Okwui Enwezor Graciously Guide Us
This is a large commercial sign on a pine trestle. It is about 3 metres high and 10 metres long. Part of the Great Trading Project is a conflation of advanced industrial economics with old fashioned trade and barter. Okwui Enwezor Graciously Guide Us is a combination of Mr Enwezor's name with a litany. Litanies are particular prayer forms in Abrahamic traditions directed to saints and people from our past. Note: in the background are 3 soundboards that are activated by a motion sensor. The soundboards play the Chant of the Art Review Power 100. (please see video of the Power 100 below)
The Great Goat Milking at Beatrix Ruf Protect Us (also Known as Hans Ulrich Obrist Hear Us and Okwui Enwezor Guide Us)
A goat comes to the gallery with a farmer. The goat and gallery visitors interact with the art installation. The goat is milked by the farmer. The installation includes chalkboards, a large sign, and a series of drawings and ephemera.
The Mixing of Milk and Honey (Part of the Trading Project)
One of the performance elements is the mixing of goats milk and honey. This takes place after the goat is milked and the honey is rendered.
The Trading Project : Goat Milking Part
The Great Goat Milking is part of The Trading Project. A Goat and a Farmer are invited to the place. The goat is milked. The milk is traded for other commodities. Then other commodities are traded ... etc.
The Great Trading Project: Those Who Have Helped Me; Those Who Have Wronged Me; and Those in Whom I Still Hold Hope.
The Great Trading Project is a project about longing. The project includes lists on chalkboards that describe those who have helped me, those who have wronged me and those in whom I still hold hope. As a trope it continues the transactional nature of the project.
The Power 100 in Georgian Chant (a 55 second excerpt) - part of the Great Trading Project.
The Power 100 in Georgian Chant (a 55 second excerpt) is a chant of all the names on the Art Review Power 100 List in the Georgian tradition. I commissioned this work from Alan Gasser and Emma Whitla.
The Story of the Great Trading Project (part 1 of 3)
Part of the Great Trading Project is a series of drawings that explain how I got to where I am and how the trading work began. The project is part intstallation and part performance.
Bees and Honey (Part of the Great Trading Project)
The Great Trading project is an installation and performance project. Part of the project is a series of commodity trades. Goats, whale blubber, milk, honey, timber, and crude oil are possible trades.
A small drawing from the Great Trading Project (Ivory)
This is a small drawing from the Great Trading Project. I show a few drawings and documents of proposed and actual trades alongside a large sign, chalkboards and other ephemera as part of the installation and performance work.
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