2007 | guerilla performance, web project, gallery installation

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On Sunday April 1st 2007, at 11am, Colonel K and his Smellorist army launched the first of many attacks on public art galleries around the world.

For this project Ford took on the guise of Colonel K (Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now, leading his troops to certain doom), distributed flyers and set up a MySpace networking page to publicise his 'Smellorism' movement. Over a few months Colonel K managed to recruit a Smellorist army dedicated to his cause. The first (and so far only) mission at Tate Modern was cut short due to police intervention.



Tate Modern Smellorist Attack 1st April, 2007, stink bomb floor plan with timings

Tate Modern Smellorist Attack 1st April, 2007, Lambda print mounted onto MDF, 24 x 30"
GALLERY INSTALLATION OF THE WORK:


Documented at Goldsmiths, London, July 2007
With the floor of the installation space booby trapped with stink-bomb-land-mines, it is hoped that gallery goers will be holding their nose and pulling faces like the visitors of the Tate Modern in the photographs on show.