Six Problematics For Artists & Their Work

2011
Designed for The Labour Of The Multitude? The Political Economy Of Social Creativity Conference at the Warsaw Free/Slow University

A poster announces a series of questions, making present the position of listening and inquiry as an invited member of the audience. Engagements to these questions shall proceed through a polyphonous text (forthcoming), based on the series of speeches and debates that play out in the conference, documenting the position of active listening / apprehension, without speaking.

Original Transfer of Belief in the Artist

2009
Edition of 250 custom gold-plated pins, Contract (3 X A4 white frames)

In response to a invitation for an exhibition dedicated to collectors where no financial exchange was possible, a contract was created (a modified version of Seth Siegelaubs’ 1971 contract “The artist’s reserved rights transfer and sale agreement”), wherein all financial exchange agreements were replaced with those pertaining to pure belief in the current and future works of the artist. An edition of 250 gold-plated pins were created as a take-away item for potential ‘collectors’, denoting their virtual agreement with the terms of the contract. The work directly addresses the currency of the artist-personality which is implied in any sale of work, but is never explicitly drawn up within the legal framework.

White House Redux

In response the the Storefront Architecture and Art competition to redesign the White House, I opted to look at the architecture of the Managerial Landscape, which is inherently extra-territorial by design (and Desire), to examine the structure within which affect is legislated. The recommendation of the report is the creation of a new department (alongside [...]

Manifesta 6.1, Dept III: Abschlussball/Contract of Discord

Published in IDEA Magazine, Romania Download as PDF Contract of Discord was a collective project with more than 20 of the pre-supposed participants of Dept. III of the canceled Manifesta 6 biennale scheduled for Nicosia, Cyprus. The canceling of the biennale transformed it’s initial intentions, becoming the first purely textual biennale, comprised of legal documents, [...]

Reading Group

Structures of Cohabitation: or the Death of Relational Aesthetics
Initiated by Michael Baers and Pia Fuchs (dt ID v. Patricia Reed)
At Program, Centre for Art and Architectural Collaborations, Berlin
Theme:
Structures of Cohabitation: Or the Death of Relational Aesthetics is a broad theme, which allows the group to trace through contemporary theory/literature the current plight of “community” as notion and actuality.

The Violence of Participation

Drawings contributed to the Installation / Publication of Markus Miessen & Ralf Pflugfelder for the Biennale de Lyon. 2007.

Publication: Lukas & Sternberg Press.

2 Drawings prepared (as Pia Fuchs (dt. ID von Patricia Reed) & Rose Berthier (Identité française de Patricia Reed) responding to the call for contributions responding to our “Spatial Perception of Europe.”

The Momental

6. Mai – 10. Juni, 2006 | Sparwasser HQ, Berlin Group Exhibition, lecture programme and workshops. The Momental Online “ Through all the changes ‘something’ remains – that something is the moment…no sociological or historical determination can adequately define this temporality…its wish is to reinstate discontinuity, grasping it in the very fabric of the lived.” [...]