Tickets To The Sunset
- Hacked social network to coerce Ticketmaster to give me a promoter account
and book a tour for the Sun.
- Participants could go to Ticketweb and purchase tickets for a sunset of
their choosing around the country. You'd input your credit card number and
weeks later you'd receive a ticket printed by the ticketmaster company.
- Redefinition of Sun/set as found art. Thomas Pynchon, the Clash, Don Delillo,
Duchamp, Dan Flavin, James Turrell
- Commodification of nature/beauty, Transaction art, the Selling of that which
is already owned.(Coyle and Sharpe, bottled water, oxygen bars, radio airwaves,
selling a soul or one's blackness on eBay, stars, nature CDs, human scents.
Hal Foster: In Spectacle, even alienation isturned into an imageforthe alienated
to consume.
- Redefinition of beauty via photoshop (airbrushed models). Critical Art Ensemble:
lowest common denominator of genetic engineering for food - everything needs
to have a consistent taste in order to sell. Look is more important (spectacle).
- Tour posters made by Jay Ryan.
- Digital Sound recording by Steve Albini, up on iTunes, Napster, etc. (Digital
distribution methods).
- Tried to get event insurance.
- Promotion and interviews.
- Sold merchandise (t-shirts,buttons, posters) at Champaign event coinciding
with MFA show. Design based upon hyperreal images; again Foster commenting
on Baudrillard's loss of real and fetishization of era b4 that loss i.e.nazi/fascism
period.
- Culture-Jamming - Barbie Liberation Organization. Joseph Heath and Andrew
Potter - does culture-jamming work?
