Someone's Junk is Someone else's Treasure
Contemporary artist Koki Tanaka sets up a booth at a Los Angeles flea market to sell palm fronds. "I tried to bring something very extreme into the flea-market context. I picked the palm fronds because they are the most useless things in California – they’re what we have to sweep away after a windy day. It was an experiment in registering people’s reaction to a fundamental question about the value of objects. And I was referencing two historical pieces: David Hammons’s Bliz-aard Ball Sale [1983], where he sold snowballs during winter in New York; and a Japanese manga called Munou no Hito [A Worthless Person, 1985], in which the protagonist sells stones by the riverside – stones being sold alongside stones. So both shared quite similar ideas." - Koki Tanaka
Year: 2011
Genre: Documentary
Studio: The BOX Gallery
Director: Koki Tanaka
Cast: Koki Tanaka
Crew: Naotaka Hiro (Camera Operator), Mara MacCarthy (Coordinating Producer), Hilary Graves (Coordinating Producer), Jason Underhill (Coordinating Producer), Taku Unami (Sound Mixer), Koki Tanaka (Director)
Runtime: 11 minutes
Release: Jan 09, 2011
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Country: United States of America
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Keyword : art
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