Eight Sentences On Metaconceptual Art
A sentence sequence after Sol LeWitt that frames Metaconceptual Art as a field of form, institution, market, history, medium, access, and life.
Works on view
Artworks
The works are not only images. They are propositions, interfaces, diagrams, metadata, and systems that make the conditions of art visible.
Initial register
Six Works
A compact public register: the canonical sentence sequence, a 2009 born-digital conceptual work, image studies, an emblem, and the graph as a site-native work, each with its own page, metadata, and conceptual relations. Each work also publishes a Linked Art (CIDOC-CRM) representation, the museum data standard, so the collection can be read as linked data.
www.wtfisart.com
A born-digital Metaconceptual Art work: a website built and owned by Sun & Rain Works around 2009, in connection with its Sotheby's Photographs auction engagement (sale N08533), and designated by the artist as part of the conceptual work The Auction as Artwork.
Construction of the Museum as Concept
The museum appears inside the artwork as something still being built. Institutional authority is shown as architecture, ornament, labor, scaffolding, and frame.
Art Market Reform
A visual anchor for the project: art, price, reform, and institutional display held together as one unstable field.
Eightfold Sprocket
An emblem for the eight-sentence proposition set: a small mechanical sign for repetition, rotation, and system.
Movement Graph
The knowledge graph treated as an artwork: relations, authorities, claims, and viewers arranged as a walkable system.