INSTITUTE OF
CONTEMPORARY ARTS
COLLECTING BOX 1980
The director had jokingly suggested that I make them a collecting box at a party and was
rather surprised when I turned up with it, several months later. However, it stayed in
place for over ten years. It also persuaded the ICA to let me have a small exhibition of
my coin operated machines in 1981 - though I never felt I fitted in with their vision of
contemporary art.
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When a coin is inserted, the artist looks at you and
moves his hand aside to reveal a smile (see left) |
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It reappeared in 2006, for sale on a
Spitalfields market stall.
I've been told the ICA were embarrassed as they'd never sold it, but they
haven't taken any action so I guess its 'finders keepers'.
More
collecting boxes Abandoning the fine art world
ICA show catalogue (170k)
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