OLIVIER GROSSETÊTE & THE BÅTISSES SOEURS

City Hall, 2024

Phish Mondregreen Festival
Dover, Delaware
August 2024

CREATIVE DIRECTION & PRODUCTION BY TRIADIC

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Olivier Grossetête is a French artist who is known for his monumental constructions made entirely out of cardboard and tape. His projects are always participative, beginning with a local multi-day workshop to prepare the boxes - which he uses as ‘building blocks’, followed by a communal onsite construction of a monument. The artist is inspired by local architecture, and in the case of Mondegreen, Grossetête took inspiration from Baltimore City Hall to create this unique site specific work. ‘City Hall’ is made up of 1,850 boxes, stands over 80 feet high, and weighs nearly 2 tons.

An inauguration took place once the structure was built on the first day of the festival. The final stage of the piece was a group tear-down and ‘demolition’ of the structure, which Mondegreeners were invited to witness and partake in on Sunday. Since 2000, Grossetête had built his Participative Monumental Constructions in over 300 public arenas across five continents with thousands of participants.