Carpentry 101 / The End...
Thursday, August 23, 2007
The artists invite you to one final night of Carpentry IOI. Gimberg and Nerf plan to get rid of all the bodies on August 29. Gates open at 18h00. The artists will be accepting IOU's for works and prices are negotiable. Many people participated in the IOI process which produced over 70 works and some great fires. Some are beautifully gold-leafed and others plain crude, but it is the thought that counts.An IOU is a note and acknowledgment of personal debt (from the phrase "I owe you" or "I owe unto") that is generally limited to casual usage between acquaintances. 1] Select a work, 2] make a reasonable offer, 3] negotiate, if successful 4] sign an IOU and 5] exchange it for the work. Simple. Only bodies will be available, left arms have been archived and right arms burnt.
"There is something beautiful about reversing the process of making. Of undoing something, of taking it apart. Of returning the object to what it was originally made of. And yet on returning it to the 'wood', one may be left with the little arms, remnants of the object for which there is no use, a kind of surplus. I do not mean the kind that brings profit, this is not the 'surplus value' of capitalist exchange. It is rather that which sort of escapes the contract of exchange. In reality our relations are so much defined by exchange, so completely rationalised that maybe this is not even possible. It is the little branch Dante plucked, and dropped in fear and left
behind, like a trace."
Bettina Malcomess, Carpentry IOI ISBN: 978-0-620-39272-3
Works on offer include Suresh Did It, 12 Iranian Apostles, Regretfully, Sloon Used a Chainsaw [Officer], Ed Young's Magenta, Lamprecht's Handiwork, Sacrament O, Emil Papp is a Hard Worker, Dan Halter is an Alien, Exterminate Aliens, Little Fires, The Whetted Axe, For the NYC Acorn Man, Hindley's Paint [and Wood], Plunkett, Barend De Wet, Rosa, Sometimes Good Artists do Bad Work, Lend a Hand [Max Wolpe], 33 Imberg was Such a Nice Kid, Bettina had a Hand in This, Nerf's Gimberg, Gimberg's Nerf, Charilaou can't be Blamed and Did Suzy Bell or James Webb Cut the Arm off the Gold Leafed Cross?
Reserve a work online via museumofcontemporaryart[at]gmail.com beforeAugust 28 and while you are online download their book Carpentry IOI at ArtHeat DownLoad
Final Act: August 29
Closes: August 31
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posted by Robert Sloon at 12:49 PM
7 Comments:
I found this passage in something I am reading and it made me think of Art Heat;
---"A Spanish art historian has uncovered the first use of modern art as a deliberate form or torture. Kandinsky and Klee, as well as Nunuel and Dali, were the inspiration behind a series of secret cells and torture chambers built in Barcelona in 1938; these so called ‘coloured cells’ were the work of the French anarchist Alphone Laurencic (a Slovene family name), whose ‘psychotechnic’ torture was his contribution to the fight against Franco’s forces. The cells were as inspired by ideas of geometric abstraction and surrealism as they were by avant-garde art theories on the psychological properties of colours. Beds were placed at a 20-degree angle, making them near impossible to sleep on, and the floors of the 6ft-by-3ft cells were scattered with bricks and other geometric blocks to prevent prisoners from walking backwards and forwards. The only option left to prisoners was staring at the walls, which were curved and covered with mind-altering patterns of cubes, squares, straight lines and spirals, which utilized tricks of colour, perspectives and scale to cause mental confusion and distress. Lighting effects even gave the impression that the dizzying patterns on the walls were moving. Laurencic preferred to use the colour green because, according to his theory of the psychological effects of various colours, it produced melancholy and sadness in prisoners."---
Who said art had no role to play in a revolution…
[congratulations on the carpentry 101 book. I enjoyed it, even the bits i found strange. that essay on the 'dark wood' is also beautifully seditious]
has anyone noticed that since ruth and simon got engaged, the anti-Ed blogging has stopped? coincidence?
no, I don't think so
Simon Njami?
no, gush
Damn! I think Simon Njami would have been a much better idea. He sounds like such a warm, accommodating kind of guy
carpentry 101 was beautiful. imberg and Nerf are fine curators as well as dedicated iconoclasts. unfortunately i missed the fud. very gud.
j not s
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