 sqm/ 450 unique individual street names dating from 1910 – 1989.
With the unification of Germany and during extensive renovation of the City of Weimar in preparation for its hosting of the European City of Culture in 1999. The metal enamel signs were replaced by new plastic ones. The old streets signs were thrown in a bin awaiting disposal, when Dunsmore discovered them.
Over the duration of her initial residency at ACC Galerie in Weimar, Dunsmore recovered, researched, cleaned, documented and set up the on-going preservation with ACC Galerie of the storage of the street signs.
PLAN premiered in 1998, as an installation of storage boxes with the material signs covering the walls of the ACC Gallerie, Weimar. PLAN traveling to the inaugural Melbourne International Biennial, Australia, in 1999, with a curatorial intention to present all 152 sqm/1636sq ft. Dunsmore’s response to site installing 76sqm/818sq ft. In 2005, Motorenhalle Gallerie in Dresden, Germany, the installation consisted of 38sqm/ 409sq ft. The most recent presentation PLAN of took place in 2019, for the 'Solidarity, now more than ever' anniversary exhibition, the artwork, again covering the walls of at the ACC Galerie, Weimar.
PLAN - size varies, originally 152 sqm. 1997 - on-going. Artwork is represented by ACC Galerie Weimar, Germany.