For his
Spike edition, the artist Seth Price created an 8-track LP. The LP's back cover features a photo of the artist's last-minute Halloween costume from 2018, when he dressed as the Marciano Museum, his spooky masked persona foreshadowing the grisly detail that the museum would close, after laying off its entire staff for their attempt to unionise, almost exactly one year later.
Through paintings, sculpture, video, and media work, Seth Price (*1973
East Jerusalem, lives and works in New York) underlines the production
strategies, dissemination modes, and valuation patterns of art. His
appropriationist work, which he rather calls a “redistribution” of (often)
pirated materials, disrupts the operations of commodity culture. Among
his formats and tactics one should mention the recycling of iconic
illustrations, reduplication (from digital to vacuum-formed techniques),
the reenactment of projects, and the collaborative actions with
Continuous Project (formed in 2003 with
Bettina Funcke,
Wade Guyton,
and Joseph Logan) or other artists.
