A Tool To Deceive and Slaughter - Caleb Larsen

you can see on blog.makezine.com a nice example of what a blog can do: there is suggestion to look further into what the artist is doing by posting and it happens some do. there are comments, what is more: feedback both ways bloggers to artist and artist to bloggers…

blog, blog blog (or blablabla spoken) as freedom put it.

the first text we get is a quote from here.

(ok, you might not agree but here i go with a quote from the promotional material of the piece:

Combining 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 perptually attempting to auction itself on eBay.

(i will do a little reshuffling, 1st i would get rid of the art historical contextualization at least i'd certainly not start with that!!! we can discuss this later.

It is a physical sculpture that is perpetually attempting to auction itself on eBay since this sculpture exists in eternal transactional flux of an art auction. (direct attention on what the thing is doing unless i am to admire another shiny black box.

note: i used "it" at the very beginning because i have great problems with the title. why? because deception and slaughter of whom or what? deceive the owner (owner to be or whom? the very same person who is to enter an unusual contractual agreement? let alone that me as a viewer should be perceived in the 1st place as a potential buyer! so affording me a position of innocence meaning there is an "i" that is only looking as art audience is false or not? is not the first and foremost aim of the piece to keep the auction going as the base condition of its existence? or it hopes to get into the big hall of fame of dead shiny black boxes?)

tricky, tricky nevertheless do look at it...