news & blues
hello. it is september. here are some ideas.
- two 10 by 10 ft drawings of tumors, stippled, facing one another on opposing walls, one labeled ‘bad,’ one labeled ‘not bad.’
- water in rectangular bottles of primary colors, labeled “de stijled water”
- five oversized gumball machines set next to one another: one is to house containers of 10mg each methylone ((±)-2-methylamino-1-(3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl)propan-1-one) placed inside of the kind of two-piece plastic balls that have “prizes” in gumball machines at supermarkets, arcades, etc. the face of the methylone gumball machine is to be labeled “unscheduled, > 99% pure” and equipped with a lock on it so as not to accept coins; in another, containers of 10mg MDMA, with the machine labeled “scheduled, purity unknown”; in another, 10mg O-Desmethyltramadol (3-[2-(1-Amino-1-methylethyl)-1-hydroxycyclohexyl]phenol) and labeled “unscheduled, >99% pure”; in another, 10mg raw opium, labeled “scheduled, purity unknown”; the fifth is to house containers of a powder made from blending all 50 some odd pages of the torture memos as signed by berkeley law professor john yoo, labeled “unscheduled, impure” and is to be unlocked and accepting of coins. when the installation has run its course, the $5 or so worth of coins are to be donated to pfc. bradley manning’s defense fund.
- repaint a portrait of marie antoinette, except from behind her, so as to showcase versailles’ interior. get a grant to visit versailles to do this.
- print bumperstickers that read “opinion”
- pick every lock on the case enclosing the HDTV displaying work in kroeber’s main entrance (which was stolen last year and replaced) and attach a new input source so that the TV plays a clip from le temp du loup in a loop, specifically the last two lines at the end of the film: “It’s enough that you really wanted it. I’ll tell everyone how brave you are” as a big fuck you to former and would be thieves. leave locks unhinged.