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The Most Realistic Alien

What
The Most Realistic Alien: a hundred-year artwork made of two instructions, "Draw an alien. Make it realistic.", answered by children and grown-ups around the world. Every alien is kept, numbered and credited.
The register
92 aliens on the register.
The label
Each alien is shown with its label: its name, or “Untitled” · by the artist's first name and last-name initial, and age · city, country, year. For example: Untitled · by Kodai N., 11 · Tokyo, Japan, 2012.
Who
Initiated by Ole Ukena. Drawn by all of us. A CRE8 Foundation project.
Since
CRE8 Foundation, since 2008. The Most Realistic Alien: first in Berlin in 2009, at Spielraum Gallery.
Where
Tables in Berlin, Udaipur, Bogotá, Barú, Barcelona, Rishikesh and Tokyo, and in Germany and Indonesia, 2009–2012. The Thaillywood residency in Thailand, 2012. CRE8's work at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, "Connected Creativity", January 2013.
Next
The Most Realistic Alien · 2027–2126: one book each year and a growing archive. Vol. 1, the 2027 edition, is planned for 31 December 2027.
The goal
One million aliens.
  1. 2008CRE8 Foundation
  2. 2009First in Berlin, at Spielraum Gallery
  3. 2009–2012Tables in Berlin, Udaipur, Bogotá, Barú, Barcelona, Rishikesh and Tokyo, and in Germany and Indonesia
  4. 2012The Thaillywood residency in Thailand
  5. January 2013Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, "Connected Creativity"
  1. 31 December 2027Vol. 1, the 2027 edition (planned)
  2. 2027–2126One book each year and a growing archive

Thaillywood, Chonburi, Thailand, 2012

A man on a ladder hanging framed drawings on a white wall covered with aliens, Thaillywood
Thaillywood, Chonburi, Thailand, 2012
The installation with no one in it: a photo wall, the wall of aliens at the back, a free-standing white wall and a plinth, Thaillywood
Thaillywood, Chonburi, Thailand, 2012
The whole wall of framed alien drawings, a stepladder in front of it, Thaillywood
Thaillywood, Chonburi, Thailand, 2012

In one line

For 100 years, everyone on Earth is invited to draw how they imagine an alien, and every answer is kept.

How Earth imagines aliens. 2027–2126.

A hundred years

Images

Every drawing is shown whole, with its credit. If there is no room for the credit, there is no room for the drawing. Press images on request.

The wordmark, type only, white on black · The Collection

Contact

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A man on a ladder hanging framed drawings on a white wall covered with aliens, Thaillywood
Thaillywood, Chonburi, Thailand, 2012CRE8 archive
The whole wall of framed alien drawings, a stepladder in front of it, Thaillywood
Thaillywood, Chonburi, Thailand, 2012CRE8 archive
The Most Realistic Alien, Vol. 1: a white cloth book with saffron edges and a saffron ribbon; on its cover drawing No. 2, Kodai N., 11, Tokyo 2012
Vol. 1 · planned for 31 December 2027
Vol. 1 open at its title spread: the two instructions on the left; on the right the name, 2027–2126, Year 1 of 100, Vol. 1 · 2027
Vol. 1 · planned for 31 December 2027
Untitled, by Kodai N., 11, drawn in Tokyo, Japan, 2012

Untitled

by Kodai N., 11

Tokyo, Japan, 2012

Imagined: A white gallery with one row of sixteen framed drawings
ImaginedOne row, sixteen drawings from the Collection.
The wordmark, type only, white on black
The wordmark, type only, white on black