The Gift Shop
Lobby
August 27, 2009 – March 31, 2010
Moonlight Requisition
Debra Baxter, Margot Quan Knight, Matthew Offenbacher
Saturday, January 23rd until February 14
- Get a big sink from the GSA.
- Paint a WPA-esque documentary-historical-heroic painting.
- With homemade soap.
- Anti-bacterial communal hand-washing station with homemade soap.
- With a gum sculpture.
- Home-made gum: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Chewing-Gum.
- Sculpt soaps out of alabaster.
- Consider waterfall photography.
- Frozen waterfalls.
- Ice climbing.
- Ansel Adams: http://www.anseladams.com/.
- Gravity-fed rainwater collection system to run fountain using a large funnel on G.W.’s head and tubing and/or solar panel.
- Fake roses, sticky nostalgia.
- Make-out room.
- Petrified pompeii people and dogs.
- AIDS quilt: http://www.aidsquilt.org/.
- Love vs. ardor.
- Ardor, some definitions: a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause), intense feeling of love, feelings of great warmth and intensity.
- Artifice vs. Sheep. Sheep are real.
- No pretense to a significant event occurring.
Thank you: Jeffry Mitchell, Leo Saul Berk, Claude Zervas, Lorraine Parham, John Mutton, Joanna Baxter.
The Gift Shop Project #4 of 6
This is the fourth in a series of projects initiated and developed by Seattle artist Matthew Offenbacher which have turned the abandoned Henry Art Gallery gift shop into an autonomous, artist-powered, alternative exhibition space. Goals include: involving a diverse and interesting group of artists; developing means and methods which acknowledge the contingent nature of this particular site; generating new understandings of what an exhibition can be; and enjoying the pleasure and energy generated by working together. What makes water move uphill? Money! gift.shop.project@gmail.com.