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| The Materialization of Life into alternative economies | <<prev | list | next>> |
| A curated project with different people, this time from the art world, showing different notions of economy and distribution: Paula Hayes/Wild Friends for collaborative economy, Joseph Grigely for information economy, On Kawara for gift economy, Gordon Matta-Clark for business economy, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles for maintenance economy. My reasons were to offer another reading of Lippard's idea of conceptual art as a dematerialization of the art object and, instead, suggest that perhaps, for some, it was actually not so much about the art object but about life, about a materialization of life. |
| 1996.
Printed Matter Bookstore, NY. Paula gave away seed packets entitled “CATS
DIG GRASS;” Carol Goodden (Gordon’s collaborator) provided recipes
from the restaurant Food, which we gave away photocopies of; and Mierle
gave away copies of her Maintenance Manifesto from 1969. No archive. Exhibition
can be repeated.* *Exhibition was recreated in Ljubjana for the Moderna galerija/Museum of Modern Art during the exhibition “Worthless/Invaluable” curated by Carlos Basualdo. Also see catalytic text. |
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Exhibited as part of Worthless (Invaluable), Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2002
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On Kawara's Telegrams
Presented at Printed Matter, 12 April - 11 May 1996
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Photographs by Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Presented at Printed Matter, 12 April - 11 May 1996
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Paula Hayes - Translucent Image Advertisement for Wild Friends
Detail
Presented at Printed Matter, 12 April - 11 May 1996