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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Arts / ??!! / Theater Arbitrary Art Grant #2: A Protest at On the Boards

Posted by Brendan Kiley on Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:45 AM

Greg Lundgren is a busy one. He of the Hideout, the cast-glass headstones, PDL, a Genius Award, and probably lots of secret, mad-scientist projects nobody knows about yet, has announced the second of his arbitrary art grants.

Lundgren's Vital 5 productions is handing out $500 grants—via a process he calls "Dada Economics"—for completed projects. The first assignment: Build a sculpture in a shopping cart, using materials from the shopping cart's store.

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Those who made sculptures had their names, written on slips of paper, dropped on one end of a grocery-store aisle. A representative of Vital 5 dropped a raw egg on the other end. An electric leaf blower shoved the names towards the egg, and the first one that stuck got $500. (See the video here.)

The next arbitrary art grant will happen this Friday—a protest at On the Boards, against the first showing of their Northwest New Works festival.

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The questions: How many people will show up? How will they protest? How does On the Boards feel about this? And, most importantly, by what mechanism of "dada economics" will Lundgren select the winner?

Show up, walk around On the Boards with a picket sign for an hour, and you might win $500.

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COMTE 1
Gee, I dunno. You gotta think up a catchy slogan, put it on some cardboard, make a sign out of it, schlep it all the way over to lower QA and then "actively protest" by, I guess, walking around outside OTB for awhile.

That all sounds like an awful lot of WORK, which would seem to run completely counter to the mission of a group calling itself "Artists for a WORK FREE America".

I think I'll pass on this one...
Posted by COMTE http://www.chriscomte.com on June 3, 2009 at 10:01 AM
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WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF

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"WTF," by
Posted by PC on June 3, 2009 at 10:03 AM
Greg 3
PERFORMANCE
"ART" IS FOR
WANKERS

P.S. GIVE
ME $500 PLZ
Posted by Greg on June 3, 2009 at 10:15 AM
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We will be there and we will bring it.
Posted by Helsinki http://www.helsinkisyndrome.org on June 3, 2009 at 10:16 AM
yelahneb 5
ugh. idle hands, part #whatever.
Posted by yelahneb http://www.strangebutharmless.com on June 3, 2009 at 10:35 AM
MadDog 6
Mad Dog is gonna take this one!
Posted by MadDog on June 3, 2009 at 10:53 AM
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I will be launching a counter-protest, consisting of ancient mime routines.
Posted by Holzfallen on June 3, 2009 at 2:17 PM

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