sleep late.

sleeplate:

Salary on Application: Saturday.

godfreyyouth:

• If a painting hangs in a gallery but no one is around to see it, is it “art”?
• Is all art participatory?
• What if no one is allowed to see it?
• Does the act of being excluded, consciously or…

i like your idea of art being autonomous to the point of it just being everything else. so while we’ve still got the gallery mindset hanging around, i think i’ve curated a decent collection. bids welcome.

two blood stains on my dad’s sweatshirt from picking me up when i skinned my knees learning to roller skate, 1989, blood, cotton/poly blend, metal zipper.     $20,000.

reading while talking and combining my words, c. 1986-2013, multiple performances with books, lyric inserts, wikipedia articles.     $8,000.

all of my math homework, c. 1998-2009, ink and graphite on paper.     $12,000.

my parents’ entire collection of plastic and plastic-handled cooking utensils melted in the oven, 2001, plastic, stainless steel, aluminum, wood.     $9,000.

paperback copy of fear and loathing in las vegas with passages highlighted by four or five teenage girls, 2000-2002, ink on paperback book.     $10,000.

maeby with her ear inside out, 2013, cat on couch.     $15,000.

godfreyyouth:

• If a painting hangs in a gallery but no one is around to see it, is it “art”?
• Is all art participatory?
• What if no one is allowed to see it?
• Does the act of being excluded, consciously or otherwise, constitute participation in the piece?
• Can the interactivity of an artwork exist…

maybe art can only be democratic if one decides something is “art” on one’s own and then tells no one else.