WINTER 2020 - HOW DOES ONE APPROACH THE WORK OF AN ARTIST WHOSE PRINCIPLE MODE OF PRODUCTION IS BOUND UP WITH THE WORK’S DESTRUCTION? - SOLD OUT

THE CONSTRUCTION OF A WORK AS THE ‘UNBUILDING’ OF AN OBJECT? (MATTA-CLARK’S SOUNDING OF A CATACHRESIS OF UNCERTAINTY THAT RIPPLES THROUGH EXISTING COMPLACENCY REGARDING ART’S ONTOLOGICAL SECURITY)

NEWS: ‘SACRIFICIAL ECONOMY: 1982-2008’: ARTIST APPEARS FOR INTERVIEW AS ASHES IN AN URN (AFTER INTERNALIZING MATTA-CLARK’S ‘ECONOMY OF SACRIFICE’, CHANGING THEIR NAME TO ‘SACRIFICIAL ECONOMY’, AND HAVING THEMSELVES BURIED, EXHUMED AND CREMATED IN PREPARATION FOR BEING INTERVIEWED ABOUT THE LOGIC STRUCTURING THEIR ARTISTIC PRACTISE

‘OUR GARBAGE HEAPS ARE SOARING AS THEY FILL UP WITH HISTORY’: MATTA-CLARK - A VISION OF FUTURITY AT ONCE FOUNDED UPON AND REDEFINED BY THE STOCKPILING OF HISTORICAL EVENTS?

THE MOST DIONYSIAC OF DANCERS; THE STERNIST ARCHITECTURAL CRITIC; A PUNSTER; ALLEGORIST; THE MOST INVENTIVE (OR, ALTERNATIVELY, HORRIBLE) OF COOKS; SPECULATOR; CHILD OF SURREALISM; BUDDHIST; WASTREL; MARXIST; RICH KID; SAVIOUR OF BUILDERS; INFINITE CHARMER; STUDENT OF GARBAGE; A PHYSICAL, LIFE-AFFIRMING FORCE; A CHERRY TREE, A CARIBBEAN ORANGE, A ROPE BRIDGE; A MAN WHOSE LIFE WAS MARKED BY SPLITTING, INTERSECTION, THE OFFICE BAROQUE, DESCENSION, DOORS, BRONX FLOORS, TRUNKS, SOHO FOOD, THE UNDERGROUND, FAKE ESTATES, CELLARS, EARTH, JACOB’S LADDER, SOCIAL SPACE, NON-PLACE, TIME, WINDOWS, CUTS, ILLNESS, GUILT AND LOSS

NEWS: TRASH TALKS: ART MEETS POLITICS (FROM THE GRAVE?)

NEWS: ANCIENT GREECE SEEKS $13 TRILLION FROM THE RENAISSANCE IN COMPENSATION FOR ‘THEFT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY’, AND REFUTES RENAISSANCE CLAIMS TO AUTHENTIC ‘REBIRTH’ OF ITS CULTURE, WHICH IT DESCRIBES AS ‘BOGUS’ AND ‘A PHANTASMATIC, TEMPORALLY MISGUIDED, WHOLESALE CULTURAL APPROPRIATION’

NEWS: THE PRESENT REFUSES TO RETURN ORPHANS BACK TO THE RENAISSANCE. IN A STATEMENT THE PRESENT SAID: ‘IF THEY WERE TO BE RETURNED TO THEIR ORIGINAL PLACE, THEY WOULD ONLY EXIST AS MUSEUM-PIECES WITHOUT MUSEUMS’

(‘I JUST KEPT FORGETTING TO CHECK DOWNSTAIRS’): A BLUNDER OF PREHISTORIC PROPORTIONS? - ’WE ARE GONNA GATOR GRIP’ - SNAPPY DEPARTURE FOR GALLERY DIRECTOR AFTER PUNNING DAMAGE CONTROL DEBACLE FOLLOWING LEAKED CONFESSION OF MEMBER OF STAFF AT ‘THE GASWORKS’, WHERE THE MYSTERY OF LOW VISITOR EXIT NUMBERS IS FINALLY SOLVED DURING FILMING OF DOCUMENTARY (‘GHASTLY GASOMETERS’) REVEALING THE FLOOR OF THE LOWER GROUND TANKS TO HAVE DISSOLVED, RE-ESTABLISHING A HABITAT FOR ITS FORMER INHABITANTS (FROM THE ALLIGATOR PARK PREVIOUSLY INSTALLED TO GIVE EXOTIC DISTINCTION THE SITE’S PREVIOUS £230 MILLION PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT, BUT WHICH HAD SINCE BEEN A PERMANENT EXHIBITION SPACE FOUNDED BY MARCEL DUCHAMP ESTATE DEDICATED TO HIS FAVOURITE PIECE OF MUSIC (4’33”)