L'état de l'art de l'Art: Fighting the Highly Ridiculous Art Market

Aug 30, 2010

Fighting the Highly Ridiculous Art Market

A Sculpture That Perpetually Sells Itself On eBay

Artist Caleb Larsen has created an art sculpture which, when connected to the Internet, perpetually attempts to sell itself on eBay.

"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 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." laughingsquid.com

Art is in the hands of merchants.

Totally.

Artists live in a fourth-world economy pattern with absolutely no solidarity, no union, no protection, no rules.

Marketing and/ or business education do not belong to art schools' teaching. Never!

Nobody cares of course.

This project makes a dent in that state of fact, proving this unacceptable situation can be fought.

Please support it!

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ART AND MONEY

Art and Money / L'Art et l'Argent
The fields, mods, ways of expression, new media, have raised and evolved a lot.
Curiously the references are still those of painting and sculpture.
The reference to static objects exposed free of charge remains a majority.
The polemic around the P2P (I will not enter this debate here) has had, at least, the merit to enlight an obviousness: need for remunerating people who create.
Any form of creation relies on the existence of a market with a production budget upstream and financial repercussions downstream.
This elementary principle which governs, de facto, any form of activity, does not apply to arts…

Artists have the right to live too ( yes Sir!)
Then they have to self produce, finance and manage their production and then, aftermath, find some market issues.
Contrary to other forms of expression, they dont get financial support whether from art galleries (except for rare exceptions) or other structures and then the public get access to their works for free (finding it normal) and no one cares about the situation…

New fields/ ways of expression have raised which are also confronted with this difficulty.

I will be glad to debate this matter here…