Output |
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Title |
idonthaveyourmarbles |
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Type of output and brief description |
An international ongoing collaborative project operating within a pre-existing online economic framework (ebay), in which artefacts of questionable value are available for viewing / auction 10 days a month. |
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Your Contribution |
Artist and Co-curator |
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Repository ID |
1743 |
Publication date (if output is forthcoming) |
Ongoing since September |
Evaluation |
Significance: (100 words) http://shop.ebay.co.uk/idonthaveyourmarbles/m.html This project is available to a global audience, and is being implemented simultaneously from different sides of the world (UK and Korea). It has made over 40 sales to date in Europe and America. An invite is sent to an extensive mailing list every month. In March 2010 idonthaveyourmarbles was staged as a An online / offline exhibition with documentation of sold items is currently in development (maybe in a library); as is a publication. |
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Originality: (100 words) This project questions the importance of a priori knowledge for the experience of art; how art can become less dependent on structures that are so determining in terms of content, understanding and interpretation. Images of items engage with aesthetics beyond requirements for ebay. Items are placed in categories to which they relate but not directly, enabling them to rupture their own definition; a strategy further articulated through the descriptions of objects for sale. This is a collaborative project to which other artists are regularly invited to contribute artefacts and descriptions consistent with the project. |
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Rigour: (100 words) This work is exploring ideas of value and exchange, and the circulation and commodification of dematerialised labour. It’s concerned with the intersection of: found / References: Claes Oldenburg’s “The Store”; Rob Pruitt’s Flea Markets; Tracy Emin, Sarah Lucas, “The Shop”; Mark Fisher “Capitalist Realism” O Books, 2009. |
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