Sochi Olympics Photo -- Or Site-Specific Contemporary Art Installation?

by Johannah King-Slutzky

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1. Carlie Trosclair, Kowalsky Intervention: Room 1, 2012.

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This is the one hotel room @Sochi2014 have given us so far. Shambles. #cnnsochi pic.twitter.com/RTjEkmyan3

— Harry Reekie (@HarryCNN) February 4, 2014

3. Urs Fischer, You

4. Sochi (via Business Insider)

5. Jim Woodall, You Have To Keep Building To Make It Stand, 2013

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#sochi good news , I have Internet , bad news, it’s dangling from the ceiling in my room… pic.twitter.com/WPp560Nr5c

— Simon Stanleigh (@Stanleigh77) February 2, 2014

7. Julien Gardair, Cheick_&_Mat, 2014

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You had one job, Sochi — http://t.co/MgDCKh5FNY pic.twitter.com/ushbXhFg0R

— Sporting News (@sportingnews) February 5, 2014

9. GMN Projects, “Corporate Bathroom Interventions”

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Watch your step @Sochi2014 — I’ve noticed on walkway and on sidewalks that not all man holes are always covered. pic.twitter.com/a5Nv4wu5iA

— Jo-Ann Barnas (@JoAnnBarnas) February 1, 2014

11. Josh Kline, Share the Health (Assorted Probiotic Hand Gels), 2011

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Spa and fitness center at Gorki Grand hotel…you get in shape by putting it together? pic.twitter.com/jqqOCP9Wt5

— Chris Dufresne (@DufresneLATimes) February 5, 2014

13. Vlad Loariu, Pilot and Bombardier

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Wondered why my #sochi2014 hotel room had a fire hose. Safest #Olympics yet? http://t.co/B16J5MiF4l pic.twitter.com/Pi3pXZ0Xjw

— Kathy Lally (@LallyKathy) February 2, 2014

15. Gordon Matta-Clark, building cut

16. Félix González-Torres, Untitled (Public Opinion)

17. Yolanda Ceballos, Environmental Sculpture Study #6

18. Robert Smithson, Yucatan Mirror Displacements

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On the way to the media center. The street is not quite ready yet. #SochiProblems pic.twitter.com/5lA4tmGoNz

— Simon Rosner (@SimonRosner) February 6, 2014

Johannah King-Slutzky writes poems and blogs about TV here. Follow her on twitter @jjjjjjjjohannah. Photo copyrights belong to the artists and the journalist-photographers, who are, actually, also artists.