The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, 1998

The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis commissioned AVL to make a mobile art lab: a youth centre on wheels that could bring the good word of art and culture to schools and people from poorer neighbourhoods throughout the state of Minnesota. AVL took on the task, with one condition: to add a darker side to the museum's good intentions. The result was The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, a triptych structure composed of a trailer, a house and an extension. The good things are concentrated in the trailer, with its children-friendly activity areas for making art, music and theatre on the road. After touring the state, the trailer can come back to the museum's Sculpture Park where it has a permanent place, docked into the Black House. Bad things live in the house; its imaginary ideal dweller is the Una Bomber, a prototype terrorist who survived alone in the forest and recycled materials to manufacture his bombs.

Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis USA