Art Fair Fun

Art Fair Fun Digital prints, balloons, video, cooler, used cups, paper, newspaper, flooring, bronze, press pass.
2007.

Art Fair Fun was designed as a follow-up to the Lemonade Stand that explicitly compares the failed Art Chicago with the booming Art Basel Miami Beach. To infiltrate Art Basel Miami I took on the persona of an art reporter, receiving a press pass from my school newspaper, Fnewsmagazine. With this flimsy excuse for credentials I was able to gain VIP access to the opening events, lectures, tours etc. When gathering information from dealers the conversations would be lively until they asked me which publication I wrote for. I usually replied, "Fnewsmagazine my school newspaper." The nice thing about the size of the artworld at that time is that it is too big for people to assume that you're not important, until you can prove it. It's like a positive anonymity.

Upon my return I published an article about the fair, which unexpectedly launched the writing portion of my practice. Read the article here. Other items included in the exhibition were my press pass which I had bronzed, a piece of flooring from Art Chicago and emphemera from The Lemonade Stand. Several videos were also included; a projection of ABMB's expanse, footage from Peaches opening concert on the beach and a video of me "getting into character".