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Michael Blum

abstract:

potlatch.doc <printed matter for waiting rooms>

potlatch.doc is a book specifically designed for waiting rooms. Following the visual paradigm of loss and exploring related issues through a diverse imagery (advertisement, photo-journalism, snapshot, illustration, children books, archive...), it unravels as a re-reading of an encyclopedic imagery of loss, in a waiting situation ironically considered as a potlatch, a waste, an unproductive expense.

The book is being given out for free to waiting rooms, in public institutions or in the private sector, as well as any other space where waiting is involved. The aim is to reach any waiting room equipped with a coffe table - and beyond, a random and untargeted readership that only the situation defines. Thus in a given city, where potlatch.doc is available in several waiting rooms, a basic map of boredom appears.

The distribution knows of no geographical limitations. But since it has been operated by the artist alone, on a very intimate scale, deliveries took place only where Blum happened to be since spring 2003.

So far, potlatch.doc is available in public buildings, airports and airplanes, train stations and trains, bus stops, unemployment agencies, hospitals, doctors practices, beauty saloons, shops, notaries, gas stations, embassies, banks, post offices, insurance companies in Paris, Nantes, Verdun, Salzburg, Vienna, Mariazell, Zurndorf, Verona, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Helsinki, Johannesburg and Cape Town. And more soon.

This mode of distribution seeks to connect with the content of the publication, the context of reading and with an alternative strategy to market-driven book-selling by emphasizing loss as a positive factor. Similar to the actual potlatch where wealth is created through destruction, potlatch.doc aims at turning a loss of time into a gain of awareness, in the context of a post-industrial society where leisure and newly discovered free-time open up new fields of reflexion.

bio:

Michael Blum (Jerusalem, 1966) is an artist based in Paris and Vienna.
After studying history in Paris and photography at ENP Arles (F), he developed a body of work - video, photography, publications, installations... - that aims at critically and humourously re-reading culture and history.
After dealing with language and classification systems untill 1997, Blum then focused on the field of political economy, looking for new ways to critically address a system that leaves no more 'outside' space.
Some works attempted to find contemporary resonances for Marx (Wandering Marxwards, 1999), Adam Smith and leftist thinking (Homo Eoconomicus, 2000) or Marcel Mauss, Georges Bataille and the economy of gift (potlatch.doc, 2002).
Blum also tryied to confront theory with very concrete and personal situations in a global context, ie. learning Spanish from ex-street kids in Mexico City (The Language Course, collaboration w. Carlos Amorales and the NGO El Caracol, 2000-01), travelling his Nike sneakers back to Indonesia (My Sneakers, 2001) or collecting stories related to his house in Cape Town (17 Aandbloem Street, 2003).
His videos have been screened in numerous festivals : Viper (Basel), World Wide Video Festival (Amsterdam), Videochroniques (Marseille), Festival du nouveau cinéma et des nouveaux medias (Montréal), as well as in art institutions like the MIT List Visual Art Center, Boston, Ottawa Art Gallery, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais, or CAC, Vilnius. Some of his works now belong to public collections in Paris (Fonds National d'Art Contemporain and MNAM Centre Georges-Pompidou) and Vienna (Depot).

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