"A curated project [by Ben Kinmont, originally at Printed Matter in 1996] 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."
"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."
See images at: http://www.benkinmont.com/
Posted by delpesco at January 8, 2005 02:21 PM