Art Project: Dispersal: 2016-17
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Project Description: Participatory Project
Over the course of 2016, I gave away to supporters of my career, over 30 works of art, arranging a meeting, a conversation, and sending each person off with a labeled, packaged artwork. I wanted to flip things around and see: what would it feel like to release, share, and clear my creative space of it's gems? Dispersal raids the sacred attributes of the artist: Her inventory of salable works. This sacred asset of the professional artist, the inventory of unsold work, is also a serious burden of storage and organization. Dispersal reverses both the traditional attitude and the goal of the artist/patron relationship. Instead of carefully storing the work like a hope chest for future grandeur, fame or monetary gain, waiting to be found and adored, the project clears and shares all but an essential, pared down 'estate' of pieces with those most invested in and valuing of the work. In the process, the economy of conventional artworld transaction, the heirarchy of boons and granters of boons, is also modified. |
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