Mark Leckey‘s ‘GreenScreenRefrigerator’ (2010)
A black Samsung Bottom Freezer Refrigerator was filmed live in front of an audience at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise. The Fridge stood on a green screen infinity cyc while Leckey coaxed it into revealing its thoughts and actions.
Here is a link to the blog fuckyeahinternetfridge to keep you up to date on the latest amazing usb-controlled fridges.
K Foundation, ‘K Foundation burn a million Quid’ (1994)
On the 23rd August 1994, in a boathouse on the Scottish island of Jura, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, formerly known as the most succesful British 90s pop group the KLF (which stands for Kopyright Liberation Front and also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords and other names), then known as the K Foundation, incinerated £1,000,000 in cash. This money represented the bulk of the K Foundation’s funds, earned as the KLF.
The burning was witnessed by an old friend of Drummond’s, freelance journalist Jim Reid, who subsequently wrote an article about the ceremony for The Observer. It was filmed on Super 8 by their friend Gimpo. Reid admitted to first feeling shock and guilt about the burning, which quickly turned to boredom. The money took well over an hour to burn as Drummond and Cauty fed £50 notes into the fire. Drummond later said that only about £900,000 of the money was actually burnt – the rest flew straight up the chimney. The press reported that an islander handed £1,500 into the police; the money had not been claimed and would be returned to the finder.
Click here for Reid’s article on the burning and its aftermath.
‘Death and taxes’ by Steven Emmanuel
The work is a column made of one penny coins in an old WWII-bunker.
‘The national dinner tour’ by Marc Horowitz
Horowitz was working as a photo assistant for Crate & Barrel. While on set one day, he wrote “dinner w/ marc 510-872-7326,” his name and cell phone, on a dry erase board featured in a desk product shot (above picture). A few months later, the catalog, containing his dinner invitation, was printed and sent to millions of people. Horowitz eventually received over 30,000 calls from people wanting to dine with him. As a result, he traveled the USA in a tiny RV for a year dining with strangers.
Walead Beshty, »Fedex® Kraft Box ©2005 FEDEX 330504 REV 10/05 CC, Fedex International 2-Day, Los Angeles-Brussels« (2008)
Mike Ruiz, ‘Extended Bliss’ (2010)
The default Windows XP wallpaper, Bliss, with white area added to the sides, then put through content-aware fill.
‘Extended Aurora’ (2010)
The Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard wallpaper, Aurora, with white area added to the sides of the image and then put through content-aware fill.
And, remember this post from a while ago…?
Oskar Dawicki, ‘I’m sorry’ (2010)
Live in front of the audience Dawicki reads a text explaining he’s sorry for the failed performance he’s giving. Finally, to make up for wasting the audience’s time and the curator’s chance of putting on a good show, he hands out sweets while a taperecorder plays the sound of him crying and once more apologizing.
A performance seen in Rotterdam during Witte de With’s performance cycle ‘Let us compare mythologies’. Pictures by Peter Rakossy.
More fine work by Dawicki downstairs….
Tomo Savic´-Gecan
Tomo Savic-Gecan, untitled (2007)