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Steal This Show |
| The artist feature now includes CONFESSIONS from
those lucky enough to nab a piece!!! |
Steal This Show Update: February
6, 2001
Well its all over!!
A huge surge of thrifty art consumers descended
on the show, and were let in early out of fear of having the walls
of Vox Populi stripped of all its artwork. According to sources
at Dissentia, intricately plotted schemes, and ingenious spy-like
cunning were not the chosen methodology of the friendly mob, who
chose more guerilla-like tactics - and simply grabbed whatever they
could get their hands on, clearing the space in about five minutes.
The greed for free art even pushed some so far as to commit pre-show
thefts and inside jobs. Of course sometimes ideas can go to far
- The surveillance camera video tape, which as part of the project
held evidence of the perpetrators and their crimes of passion -
WAS STOLEN. (HA HA - you artsy people have such a grasp on irony)
- Of course Dissentia welcomes squealers to contact their
tipline
to bring this smirking villain to justice
- or just get the tape back. In the absence of the video, however,
I'm told you can get a good idea of what the event was like by simply
remembering the smash and grab fun those folks in LA had looting
the city a few years back. Stay tuned to Dissentia
and this Artist Feature for continual updates
as the postcards on the back of the stolen artworks are sent back,
and the confessions of the thieves are posted. -
By the way if you happened to nab InLiquid
artist Chris
Vecchio's piece "Innocent?Guilty!",
you may want to visit his page on EBay,
because it seems the only way you're going to be able to get that
nasty little ALARM Chris installed to shut up, is to purchase his
services in disarming it. |
AN EVENT WHERE NO ONE CAN
COMPLAIN ABOUT THE HIGH PRICE OF ART
Opening
February 2, 2000 at Vox
Populi Gallery,141 N 2nd Street
in Philadelphia, and running through February 23rd.
If imitation is a form of flattery, than
theft must surely be the highest. As a sure hangover cure for the
post -consumerist holiday frenzy, Dissentia
Curatorial Services presents
its newest exhibition/event, 'Steal this Show' on February
2nd at Vox Populi Gallery. There will be nothing here that you can
buy, but the art can easily be procured by anyone with the nerve
and skill to surreptitiously take it. Dissentia hopes that the pieces
will be thefted only by those who truly covet them and are able
to display them.
What does
Dissentia want in return? Only that
the thieves mail the stamped postcard affixed to the back of their
newest acquisition and confess, "Why did you steal this piece of
art?" They don't even need to sign their name. But they will be
encouraged to use their creativity and honesty, as their confessions
will be posted on the Dissentia website along with an image of the
work now in their possession.
Their
act of theft may appear there on the website, as Dissentia will
stream a video from a surveillance camera that records the opening
night gala event. This tape will also run at the gallery exhibition,
which will continue even as the physical artworks disappear. Anyone
visiting Vox Populi after the opening will see black and white images
of the artwork, stamped 'stolen' in red adhered to the walls where
original pieces once were.
"Steal
this Show" continues the spirit of Dissentia's past projects,
which seek to present work in unusual yet familiar locations that
challenge audiences to experience art in a new way. This exhibit
further explores one of Dissentia's founding principals - that art
should be a democratic experience; everyone should have access to
it and be able to own it. "'Steal
this Show' was a way for us to push that envelope," said Chris
Wilson. "We wanted to make it possible for everyone to acquire works
of art, to live with them and learn of their real value." |
Click The Dissentia
Icon To See whats up for thieving
Some of the artwork is not represented here- to see every piece
of work go to the Dissentia website at WWW.DISSENTIA.COM |
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