seasons greetings
Snowballs for sale! What a great piece by David Hammons from 1983.
Bliz-aard Ball Sale, a performance piece in which David Hammons situates himself alongside street vendors in downtown Manhattan in order to sell snowballs which are priced according to size. This act serves both as a parody on commodity exchange and a commentary on the capitalistic nature of art fostered by art galleries, while putting a satirical premium on ‘whiteness’.
I just realized my mom made a similar performance piece statement about racial classification and ‘whiteness’ with her cotton snowballs for sale at 50 cents each year under our family Christmas tree… she’s so conceptual.
(via David Stark)
(via f-point)
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