The boundless forwarding parcel
This unrealized project would consist in having a postal strongbox being shipped throughout the DHL or FedEx international express mail services endlessly. After it reaches a destination, the box is automatically shipped to the next one following the alphabetical order of the company's 120000 available destinations around the world. It's tracking number would become it's title, by which anyone could track it's continuous path. If over damaged, it would be put into a slightly larger container and send again.
Each time the piece is invited to be exhibited, it is instead shipped there for the duration of the show, then put back into motion to where it came from. In the 19th century Karl Marx described commodity fetishism as an important component of capitalism. The resulting object would probably and increasingly become a sort of contemporary fetish, an idol of restlessness: an inanimate object charged by movement and surreal qualities gained through a path no one can fully comprehend nor fathom.
Eric van Hove +32497618331 studio: 23 avenue paul deschanel, 1030 Brussels, Belgium www.transcri.be
The boundless forwarding parcel
This unrealized project would consist in having a postal strongbox being shipped throughout the DHL or FedEx international express mail services endlessly. After it reaches a destination, the box is automatically shipped to the next one following the alphabetical order of the company's 120000 available destinations around the world. It's tracking number would become it's title, by which anyone could track it's continuous path. If over damaged, it would be put into a slightly larger container and send again.
Each time the piece is invited to be exhibited, it is instead shipped there for the duration of the show, then put back into motion to where it came from. In the 19th century Karl Marx described commodity fetishism as an important component of capitalism. The resulting object would probably and increasingly become a sort of contemporary fetish, an idol of restlessness: an inanimate object charged by movement and surreal qualities gained through a path no one can fully comprehend nor fathom.
Eric van Hove +32497618331 studio: 23 avenue paul deschanel, 1030 Brussels, Belgium www.transcri.be