Friday 14 May 2010

when you are going around in circles


A Tool To Deceive And Slaughter by Caleb Larsen combines Robert Morris’ Box With the Sound of Its Own Making with Baudrillard’s writing on the art auction. This sculpture exists in eternal transactional flux. It is a physical sculpture that is perpetually attempting to auction itself on eBay.

Every ten minutes the black box pings a server on the internet via the ethernet connection to check if it is for sale on the eBay. If its auction has ended or it has sold, it automatically creates a new auction of itself. If a person buys it on eBay, the current owner is required to send it to the new owner. The new owner must then plug it into ethernet, and the cycle repeats itself.

Follow the
current auction
Buy or download (free) the exhibition catalogue; The Value of Nothing

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