{"id":1469,"date":"2010-01-20T23:37:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T07:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/01\/caleb_larsen_-_art_as_transact\/"},"modified":"2010-01-20T23:37:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T07:37:18","slug":"caleb_larsen_-_art_as_transact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/01\/caleb_larsen_-_art_as_transact.html","title":{"rendered":"Caleb Larsen – art as transactional residue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Calvin Coolidge<\/p>\n

The business of America is business.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Andy Warhol<\/p>\n

Making money is art and working is art and good
\nbusiness is the best art.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Caleb Larsen<\/p>\n

Pay my (art-related) credit card debt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n\"caleblarsentransfer.jpg\" <\/p>\n

In
\nthe 1970s, Sol LeWitt placed a drawing in a box which he buried and
\nwouldn’t say where. The absence of the drawing did not deter its sale,
\nin the form of  a certificate of ownership. If the same reasoning
\napplied to cars, you could pay for the car and ride away on the credit
\ncard receipt. Unlike war, cars, cats, weather and the kitchen table,
\nart still functions even if it’s only in the mind. <\/p>\n

All art has its own niche. Larsen has staked his in a narrow band of comic process.

A Tool To Deceive And Slaughte<\/i>r
\nis a black box that will always be attempting to auction itself off on
\neBay. The collector who acquires it has to agree to relinquish it if
\nanother offers a bid higher than the owner’s purchase price, and so on,
\nforever. It’s an answer of sorts to Robert Morris’s Box With the Sound of Its Own Making<\/i> from 1961, owned by the Seattle Art Museum<\/a>. Larsen’s is a box with the sound of its own selling.<\/p>\n

\"caleblarsenbox.jpg\"The Entire Contents Of The Pen<\/i>
\n(1,604 Linear Foot Drawing). Starting with a fresh fountain pen, Larsen
\ndrew on an 9 x 12 inch piece of paper until the pen ran dry. <\/p>\n

The drawing now contains everything that the pen once was. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Looks a bit like a Clyfford Still<\/a>, updated by means of an obsessive-compulsive back story and, of course, the pen.<\/p>\n

\"caleblarsenpenimage.jpg\"My favorite scam<\/strike>
\nsculpture in the show is titled, $10,000 Sculpture (In Progress). It
\naccepts your money, and gives you nothing back. I slipped it three
\ndollar bills before coming to my senses. When there is so much in life
\nthat disappoints in spite of our best efforts, it is positively
\nexhilarating to volunteer to be scammed, eyes wide open. <\/p>\n

\"caleblarsen$bill.jpg\"At Lawrimore Projec<\/a>t through Feb. 13.<\/div>\n

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