stockpiling
to heap up (ore, coal, etc.) in piles at the surface, to accumulate a stock of (something); spec. to build up a stock of (nuclear weapons).
2009
media: bbs and magnets
dimensions: 130 sq. ft.
‘Stockpiling’ is an installation whose
walls are layered with 24 gauge steel plates, over 100,000 magnets, and
more than one ton of bbs.
Used for expressive rather than ballistic function, under these conditions
the bb suggests a silencing, or muting, of an object normally associated
with a singular violent burst. The stockpiling, hoarding, or colonizing of
the bbs, while creating enormous opticality, symbolically and logistically
counteracts the accumulation of ammunition used as weapons. My own accumulation
of bbs create actual conditions of scarcity, and in fact, today, ammunition
manufacturers cannot make enough to meet the existing demands in a post-911
era.
• Russia Stockpiles Diamonds, Awaiting the Return
of Demand
• Taliban
suspected of stockpiling 'missing' Afghan opium
• Stockpiling
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