Art in an age of mechanical reproduction
November 24th, 2005
An artists’ collective known as Gelitin has just wrapped up a six-day exhibition in Chelsea. Six of them lived for the entire show in a giant wooden box, and items put in one end were duplicated crudely by the artists within. The original and the duplicate were taken out of a small door at the other end. No communication (besides the objects themselves) occurred with the box’s inhabitants.
Wish I’d been there! Link via NYTimes.com
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November 28th, 2005 at 8:08 pm
Just thought I should post a link to the work this blog post makes reference to since it is a great read in terms of Art History.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm