roundabout dog [round-uh-bout dawg]

Posted: Wed, 2006-10-25 13:52 by micca

roundabout dog [round-uh-bout dawg]

Definition Non-professionally produced sculptural art in the form of a dog or other animal made from any material which, often concealed by the darkness of the night, is placed in a public place, preferably in a roundabout.

Background It all started with somebody smashing a dog to pieces, that is, not a living dog but a man-made one. A dog that was part of an art installation, an artistic dog if you may. It was the artist Stina Opitz who had been given the task to decorate one of the many roundabouts that had been built in the Tornby area in the outskirts of Linköping, Sweden. This means that somebody demolished the concrete dog made by Stina Opitz, an act which was given appropriate attention in the local papers. Some time therafter the installation got renewed attention since someone had replaced the smashed (and removed) original dog with a home-made wooden dog. It had rather long legs and was rather flat and ugly but quite encouraging in its own way. Shortly thereafter this wooden dog got a concrete bone to chew on and as time has passed various pieces of art have appeared both in this roundabout and others. The involved amateur artists apparently seem to see no limits as regards choice of material, quality, size or even type of animal. Dogs are also moved from one roundabout to another, and some are stolen or demolished. It is a dog’s life after all, isn’t it? The dogs give rise to everything from cheers to cranky comments on traffic safety. They have also made local bureaucrats and politicians on the cultural scene to threaten with confiscation and institutionalisation of these pieces of art and place them in one – by them – selected roundabout or even in the local museum, suggestions which have upset some of the artists.

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plaidshirly | Fri, 2010-06-25 14:27

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art-dogs plan in Japan

hoshino | Sun, 2007-08-26 06:46

Hello from Japan.

I found ROUNDABOUT DOGS on the magazine "MADAME FIGARO JAPON" few months ago and now do planning something like ROUNDABOUT DOGS in my town, Ichinomiya, Aichi (near NAGOYA). We will gather art-dogs and to play the open green area of the mid-town at Octover through November.

So we want to use some photos on the gallery here (and Swedesh page) to make our flyer and poster. May I use these photos for Japanese plan ?

Also we want to make small website of Japanese ROUNDABOUT DOGS and/or art-dogs to inform about this movement. We will be able to send you photos of dogs running, hopping, sitting on green area in my town.

We are the NPO to struggle about town problems through making events of arts, music and other contents or other activities. See our website http://www.shimin.org/. (shimin means citizen. sorry the webpage is written in Japanese.)

How do you think about this plan ? PC mail is also welcome to talk about our plan through the mail link left top of our homepage.

I have read your article for

slave2 | Tue, 2010-08-03 08:13

I have read your article for a several times and I was impressed by it! It was very interesting so I shared it with my friends. Hope they will like it too.
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Re: art-dogs plan in Japan

micca | Sun, 2007-08-26 22:13

Hi 8)

Let the art flow from participation to participation.
I sent an email too.

/husse

I have read your article for

slave2 | Wed, 2010-08-11 09:55

I have read your article for a several times and I was impressed by it! It was very interesting so I shared it with my friends. Hope

they will like it too.
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Roundabout dog Japan again!

hoshino | Wed, 2008-10-15 07:04

Hello from Japan.

We, NPO SHIMIN-REN ICHINOMIYA, carried the art-dogs event at Fall 2007 in Ichinomiya city, Aichi, Japan. We produced this event in the flow of roundabout dog, hrere.

There are 138 dogs on the green belt of the walking area in front of the ICHINONMIYA station to the shopping mall through roundabout. includes some small in-the-house accessory dogs to the large out-the-house dog made by kid's slide.

There are pedegree of 138 dogs on the www.roundaboutdog.jp page.　Sorry not to upload those photos to here.

http://www.138dogs.net/

English page
http://www.138dogs.net/04.html

pedegree page of 2007
http://www.138dogs.net/138dogs_album/index.html

Now we carry "art dogs 138 vol.2" from 25th Oct to 15th NOv. 2008 at the same place, around Ichinomiya station.
We will flow 138 dogs in our town, our small green belt of my town.

....138 means.... the name of our town ICHINOMIYA includes ICHI, MI and YA. ICHI means 1, MI means 3, YA means 8 in Japanese. So ICHINOMIYA is 138.

Great thanks for roundabout dog and roundabotudog-person in Sweden!

Hiroshi Hoshino

Dogs are also moved from one roundabout to another, and some are

pupluv | Fri, 2007-08-24 21:42

"Dogs are also moved from one roundabout to another, and some are stolen or demolished. It is a dog’s life after all, isn’t it?"

BTW, in American English, the idiom "a dog's life" means exactly the opposite of what is does in UK English. In UK English, of course, it means a very hard life. In US English, the same idiom means a very pampered, pleasurable life.

For example: "She was already living a dog's life. She had two owners who loved her, a beautiful home and a frisky little brother named Tucker to play with in her large yard. She had it made." http://www.georgetownnews.com/articles/2007/08/15/news/news02.txt

I've noted that ESL classes only teach the UK meaning, which must cause some confusion when their students get to the USA.