The Labor of Others' is a sculptural project that places itself in the whirlpool of intellectual property rights questions.
In this series the acts of conceiving and fabricating the work of art are removed from me, the artist. I have utilized, or stolen, both the labor and the design sensibility of another species, the beaver.
Close examination of these sculptures reveals subtle variations on a simple theme--a wide groove chewed around a cylinder that defines two intersecting cones. The plane of intersection remains ambiguous. This is the beaver’s traditional and extremely characteristic form.
As a human artist I have appropriated fully and completely the claim of agency, as well as all credit and reward due, to the maker of these works.The ‘Labor of Others’ project requires the initiation and pursuit of a copyright infringement claim against the artist David Nizio, who, without providing notice or compensation to me, has stolen my forms and imagery, and publicly exhibited a group of sculptures utilizing these forms (see Snowman 1, detail above) at Postmasters Gallery in New York City, from April 14 through May 21, 2011.
The Labor of Others' is a sculptural project that places itself in the whirlpool of intellectual property rights questions.
In this series the acts of conceiving and fabricating the work of art are removed from me, the artist. I have utilized, or stolen, both the labor and the design sensibility of another species, the beaver.
Close examination of these sculptures reveals subtle variations on a simple theme--a wide groove chewed around a cylinder that defines two intersecting cones. The plane of intersection remains ambiguous. This is the beaver’s traditional and extremely characteristic form.
As a human artist I have appropriated fully and completely the claim of agency, as well as all credit and reward due, to the maker of these works.The ‘Labor of Others’ project requires the initiation and pursuit of a copyright infringement claim against the artist David Nizio, who, without providing notice or compensation to me, has stolen my forms and imagery, and publicly exhibited a group of sculptures utilizing these forms (see Snowman 1, detail above) at Postmasters Gallery in New York City, from April 14 through May 21, 2011.