Thurs. 21/10 - Sat. 6/11 2010

Blind Pig

Webby, Daniel

// Opening night performance from 6.30pm

• All welcome. Refreshments provided.

• Adam Smith reckons "The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to those who want to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it".

• Karl Marx would add (indirectly quoted) "relations between people take form as the properties of things".

• Of properties ascribed to things, value, as determination of utility or worth, is an attribute expressed in multiple forms.

• Diamonds and water etc.

• Within a specific historical context value can be mapped on a scale of ascendancy. This map, in turn, can be seen as an objectified schema for social relations.

• Capitalism and alienation etc.

• If a thing's value is uncertain, social signification in relation to the thing is likewise.

• Within this uncertainty an opportunity exists to re-map both the value of things and their prefiguration.

• It is necessary to inhabit a thing in order for its potential as alternative prefiguration to be explored.

• The gallery provides a context within which, through the presentation of an action and things, I seek to explore an alternative prefiguration of value.

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