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MoMA Wants Your Junk for New "Garage Sale" Exhibit
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Carrie Dennis
Published May 21, 2012
Modified May 21, 2012
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Travelling Garage Sale. La Mamelle Gallery, San Francisco, USA, 1977
To blur the line between art and the mundane even further, MoMA has put out a call for all your unwanted objects in preparation for an upcoming multimedia installation and performance "garage sale." The museum has been accepting donations of "strange items" over the last two weekends and will continue to receive your stuff the next two weekends as well. And almost anything goes except the usual perishables, weapons, liquids, hazardous materials... and naturally anything that has ever housed a family of bed bugs.
In the ultimate participatory art performance, the artist, Brooklyn-native Martha Rosler, will then display and sell the amassed treasures in the The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium from November 17th to 30th, 2012. However, it's unclear if the prices will be garage sale prices, or art prices.
Meta-Monumental Garage Sale is the latest iteration of the project—the first, Monumental Garage Sale, was in 1973. "By its nature the Garage Sale cannot be a historical work because commerce is always located in the present," Rosler says.
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