Artwatch, part somethingorother of lots
Apr. 11th, 2005 04:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mirrorshardTomoko Takahashi's installation, My Play-station, at the Serpentine Gallery, consisted of, well, random Stuff. Household objects salvaged from skips. Now it's been demolished, with members of the public coming to take the Stuff away.
But the Serpentine staff were worried some might profit from it. So, all the collectors left with a flyer.
I think that's a rather dubious assertion - surely the point of the whole exercise is art? Art found, art assembled, art viewed, art interacted with, art taken away and enjoyed. I'm reluctant, very reluctant, to say that even the curator of a major art gallery gets to say definitively that a given object, especially one touched by an artist, is Not Art.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1456592,00.html?gusrc=rss
But the Serpentine staff were worried some might profit from it. So, all the collectors left with a flyer.
"Please note that these objects are not works of art - they are gifts from the artist to you and souvenirs from her commission," it read.
I think that's a rather dubious assertion - surely the point of the whole exercise is art? Art found, art assembled, art viewed, art interacted with, art taken away and enjoyed. I'm reluctant, very reluctant, to say that even the curator of a major art gallery gets to say definitively that a given object, especially one touched by an artist, is Not Art.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1456592,00.html?gusrc=rss
