Hats Off...
...to Danielle Aubert
What I love about her work is the idea of collecting and collating information and stuff in a methodical and research like manner in some cases and pulling it all together to create an artwork.
For example:
$100 Exchange Project - Monetary value is somewhat
arbitrary, and in this project I wanted to see (a) how many discreet objects
I could buy for $100 without buying more than one object per store and
(b) what a $100 collection of objects purchased in New Haven would look
like. I spent $100 at various merchants around the New Haven and gathered
a collection of $100 worth of small things. After I finished spending
the $100 I determined that the average price for an item in the collection
was $1.15. I organized a stoop sale to sell the objects for either
$1.15 or to exchange them for an object of equal value, with the understanding
that the total value of my collection would always be $100. I recorded
each transaction with a receipt and created a book documenting the transformation
of the original $100 bill into a shifting collection of objects.
See also:
Notes on "Notes on the Index: Part 1", All the Clothes of a Woman (in Response to Hans-Peter Feldmann) and Every Waking Hour.
Love it! Feeling all inspired to go home and sort out my collection of STUFF and make something of it like i've planned to do for the last... ohhh.... 6 years!
Via manystuff
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