Never mind that Murakami
boutique at the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA. You only have nine more
days to buy a REPL1CA [W4TCH] from the Untitled
Project Store, which goes dark on November 18. Regularly priced at $850,
it can be yours for only $765! It’s a beautiful painted three-dimensional object
which, as the artist says, "is designed to occupy the physical and economic
space of a REAL replica luxury watch!"
Naturally, the store is being promoted by replica spam. Today’s is particularly
apropos, I think, given what’s going on in the commodity markets:
But, to avoid anticipating,
we will content ourselves here
with one more example relating to the commodity-form
itself. If commodities could speak, they would say this: our
use-value
may interest men, but it does not belong to us as objects. Our own
intercourse as commodities
proves it. We relate to each other merely as
exchange-values.
Karl Marx, Capital, Volume 1, Section 4
All of this is a project of Conrad
Bakker, an artist who loves to play with the detritus of our today’s electronic
existance: spam, eBay postcards, and the like. Often, the price of his work
is the most important part of the work itself; the spam, of course, is free.
Sign up for it yourself by sending an email to list@untitledprojects.com.