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DUSTIN KUHNS
POSITION STATEMENT ↓ART AND COMMODITY ARE INSEPARABLE FORMS.
Dustin Kuhns is an art-worker, aspiring merchandiser and lessor. The focus of all his work is the commodity form: the structures that make art ownable, exchangeable, displayable, leasable, inherited, merchandised, or withheld.
No originals are sold. His art remains his property and is intended to pass only to his children. Installations and works may be leased without transfer of ownership. Merchandise, design or installation labor may be purchased or contracted.
FOUR POSITIONAL ESSAYS BY DUSTIN KUHNS.
THE PARABLE OF THE ANAMORPHIC CRICKET PITCH ADVERT
“The power lies in its compression. The danger lies in its omission.”READ ESSAY →
THE HOLLOW GAZE OF VALUE
“Value is now created as a byproduct of the performance of appearances.”READ ESSAY →
LOST IN CURATION
“The market loves curation because it is a crutch which circumscribes and perpetuates the consumption cycle.”READ ESSAY →
A VALUATION OF THOUGHT
“Thinking is not as simple as we think it is.”READ ESSAY →
MERCHANDISECOMING SOON.
ASSETS ACCUMULATE. MERCHANDISE CIRCULATES.
