@misc{6692ea4ec6d44e8fb07e455de38d77e6,
title = "Dowiyogo's Ancient Coral Coffee Table",
author = "Nicholas Mangan",
note = "Subsequently exhibited in: 'Living in the Ruins of the Twentieth Century', 16 April 2013 to 16 May 2013, UTS Gallery, Sydney NSW Australia. This project attempts to enter into the history of the island Republic of Nauru by completing a proposition put forward by the former president Bernhard Dowiyogo. Lying on his death bed in a Washington D.C hospital in 2003, at the time of Nauru's imminent bankruptcy, Dowigyogo was quoted by an American reporter as saying that his plan to save Nauru's ailing economy was to turn the remaining coral rock on the island into ancient coffee coral tables. These were to be sold on the US market. Dowiyogo passed away before his project could be realized. The rock used in Dowiyogo's Ancient Coral Coffee Table was sourced from Melbourne, Australia; the exact coral limestone pinnacles which had been shipped from Nauru during its 1970s hey-day. The pinnacles were installed in the forecourt of the high-rise Nauru House, which the country had built with money made from the strip-mining and selling of their island's nutrient rich interior to western interests. Agriculture - phosphate. The pinnacles were erected as a symbol of prosperity, but in 2004 when Nauru House was sold to pay off the island's national debt, they were torn from their podiums and removed from the site. By locating and purchasing a section of the pinnacles from the private owner who came to possess them, a homage to Dowiyogo's project and the dying island itself was completed.; Regimes of Value ; Conference date: 07-03-2013 Through 07-04-2013",
year = "2013",
language = "English",
publisher = "The Substation",
address = "Australia",
}