Work Sample: Library of Art
Library of Art (8 books, 6"x9"x1" each)
“Library of Art” is an eight volume set of books: “Material,” “Process,” “Structure,” “Action,” “Situation,” “Duration,” and “Color,” each containing words or sentence fragments that can be combined to form an almost infinite number instructional artworks. An eighth book, “Participation” is left blank for anyone to record the works they create.
Library of Art: Process (book, 6"x9"x1")
The "Library of Art" looks at language as a magic trick: out of the immateriality of language you can make realities and then realities can collapse back into language. It unpacks the code of art by reducing it to elementary particles and rearranging them. Ultimately, the desire is to reveal all of art as an essentially open-source endeavor.
Library of Art: Process (book, 6"x9"x1")
Interior view of "Process," open to the word "misuse." The text of each book offers 150 options, one per page. In "Process" these include: enter, disintegrate, regulate, narrate, invert, enclose, melt, open, pierce, fill, invade, catch, propel, slice, soften, pile, bite, stain, varnish, prop, rub, apply, mend, describe, improve, oppose, decorate, serve, bake, identify, perform, break, release, tear, bury, reveal, pleat, interrogate, close, hang, seal, displace, medicate, burden, refine, cast, pin, carve, unravel, spray, aerate, bury, weave, dry, conquer, play, drill, glue, examine, catalog, julienne, loosen, heat, explode, gut, mash, mix, illuminate, polish, cook, make, rearrange, cut, popularize, edit, build, steal, stretch, use, empty, destroy, and more.