[rohrpost] Bid for the right to alter an artwork at SFMOMA

[KH Jeron]

http://publicwhitecube.com

Things are getting serious. On 13^th November, at 12 noon in San 
Francisco and 9 pm in Berlin, the first auction begins that could give 
you power over the 1^st Public White Cube. As from Thursday, you can bid 
for the right to manipulate an artwork in a museum. No museum attendant 
can stop you and no curator will dictate to you (unless, of course, you 
break the law - but you weren’t planning on that, anyway).

But before you can get down to work, beat all your fellow bidders, and 
send your desired change to us (immediately after the end of the auction 
on Sunday, please), two other individuals have already tampered with the 
art. 10lb Ape were pretty thorough at the opening performance. For 
hours, they sat in their absolutely not white cube, which is known in 
the museum unofficially and not terribly flatteringly as the 
“Club-House”: they held the door closed from inside and threw everything 
out of the window that they had hung up to decorate the interior. Or to 
put it more precisely, they threw things through flaps in the wall that 
were disguised as pictures. A broom flew out. Paper flew out. A clavinet 
was launched at the visitors. It was a fine spectacle - the audience was 
amused, and the artists were happy. In the SF MOMA, they set up the 
least pure White Cube that anyone can remember.

Now it’s your turn to have your say. Yesterday at Sotheby’s, someone bid 
21.362.500 for Yves Klein’s “Archisponge (RE 11)”. The PWC auction will 
be cheaper. Do what you want to do – in a museum. Show 10lb Ape that 
more can be done with a sculpture than just sitting in it and tidying 
up. As from Sunday, you too can be a museum artist.