Maria Lisogorskaya and Fran Edgerley of architecture and design collective Assemble were invited to stage an event at the Serpentine Pavilion earlier this month and responded with a performance that involved the restaging of a number of inauguration rites maintained by different cultures from around the world. Their session culminated in the ritualistic application of spray paint to the various props that they had used in the course of the afternoon. Unfortunately, rather a lot of paint ended up on the rocks on which Smiljan Radic's pavilion is constructed. Lisogorskaya and Edgerley duly found themselves on the receiving end of a flurry of irate messages from the Serpentine's co-director, Hans Ulrich Obrist, who assured them that professional cleaners were going to have to be brought in to remedy their vandalism of the structure, which has already been sold to the Hauser & Wirth contemporary art gallery for installation at its new base in Somerset.
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