What is Citizenship?

An urban reclaimation project that transforms void spaces from social refuse into political refuge, the NYC Citizen project incorporates formal and informal tagging, social media soapboxes to explore the limits of our citizenship.  

NYC Citizen Government

Open letter to US Copyright Office

What is Citizenship? Sharing ideas? What about when advertising steals artist's ideas to sell their products?  Is Hollywood a giant advertisement? Where should the lines be drawn? Since artists are the Research & Development department for culture, our citizenship is founded in social practice or open sharing.  Where is authenticity and authorship?  

I decided to ask the experts at the US Copyright Office with an image title registration and letter.

Is it art, architecture, planning, melancholy or opposable thumbs? It is clear that we enjoy making things in our likeness. Are humans capable of abstract thought or is everything anthropomorphic? If images reveal truths, then let inanimate objects speak.

Food: We are what we eat

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My friends are rubbing

off on me.  Their habits are shards of persuasion which I may sometimes shave off, or mask on.  I wonder how their news is good news, and why I vapidly follow their likeness, but don't touch? It is my 98 lb frail gaze.  If friends are the family you choose, why not take their genetic characteristics as well as their networks?

 They are all my "partners", as I cannot maintain relations with just one. I am polyamicous, but as most social networks prove- love alone won't pay the bills.  I wish I was a little bit taller, or a baller, or a manner, or a painter. Short of an Acquaintance Commune, I must search for something beyond those chance digital trysts, and paint the town skype-colored or small and brown.  Meanwhile, I Meme...

What Memes Are

Memes are identity prototypes.

Memes are distopian realities. 

Memes are one-trick ponies.

Memes are two-dimensional. 

Memes are punchlines.

What Memes Do

Memes can be political couch potatoes.

Memes marry absurd humor with pixelated reality.

What Memes Have

Power and Influence 

What Artists Are

Artists are the R&D department for consumer culture.

Artists are society's identity prototypes. 

What Artists Do

Artists ask questions of society.

What This Is

An edition of portrait paintings available for installation as a spatial apparatus to the internet.

Poppelgangers

ErSaltz

Being Brian

Wiley Ways

Orlan Magic

[1] Rosemarie Trockel "Less Sauvage than Others" Sculpture Project Munster Aaseeufer Lake, 2007 (art net image)

[2] "Gewohnheitstier 5 (creature of habit)", 1996, bronze 90x120x16cm 

Rubix Cubes of video, leaves, and yarn

The well-oiled creature of habit may view Rosemarie Trockel's work as simply the white cube industrial process of political, psychological, and sexually gendered narratives, but serendipity is in the joy of the twisted, color-pixelations of her multi-faceted Rubix Cube.  

The Garden Problem

 My own twists and turns lead me to her work by way of the viewer's activity, and how we may develop critical positions of our consumptive environment depending on the grids of natural, woven existence.  Whether they be the perspective of the exploding cookie cutter house, the reconfigured white or black box, or the industrial, digitized loom. We (the audience) are participating from the confined corners of our roles- whether gendered, disaffected passersby, hedge-trimmers/stone masons of our built landscape, hair models, or fashion slaves to the mundane.  Our exhausted exuberance is mediated by the return to (the) work of watching.  

What is our current state of Mind?    

If, according to Christine Ross [3], we (culture) are emerging from a sleep-altered state of depression from the turn of the late teens (late 20th ac.e.) into our early twenties (00's) [4,5], have we now awakened to a melancholic resistance that will oust us from our tweed comforters, or will we explode into a frantic, emotional insurrection beyond the tenacious mundane? How can an activated viewer reclaim the repetitive industrial political loom for our own formal living or organized aesthetic protest? Perhaps by breaking apart the toy and figuring out how it turns. 

[3] Christine Ross "Vision and Insufficiency at the Turn of the Millennium: Rosemarie Trockel's Distracted Eye" October, Spring 2001

[4] Rosemarie Trockel (film still from Sleepingpill) "Eye, Sleepingpill, Kinderspielplatz" 1999 Venice Biennale Installation 

[5] Thomas Schmitt film still on Rosemarie Trockel's 2000 video "I Don't Kehr"